I've used both VMware Aria Operations and Veeam ONE.

If I need to troubleshoot a problem, I would use VMware Aria Operations. If I need to get a complete overview of my environment and generate reports, I would use Veeam ONE.

I have been told that the company tried SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. While they tried SolarWinds, the winner was vROps in the end because the level of integration, comprehensiveness, and extensive data provided by vROps was much better than SolarWinds and Veeam ONE.

At first, vROps might be really intimidating due to the amount of information that you get. from vROps. You might say, "Okay, this is so huge, big, and complicated." However, after using vROps for a couple of weeks, you will understand the value of this product much better. I think a lot of people might jump into the UI, then its level of complication and complexity, they would say, "SolarWinds or Veeam ONE is a better solution because it is really simple." I would say to them, "Challenge yourself with it. Involve and engage yourself to work with the UI. After a couple of weeks, you will understand that vROps is definitely the best choice when it comes to monitoring VMware solutions."

We looked at SolarWinds and BMC. One of the primary reasons we went with vROps was that we had a large VMware infrastructure. Also, at that time, the dashboards were very good. Also, at some level, it was an agentless solution. In all the other cases you had to install an agent in the end VMs. But because vROps is tightly integrated with VMware, it monitors without agents. That was a factor. Cost was also a factor.

A lot of the decision to go with product and the vendor went on before or right when I was hired. They were very close to going with Foglight, very close. They basically were ready to sign and VMware showed up and said, "Whoa, you didn't even look at this." During my interviews, I even encouraged using VMware. I said, "Look, it's got some good stuff." I'd used version 5.8 before a little bit at a previous employer, and they basically looked at it again. It's really the thing to go with if you're using vSphere; it's just what you're going to do.

The main reason my company goes with VCS is that they already have a current VMware setup. When people go with the VCS suite itself, suppose you have a VMware virtualized network and VMware workloads running on one platform. 

For the network, you may be using different switches, and for storage, you may be using different SANs. So, with this approach, you have to pay different vendors because you're not relying on the same vendor for everything. 

And whenever something goes wrong, you have to open different tickets, which can be costly and time-consuming. So, people go for VCS mostly because they are getting everything in one single setup.

VMware has your networking, your virtualization, vSAN storage, vRealize Automation for automating workloads, vROps for monitoring, and VRNI for monitoring specific networks. So, it comes as a bundle, and it's pretty easy for companies to know that if they buy everything from the same vendor, it streamlines their processes. 

It also leads to operational efficiency because they are dealing with one vendor. And then, when you have two different products bundled in a suite from the same vendor, compatibility is never an issue. That's one of the main things. Because if you have different vendors and products, there is always uncertainty about whether upgrading one product will be compatible with another product from a different vendor. 

And if we look at what VMware has done recently, every year they have validated design guides. So, through that, we'll have everything within that guide, which one is compatible with which, which doesn't work with which, and if there are any limitations with any releases. So, we get everything in one suite. 

So, that's the reason most people go with them because they can foresee their future development in terms of hardware, in terms of their workload, or in terms of their business.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing VMware.

We also looked at VMTurbo and there were a few other ones for resource reclamation but as soon as we found out that vROps in the newer versions was able to be a little bit more robust, it was the clear selling point.

We didn't look into other options. We very much get to where VMware house is part of our strategy, it was just a natural fit into our infrastructure.

vROps was definitely on the top list, then we had VMTurbo (Turbonomic) and there's another product called Runecast. We have higher-tier products like Scalar but it's not really an operation type.

There are other providers out there that will give a similar experience to vROps, but we're comfortable with it. We were being pressured to look at these other things because one of our acquisitions used one of them. They wanted us to come to an agreement on what was best and we didn't like what they were using, so we stuck with vROps. Now they're with vROps, and lucky for them.

We looked at Turbonomic. It was expensive because of their ability to learn your environment. We already owned a piece of the vROPs suite, the compliance manager, so we sort of fell into the suite. We thought we can go out and buy Turbonomic, which will cost us so much money or we get the enterprise product because we already have the compliance manager piece, which is what we did, and never looked back. 

It's an excellent solution compared to others. When I first looked at a Turbonomic was a few years ago, they had a few more features than what vCOPS was doing at the time. I gave that feedback and all those features are now in the product. Therefore, there's not much of a comparison today.

