In terms of monitoring and security, it's that we get alerted. We set up a system through another appliance, which is integrated with vRealize Operations for the logs, granular investigation, local analysis, and such.

The real-time log monitoring feature is minimal as we delve into logs primarily for in-depth analysis of significant issues rather than routine monitoring.

The integration is also good. Our setup includes multiple vCenters and hardware products from various vendors, ensuring seamless integration.

vROPs tells us about the health, risk, and efficiency of our systems. For example, it identifies over-provisioned VMs that can be rightsized. This helps with cost sustainability by reclaiming resources in VMware, reusing them, and avoiding additional servers. That's one benefit.

Secondly, it helps us identify situations where VMs need more resources so we can upsize them before encountering issues. This allows us to be more proactive on potential problems.

The insights it gives for the virtual environment are valuable. vRealize being built on vROPs and Aria being native to VMware are both plus points. However, the landscape is changing, and this is where it gets interesting.

Here's the key difference: If you only care about infrastructure and its management, then vROPs or Aria are great. But today, organizations and enterprises need end-to-end visibility. This means full-stack visibility across cloud, applications, services, all the way down to transactions. That's where other products come into play. 

vROPs or Aria limit themselves to the infrastructure layer because they lack visibility into the layers above, which require additional tools specifically designed for those purposes.

If you only need visibility up to the infrastructure layer, they're good. But that's not enough. Let's say you need a dashboard showing complete visibility for applications and stacks.  As you move up the stack, visibility into just the infrastructure isn't enough. Ultimately, you need to see how that infrastructure helps or hinders the applications and services you deliver to customers. 

That's where other products come into the picture. Now, in my case, I manage the entire VMware stack along with many other systems, creating a heterogeneous ecosystem. The challenge is having to look at multiple management consoles - vROPs for one thing, then somewhere else for another, and so on. What's truly needed is a holistic view, and that's the goal.

Improved manageability is the main benefit.

We're able to use the solution to analyze all of our logs, for years to come.