We performed a comparison between VCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Automation based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware Aria Automation helps organizations improve IT agility, productivity, and efficiency to remain competitive and secure in the marketplace. Users feel it is a complete solution that is stable, easy to manage, and performs very well.
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation."
"We can manage and relocate resources easily."
"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"The open, flexible architecture has brought in the agile computing environment along with better Dr capabilities. Automation management and operational tasks across VMware and third-party applications, like our HMIS and other business productivity applications, have delivered peace of mind."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"The solution is pretty stable and reliable."
"The setup was complex in many ways. The first reason is that we have many teams who work on it so it gets complicated gathering all of the people. The second reason is that it can be complicated to install it quickly, within a reasonable amount of time."
"Having an enterprise service catalog and being able to automate various parts of our infrastructure are among the most important components."
"It is very stable, especially for high availability features."
"We've seen that typically, the people who are provisioning VDIs and server VMs can now utilize most of their time towards other projects and moving the environment forward, instead of just hammering out virtual machines all day."
"The self-service capabilities are by far the best that we've seen in terms of features. If the user is being able to log in and make requests himself, from the onboarding process all the way to the end, that's very helpful."
"It provides visibility into the VM space."
"The IT support for developers is nice as well because they are able to manage the environment themselves."
"To manage when VM's aren't being used, we have it set up so that it will auto-destroy them after a certain amount of time, obviously with permission from the user who owns it."
"I would like to see a greater ability to do mobile administration."
"There can be compatibility issues."
"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."
"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."
"It could be integrated with third-party hypervisors."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"We encounter challenges related to the renewal of support subscriptions."
"We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable."
"My impression of its stability is "middle of the road." We've had some issues where it seems to be a little bit sensitive, where deployments fail and we don't really know a specific reason why. We'll dig through logs and try and figure out what's going on, but it's not always apparent as to why it failed. And you can kick it off again and it'll succeed. So stability could be better."
"The connectivity between VMs is easy, but they can be made more effective if we have a single proof point where we can configure all the biggest data at a single point."
"It was a complex setup. We had to use the consultant from VMware to make the solution work well."
"The setup needs coding. It's not easy. It's not straightforward."
"I would like them to improve the product training."
"I don't find the solution to be intuitive and user- friendly. The GUI is really complicated. Tracking down logs and errors is very hard. Then, it takes a specialized JavaScript person to build. Also, I'm not sure how the upgrades are going now, but they definitely need to evolve the upgrade process. Finally, the logs are very generalized. Giving more of an indicator of what's actually going wrong, rather than just a generic error code, would help."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"vRealize Automation on the back-end is still a little complicated. It has a lot of moving pieces, simplifying that from a pure infrastructure point of view would be a good thing. I would then like to have more out-of-the-box functionality and integrations with VMware components."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 132 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and SaltStack.
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