We performed a comparison between vCloud Director and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the functionality that's available with Orchestrator. The platform stability stuff that I would be involved in worries me from the automation side because you have a lot less hands-on control of things. Price point, it kind of puts us off."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"Remote console (ability to control booting and OS installation process)."
"The initial setup was complex. There's a lot of things you have to factor in, like security, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and how to maintain the platform. It's something we still struggle with, but it's getting better."
"We like the basic operations that we can do with the VM such as restarting, rebooting, creating snapshots, and deleting snapshots."
"The self-service portal is the most valuable. We are acting as a service provider, so our customers can take care of their virtual data centers with the self-service portal. Therefore, we don't need staff for it."
"The initial installation and setup are very quick."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"It removes the guess work. It gives me real data and analysis in a very user-friendly way that I can show to my management without going deep into numbers."
"The stability in vRealize has been great. We've had no outages nor impacts. The upgrade process has been great so far."
"It's a great tool for monitoring and tracking data of our entire environment."
"vROps was the only tool which we found which was capable at the time to create customized dashboards."
"It gives the real-time info that we need to diagnose any problems that we have with our VDI infrastructure."
"The reports: Print any kind of reports or generate them, and send them to somebody if they say my VM is going very slow."
"Alerts and monitoring were most valuable. It was also pretty user-friendly and interactive. I was able to generate good reports in PDF and HTML formats, which was really helpful."
"It has made a big difference in the time to troubleshoot. It's significantly reduced it."
"The product installation process could be easier for new users as well."
"vRealize Orchestrator is an expensive tool."
"The solution should integrate with other cloud systems such as Azure ARC and OpenStack."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
"This is very simple in OpenShift. We are happy with vCloud in terms of the virtualization but not for redundancy and distribution."
"We are having a bit of a problem with vCloud Availability. We know that vRA has a new product, HCX. We would like to know about it, then migrate to the product."
"Cloud Director has room for improvement in many areas. One critical thing that comes to mind is the hyperscalers. They could be more seamlessly integrated into the hybrid cloud."
"At the beginning, the stability was not that good. The latest versions are much better."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the integration with Active Directory. Sometimes I need to log in to the application using my Active Directory account, instead of using the regular admin for vRealize Operations. If I want to deploy this tool to more users, I need that."
"If I could integrate with vCenter with vROps, then I could execute more things by managing vSphere from within vROps. That would be great."
"We have started to do containers and I would like to see a feature to monitor our container infrastructure. If we can do our monitoring and performance troubleshooting of them through this tool, that would be a nice-to-have."
"We would like better integration with the cloud because we use a multi-vendor cloud. We use AWS, which is fine, but we also use Azure and Google. We would like better plugins to those other two providers."
"There are some problems with integration, particularly with Slack, though these have been improved in the latest release."
"On a specific version, it has been stable. But the whole point of the tool is historical data and, twice now, we have lost all of our historical data, as we've tried to move to the next version of the tool. That really removes a lot of the functionality that we've purchased the tool for."
"I sure don't find the solution to be intuitive or user-friendly. It takes a lot of time to get familiar with the interface. You've got to spend a lot of time poking around there, it's not very user-friendly. There have been improvements over the versions but, even still, there is a pretty steep learning curve for the product, in my opinion. In the latest and greatest version, there has been quite a bit of a step up from the last version, as far as the user interface goes. they are making improvements. So that's positive."
vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 360 reviews. vCloud Director is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and CloudPhysics. See our VMware Aria Operations vs. vCloud Director report.
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