We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Operations and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, IBM, Nutanix and others in Virtualization Management Tools."Valuable features include the PowerCLI module and the ability to do scripting, to pull information out, to simplify reporting and troubleshooting. Being able to gather metrics, or to gather information to alert on it, or to be able to present it in a report, is crucial because, even if the interface is fast, we want to be able to do everything faster through automation. The fact that that's being developed more and more is very important."
"The most valuable feature is the metrics, the ability to deep-dive into any issue we may be having from a virtual machine to a data store. Latency is a big thing - it's able to give us that metric pretty swiftly. And with our custom dashboards, it's all readily available."
"I can go back a little bit, a week or a month, look at the history, to troubleshoot."
"The initial setup process is fairly simple, especially if you are only setting up a standalone instance."
"It is stable. I don't have any problems with this product and upgrades are very easy because it's just click two buttons and next, next, next, finish."
"It gives us deep insight into the entire VDI environment, where we have of over 18,000 VDIs. It helps us keep up on uptime, gives us real-time monitoring, tracking, and troubleshooting."
"It has made a big difference in the time to troubleshoot. It's significantly reduced it."
"It helps an organization quickly create test and dev environments for developers to come up with new software and patch tests."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"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 way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"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."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"I rated this solution an eight and not a ten because we work to give a multi-tenant product to our customers and vROps doesn't meet our needs."
"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."
"VMware could improve the way VROps forwards critical alerts to Microsoft Teams."
"I would like to see more functionality. I would also like to see better support, because the pack that we use, the Horizon, it's an additional pack. It's not currently actually built by VMware, it's built by a separate company. When they merge the two, there will be better support in the future."
"We use a large installation of this solution with multiple nodes and so the setup was pretty complex."
"If this tool can integrate with other products, for example, those that monitor the network devices or any other storage devices, it will be very beneficial."
"We would like to see an improved licensing model to be set up for this solution. The current model charges per CPU, as opposed to being product-based, which would allow us to monitor our complete virtual infrastructure under a single license."
"Technical support is good, once you pass the first level."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"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."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"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."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". 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 Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and Nutanix Prism, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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