We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"
"The pricing is rather competitive right now."
"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."
"The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"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."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"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."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."
"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."
"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"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."
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VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 3rd in Cloud Cost Management with 9 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". 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 Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with Azure Cost Management, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations, Cloudability and Densify, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Automation.
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