We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Automation and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"Even with the virtualization, it would take us at least three or four days to create a VM. With vRA we have brought that down to seven minutes. The solution has helped increase infrastructure, agility, speed of provisioning, time to market, application agility. Everything got super fast."
"The customer can set up multiple machine blueprints. Therefore, we are able to customize the template of three machines, then the customer can deploy without knowing anything about the IT business."
"value; It has provided my development team a pure self-service portal. We deploy thousands of machines and reclaim. So, their time to business, and their time to market has been improved exponentially."
"Our users can order VMs using the API."
"We have also found it to be intuitive and user-friendly. It's something that, because it has the workflows that are very easily graphed out - you can follow what it's doing, it's very picturesque, you can see what it's doing easily - it's something that you can hand over to a user who is not familiar with it and they can wrap their brain around it pretty quickly."
"The product's most valuable features are ease of automation."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"It needs to be more dynamic with variable customization to make new workloads more reliable. It also needs to be faster. We are exploring vRA version 8 right now and maybe what I'm requesting is available in the new version, but we haven't yet explored it fully."
"The solution is intuitive, but not necessarily user-friendly. In particular, it's the documentation. It's a lot of going-through-the-weeds types of scenarios. There is just an abundance of information, so it's a matter of understanding how the objects or the relationships exist, and then, obviously, being able to access that information and knowing how to make use of it."
"VMware needs to make it to where it is not as custom. Right now, you spend a lot of time making the services work. In order to get it up and running initially, that takes time."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"The high price of the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We are migrating from vRA version 7 to 8, but the migration is really hectic and time-consuming. There are no straightforward paths to migrate. We are doing an entirely new deployment to go to vRA version 8.0, then somehow get all of the VMs to vRA 8.0. Therefore, it would have been great if VMware had some solutions to upgrade from vRA 7 to 8 seamlessly. This includes the management of all the objects or VMs from the older version. Unfortunately, it is not there."
"The setup is difficult. You need a technical person to help you set it up."
"We upgraded twice. The last upgrade was a bit problematic."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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