We performed a comparison between SkyKick Cloud Manager and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"You log in, you see everything that's happening right then. We can also export that, get information, print it out, show it to people. That's a big deal. People want to see that transparency. It's great that way."
"It helps an organization quickly create test and dev environments for developers to come up with new software and patch tests."
"The initial setup is quite easy and straightforward. The majority of the time, implementing vROps is not time-consuming."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to compare between AWS/Azure and the local cloud. When customers deploy something on the local cloud, with the same configuration that would apply to AWS or Azure, we can calculate the estimated cost difference between the local cloud and the public cloud. We do this kind of analysis for optimization and it is one of the best features of vROps."
"It has helped us reduce the time it takes to troubleshoot issues."
"From an IT department perspective, it does help in reducing the time to troubleshoot issues and in providing cost savings through higher capacity utilization."
"The solution has helped us improve quality of service to users, by giving alerts when different performance metrics get outside of their normal ranges. For example, I've had times when there have been memory leaks in applications and this solution has shown me as my memory usage gets outside of normal bounds. I'm able to find that and resolve it before my customers get back to me to tell me that there's a problem."
"VMware provides good support. We are a GSS customer which means that we have global support with a dedicated engineer from VMware's side so we have no issues with support."
"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."
"One way the solution could be improved, in my opinion: management packs, more native management packs with API."
"It's a little bit scattered. I have to go through a lot of steps to get everything in one place. I would like it that if you click on one cluster, you get all the information from the host, VMs, whatever is there. Sometimes I have to go to different places to get the information."
"From a personal perspective, I would like it made clearer what options are available in the suite that the customer is not using."
"There are some metrics that are not included in the canned set, that we've created. They call them super metrics in the tool, where you create your own metric. But the super metrics are not really reliable. It might be because we didn't create them correctly, although we did have help from VMware. They also don't translate into newer versions like a canned metric would. One of them is a vCPU to pCPU ratio. That's one that is missing, which should be very simple for them to collect."
"Having the capability to manage the enterprise display would be highly beneficial."
"There is a learning curve because it's a complex program. There is a lot to consume in terms of the metrics inside of it. That's the biggest hurdle: trying to understand all the places to go look."
"The customization of reports isn't as great as I would like to see it. There are some canned ones."
"We're on the 6.0 version, so it does lack a little bit of that intuitiveness. You have to have some experience with VMware to get around inside of it."
SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 360 reviews. SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and Nutanix Prism.
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