We performed a comparison between vCenter Orchestrator and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Pega, Appian and others in Process Automation."The solution is stable."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."
"We can scale the solution."
"I am impressed with the tool's easiness to work with VMware solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is complete, and you don't need any add-ons."
"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"We receive an overview from the dashboard of what is happening in our environment."
"We like that we are able to combine all infrastructure monitoring using this solution, meaning we receive analytics from across our whole network."
"Some of the forecasting features give us a picture of, let's say, in six months I know that my storage will be full, or I'll be out of resources. It gives us a little bit of forecasting."
"The newer version is a lot easier to use than the older version. It's one of the easiest ways to obtain some insight into vCenter."
"We went from using industry standard KPIs to going to a complete on-demand model based on the algorithms from vRealize Operations. It has enabled us to drive more utilization out of our existing compute infrastructure to the point where, for a period of six months, we didn't purchase a single server or any additional compute. We were able to continue to sweat our existing assets."
"vROps' best feature is the easy integration with the environment."
"Based on those usage patterns, we can determine when our best maintenance times are and when we need to scale things up or down."
"Through the trending analysis that we can do, it allowed us to quickly and easily right-size the capacity from a cluster."
"There are no good manuals or guidelines on integrations. Hence, you need to be asking someone."
"This solution needs to have more built-in workflows."
"It is practically difficult at this stage to really comment on the improvisations of V central. But more tech events and PoC cases would help the EA to design better solutions and utilization."
"I believe vCenter Orchestrator should be part of VMware vSphere's basic bundle. As a product, vCenter Orchestrator should not be licensed at all because the world has progressed way beyond what it can offer."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
"The solution needs to integrate with Cloud facilities like AWS and Azure."
"The product lacks GUIs. The tool should have more GUIs available, along with easier product documentation."
"Storage has room for improvement. It's a big problem for our solution. The interface also needs improvement, it should be simplified."
"vROps is user-friendly, but configuration is a little bit hard. It is also hard if you want to customize it for your data center, especially without VMware training. The user interface should be improved so that a new user can easily configure it for his own use."
"The tool is user-friendly, but you need to study to learn about the many features that the tool offers. It is not a tool that you can just start to work with when it comes to capacity planning. You need to study the documentation."
"While the initial setup was somewhat straightforward, there is some complexity. Going forward, I would like there to be more clarity in the process. Because to complete the setup process, our team had to open up a case with the technical support, and they had to guide us through the process."
"They should make it easier to find those granular things that you're always looking for. You're always running into a situation where you want to use the tool to figure out a problem, but the amount of effort needed to delve into vROps and find the exact metric you're looking for is always so difficult."
"The solution can improve by offering more flexible integration with other platforms or products, such as Hyper-V or Azure. Not everyone uses VMware. It would be beneficial to have a more open-source concept for integration, creating more visibility across multiple clouds."
"There's a lot of stuff we want to do that we can't. I would advise someone considering this solution to take classes and get a lot of information because this solution may look simple but it's a lot harder than it seems."
"It can get a bit complex when getting into the endpoint monitoring during setup."
"It was not intuitive and user-friendly in the versions leading up to 6.5."
vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. 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 Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director, ServiceNow Orchestration and SaltStack, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and ServiceNow IT Operations Management.
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