We've looked at VMTurbo and we've talked with the other vendors that I’ve mentioned we use, to see if there are ways of doing what we want to do within their goals.

We had looked at other OEMs and partner OEMs, but none had as good reviews as this solution.

We are using Veeam and SolarWinds, but they are not that efficient.

We looked at a couple of other products. We looked at Turbonomic and Veeam. But we have a very large relationship with VMware, so we have a hefty discount. We are also very involved with using Log Insight and with using vRA. So we buy the suite and vROps is free. It would cost us more to buy those other tools individually. Since we have the suite, we have the licenses so it makes sense to use it.

That being said, we did buy Turbonomic about a month ago because operations management says vROps is not working for us for the real-time monitoring and automatically adjusting to the environment. vROps is working for historical work, so are still planning on using it for that. Turbonomic does not have historical, so they work together in a way. But We've had to buy, for a few more million dollars, another product whose function, we thought, vROps was going to do all of.

We have looked at other solutions. We purchased Veeam not too long ago. Veeam has a product called Veeam ONE that does somewhat the same thing, but the way vRealize Operations integrates with the functionality of other things - like Insight Manager, and vRealize Automation - makes it the thing that brings all the pieces of the puzzle together. Using a third-party product we would be missing that. And it does it better than other pieces, so for us, it was a no-brainer. It would help us out with our vision of using VMware plus it worked better than the other products we looked at and PoC'ed.

We looked at VMTurbo, now re-branded as Turbonomic. It didn't bring anything new to the fold for us. The way in which it's licensed is really, I think, a little bit outrageous. I just think VMware continues to do a stellar job in how they put together solutions that are purpose built and threaded together to work as an entire ecosystem.

We looked at vFoglight again, but it was too difficult. We looked at a product called VMTurbo (Turbonomic), and it didn't really come up to par during the PoC that we went through. We weren't very happy with it.

Before choosing VMware Aria Operations I evaluated other solutions. 

We have not evaluated other solutions since this one is from VMware itself. We prefer to use the proprietary solution.

There were a couple of options that we considered, like Microsoft SCOM and SolarWinds, but the level of monitoring and dashboard visibility wasn’t there.

This tool gives us everything we need. I don't see any alternatives to it.

We have another monitoring tool which we use for physical servers and virtual as well, but vRealize Operations Manager gives us more detail. It's best of breed when it come to monitoring.

There's a couple big players in this address space obviously. One of the major considerations for us was our aggressive timeline which we were looking to deploy, and that our deployment head already reached, not just a New Jersey-Atlanta implementation, but throughout the world as well. So the flexibility to expand across the globe is really an important piece of it.

We looked at a few other vendors. It wasn't a very large offering. Also, for the price, it was very good. It was a very good price, we thought. We're educational too, so there's a different spin on that, as far as looking at third-party vendors versus this, plus we're trying to semi-unify on platforms and management. Trying not to keep putting more and more layers into everything.

We looked at Foglight, vRealize, and Veeam. The main reason we chose vRealize is because it's included in our license. 

We looked into a competitor but it was way too expensive. The fact that vROps came as part and parcel of the vRA enterprise gave us a huge win on the cost. 

ManageEngine, and we used Veeam and Veeam ONE. Those were basically the only ones.

We also considered Veeam One. Our choice for the VMWare SDDC is the best product for us.

We tried to evaluate many solutions, such as Prometheus, Dynatrace, Nagios, and PRTG. It was best for us to go with vROps because it is a VMware product, and it integrates best with VMware vCenter.

We used ManageEngine, but that was more looking at the Windows side of things. I can't remember any of the others we looked at.

We looked at a couple of VMware's competitors. One of them was VMTurbo (now called Turbonomic). The main reason we went with vROps was the ease of integration, ease of use, and the support behind it. The community behind vRealize is relatively large and that just made the decision that much simpler for us.

Also, from a cost standpoint, we were able to negotiate with VMware. And, with VMware, the deployment process was a lot simpler for us, and the training-learning curve for vRealize versus the other solution tended to be the easier, so that was also a factor.

IBM, PureSoftware, and Dell EMC.

VMTurbo was the main one that we looked at.

