We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Automation and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."vRA provides that single pane of glass for our cloud tenants to deploy, monitor, access, and manage their VMs/guest operating systems."
"The most valuable features are the Catalog View and the access control business group. Access provisioning is probably the main use case for us, so we can separate access to different Catalog items among the different business groups and have that tied back to our AD LDAP systems."
"The operations manager does a fantastic job on the front end because it includes on-premises and cloud use cases."
"usability; It's very user-friendly. It is not hard to go and find things. There is a one-click Help that you can use to find all the documentation you need to manage it."
"Instead of deploying a VM from a template and going through the process of configuring that VM, with vRA we're able to click once and it does everything: grabs an IP, joins it to the domain, loads whatever configuration agents are needed. It does all of that without manual intervention."
"The product's most valuable features are ease of automation."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The product saves a lot of time and cost for us. It has valuable features for creating a playbook."
"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."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"I want to see HTML5. I want to get rid of JavaScript... we have a lot of issues with Java crashing when we're using vCenter. I obviously don't want that to happen with the vRealize Automation and Orchestrator side."
"Maintaining the product requires effort and a good understanding of the environment, including how to set up the codes and other configurations. Pricing needs to be improved to improve the customer penetration."
"We had a lot of issues at first. Especially with doing any kind of upgrades, it was a complete tear-down and a complete rebuild of all the Blueprints. The upgrade process was not easy or intuitive at all. But it seems to be getting better."
"The basic support is not there for Google Cloud and Azure. They are unable to provision nor do cost controls. Google is still left out. It is great that they have done AWS, but we are a retailer which means nothing to us because it is a competitor. Azure is good, but Google is where a lot of our development environments are."
"With the workflow aspect, which has manual intervention, a policy needs to be approved by somebody. There could be better management of that piece with better templates. It is like a workflow engine, but does not have enough example templates to do certain things. A lot of people waste a lot of time trying to figure out the same thing, and everybody is trying to figure out the same thing, e.g., how to make a MySQL cluster in a Windows environment?"
"The stability on the 6.2 version is very bad. It crashes. VMware tech support knows the IIS component is a bit buggy."
"The back-end has a steep learning curve."
"It has some limitations for scalability, especially for remote data center management. For some components, everything need to be centralized."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"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."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
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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