I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is low price and ten is high price. 

This is another area of improvement. The price can be more competitive. I resell to the end customer. So, if I am reselling a product and cannot put my margin comfortably on top of what I get from VMware. It becomes really difficult for me. So, I have to really squeeze my margin.

I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

They should provide one license for all the sub-products. For example, if we purchase VMware Aria Automation, they should also add a license for VMware vRealize Automation. It is tricky to upgrade and manage multiple licenses together. We have to pay additional costs for support services for critical issues.

VMware Aria Automation is expensive. They offer a bundle of products included, which we have to pay unnecessarily without a use case. I rate its pricing a ten out of ten.

I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with ten being very expensive. 

Customers say this solution is costlier compared to its competitors.

The solution is pretty expensive. If you can afford it, you should absolutely buy the solution because it provides good workload management. 

If you have oversized or undersized workloads, then the solution catches them and gives you auto-scaling suggestions that save you a ton of money. The solution will even automate some of the work to keep performance and resources at  optimal levels. It saves you from the cost of expanding your infrastructure. 

There are various licensing models that can be a bit confusing. 

This is an expensive product and the high price is starting to become an issue for us.

We pay a license based on volume. I rate VMware vRealize Automation four out of 10. The license is quite expensive. 

The tool is expensive since it is an enterprise product. The cost and the business requirement must be justified before deploying the solution in the cloud environment.

There is confusion between licensing levels. There are three different licensed versions of vRealize Automation, and there are different things which can happen in each of them. This is confusing.

vRealize automation really should be a front door to the whole VMware suite of products. The front door to a cloud: Just open it up, and let everyone do whatever they need.

We built everything from scratch, it ended up being very costly. 

It is an expensive product. After VMware's acquisition by Broadcom, there was a rise in the price of VMware Aria Automation. My company's procurement team handles the pricing part.

From a budget point of view, the pricing is a bit on the higher side.

We did need to purchase some new hardware for the cloud because we wanted to upgrade it.

It's not cheap. It would be more expensive to get an alternative though because we'd have to buy the extras for it.

I'm very interested in the integration with Puppet. However, my organization doesn't have the funding for something like Puppet right now. If VMware would integrate that feature set (Puppet) into vRA. That would be very awesome.

The corporate government works a little differently. We had put out a set requirements and other vendors come and bid on it, then we pick the vendor who best met our requirements and has the lowest cost.

Better pricing is always handy, but I feel it's at the right price point.

I would advise heavy VMware shops to look into getting suite licensing and leverage the VMware ELA framework if possible. Additionally, I would highly recommend that NSX is purchased in conjunction with vRealize Automation in order to get the most out of the product.

The pricing is very high.

If you are looking at implementing the product, hire a Dev team.

Before, we had the vCloud suites, then suddenly we split out to NSX and had to pay two licenses extra just fenced because we don't use microsegmentation for firewall rollouts. Therefore, a simplified version for small businesses would be good.

Our customers feel it's very costly. But when VMware is providing so many things, the cost is on par with what they're offering.

It's really about whether you want to buy the full solution today and utilize it, or if you want to bring in a lot of people, integrate, and spend on that. Overall, if you look at five to ten years of time, either you buy the full solution or you will bring in the people and try save some costs, but it is going to be almost the same.

It is pricey for what you get. Nutanix is cheaper.

From the customer perspective, the value was worth it.

Licensing's expensive.

Look into it heavily when researching similar products, especially if you're looking in terms of budgetary issues with different servers or how you're gonna scale something. It allows you to have pretty concrete data to show to your management.

Be informed and reach out to your VMware sales rep to answer questions.

I don't know anything about this.

The vRealize Suite, it is a very expensive product. However, with all the things it did offer us, in the long run, it made sense for us, because we got to cut down a lot of our public cloud costs due to on-premise solutions.

Pricing needs to be improved.

It's worth each penny.

Compared to other vendors in the market the licensing cost is OK.

As an engineer, I didn’t look at the pricing model.