VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We use vROps a lot to do trouble shooting, especially in terms of performance. Also, it helps to utilize our resources, because we can help if the machine is oversized or if it's undersized.

We've gone from having no insight (into the type of resources which we're using) to a lot of insight. This provides a lot of different reports as to how to keep our business running efficiently.

Possibility getting the additional features onto physical boxes in the next release.

It's stable. It doesn't crash.

We like the scalability of the product so far.

We're using another professional services group for this.

We invested in this solution because them management team asked, "Why are you spending this much money on hardware when you're not using it?"

I was involved in the initial setup. It was complex.

We have 11 different pieces of the VMR environment. We had to go through and upgrade them all getting everything done in the right order.

The product is useful and it helps, especially going into a conversation with other IT staff and management.

It's valuable because it helps us look at our performance statistics for our environment.

Where the product could improve would be the UI. They just changed the UI on it in this last version, but they could always expand on that, make it a little bit more in depth.

Very stable product, no downtime.

It's very scalable and it will meet our needs going forward.

The tech support is good. I haven't actually had to call tech support on the product as of yet.

We were previously using SolarWinds and we switched to this because it's made by VMware and it works better with VMware than our SolarWinds solution did.

It's simple to deploy, it's an appliance. You just go into your vCenter and deploy it and it's up and going pretty much. You go in and you put in your information for your vCenters, it goes out and collects the data and you're off and going.

I rate it an eight out of 10, because there's always room for improvement, but overall I'm very happy with it.

The whole feature set, to be honest. Monitoring and, for me, the performance analysis.

It helps us to create better reports of historical analysis, of performance data, and do better capacity planning.

More stable upgrades, if that's a feature. Had some problems so far. Also, more reliable failure detection and more realistic out-of-the-box simplicity.

Quite good.

Could be better, to be honest.

It was okay. I'm not always able to get to the right person. It takes a while. Once I do reach the right person they are usually knowledgeable.

I stumbled into VMware and never got out, to be honest. It's been cool technology for multiple years.

It was straightforward.

We are the partner so we implement.

Nutanix, Rubrik, Cohesity.

When choosing a vendor the most important criteria are experience, maturity and, probably, documentation.

I would advise you get training because it's not so easy to start with and not get lost in vROps. Also, have everything ready the partner tells you to have and have straight expectations about what a solution does and does not do.

• Custom dashboard
• Out-band (get alert in a text file)
• Capacity planner

• Capacity planning
• Alerts dashboard
• Get all the alerts from the external network and use ELK to show them in the production environment.

There was a collection bug and some alert bugs (didn’t show all the alerts and popped up fake alarms).

I’ve used this for four years: three years with vCOps 5.x and one year with vROps 6.x.

We have encountered stability issues. I redeployed the cluster twice.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is 8/10.

Installation is simple.

We checked three solutions and we chose vROps for our environment.

Read the installation guide and tech blogs.

My main uses are monitoring performance reports and connecting to the VMware login site.

vROps has helped us monitor our VMs and track where problems are in the network.

The most valuable features are the alerts and dashboard, and that the product is simple to use, configure, and upgrade.

There are some problems with integration, particularly with Slack, though these have been improved in the latest release.

I've been using this solution for two years.

This is a stable solution.

vROps is scalable - you can change the resources for it as much as you want.

In general, the technical team are good - however, my latest experiences have not been as good because some of the team members lack experience and can't help with your problem.

The initial setup is easy and takes about four hours.

We implemented using an in-house team.

We use a one-time license for vROps and have not had any additional costs.

I would rate this solution as eight out of ten.

The dashboard: Create your own dashboard and it will give you the right result that you want to see. It's very usable. It shows you many tricks that you can use. It provides you with what you are trying to search for.

Saves us lots of money.

Monitoring:

• Regular stuff, such as if machines are up or down.
• The CPU and how it is working.

I didn't scale it.

I haven't used it.

If you have enough money to go to an enterprise company, don't go to another company. Use VMware. Other companies make a similar solution, but not as great.

I don't think there is another company that makes cables better than VMware.

The most important criteria for choosing a vendor:

• Support
• Reputation of the vendor.

Being able to get, at a glance:

•  An overview of your environment
• The resources that you have available
• If there are any outstanding issues

It allows us to give our end users performance data. They may ask about network utilization, compute utilization, or storage utilization. We're able to get that information in a central location and give it to our end users when they request it.

I would like to see more multi-tenant support. I know that multi-tenant support was added recently, but expanding on that would be helpful for us.

Overall, it's pretty stable. I haven't had any stability issues with the product.

I haven't really had to scale it, so I can't comment on that.

We weren’t using anything previously, but we started using it in our cloud environment. That's where we really identified a need for it. It also comes with the vCloud suite of applications. We deployed it because it comes with the vCloud suite.

I was involved in the setup and it was really straightforward. It's like any other virtual appliance. You just deploy it and it just works.

It's really a no-brainer. It really should be deployed in any fairly large VMware environment.