The most important criteria when I’m selecting a vendor like VMware is the relationship. We have a good relationship with VMware. Also, whether it is a proven product, and then obviously cost is always at the top of the list.

We looked at VMTurbo. That one seems okay, but it wasn't compelling enough to buy something different. vROps is a part of the suite license that we have, so it's sort of already there.

VMTurbo was on our short list at the time.

No, as I thought this is a good tool as heard in a VMware forum.

On our shorlist, beside vROps, were vFoglight and one other that I don't remember.

Because we are a government company there are compliance requirements. Any purchase has to go through a public process. We have to publish the information in the market. We looked at BMC and CA, and we looked at CA recently.

We tested and did a proof of concept for each of the solutions, not a big test but a simple process; enough to see how they operate. For me, the big difference was that vROps is a VMware solution and is integrated with other products such as vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Automation, and of course, vCenter. And the unique dashboard was also a great addition to our operations.

We did not look at any of their competitors.

We also use SolarWinds, AppDynamics, Nimsoft, plus vRealize as well. We're trying to make the company all go for one thing, but it's been a bit of a struggle. We'll be pushing it.

We used Grafana to monitor our environment. With vROps, you have all the VMware specific metrics and dashboards. It's much harder to invest time in another solution where you have to build it on your own.

We just considered vROps. Grafana was something that we designed on our own afterwards.

In terms of integration, between this product and everything else in the VM product line, it is very easy to just pick this up as opposed to looking elsewhere.

We have another competing product that we use to do the same thing. We use it as well. So, we have two things doing the same thing. Some things we like about it, and some things we don't.

We're also using SCOM with Veeam together. I don't think we will move away from Veeam and it will not replace SCOM. 

We compared a couple of different tools and it really came down to the fact that VMware was giving us a good price for bundling it with our Horizon purchase, at the time. And, at the time, we were doing PCoIP and it was basically the only product that really gave us that insight.

We looked at VMTurbo, and we loved their product, but it's more expensive. The VMTurbo user interface is phenomenal; very easy to move. It gives you everything you're looking for. Plus, whoever did the user interface testing at VMTurbo was the sys admin; for vROps, it might have been a programmer. You need to have a sys admin as one of the guys who tests the product and its suitability. With vROps, I need to know what I'm looking for.

Yes but it was software previously installed and vCOPs was used as a replacement.

We did not evaluate other similar solutions prior to implementing vROps.

We did evaluate other solutions. 

We tried to use Veeam ONE one for monitoring but it's a bit difficult. It's a different project and has different ways to manage it. Previous versions of vRealize did not have the same features as Veeam ONE. Now, it does have the same features and much more. 

I haven't used a competitor's product.

Only VMware was on our list because we were already using all the other VMware solutions, like vSphere, NSX, and vCenter. Therefore, we wanted something to run on top of those products, preferably from VMware, so it could integrate in a better way.

I've been a user of this solution for quite a few years so it's something I've believed in for a while. I've looked at some alternatives but nothing that's given me everything that I needed, that I get out of the vROps.

I don't know that we really considered anything else in that pure category because, at that time, nothing really compared to it. Everybody had their own little management and monitoring solutions for their little bubbles. But there wasn't this all-inclusive, try to get other vendors to buy in and have one single monitoring solution.

We have looked at several different things. We looked at VMTurbo - Turbonomic is what they're called now. We did SolarWinds. We looked at Virtualization Manager because we already have an ELA, so we were just able to add it on to our ELA. But I like keeping everything in the VMware ecosystem. I'm very happy with our choice.

When I actually did the evaluation there was no shortlist. We had a couple products that were in place and I pushed forward with getting an enterprise solution that captured all the data. We already had this solution halfway in the environment from some other purchases on the Standard edition, so we just built off of that.

We had VMTurbo, and SolarWinds is still in the environment. Cost-wise vROps is probably a little more expensive than the other two products put together, for the advanced piece that we need, where we can do customized dashboards. But the feature set is way more advanced. I think with VMTurbo we were only getting 25 to 30 data points and now we're getting hundreds of data points in the environment.

For me, there wasn't a competitor because, under the hood, vROps is going to know everything that VirtualCenter does. If you're relying on a third-party to discover all that and put it in place - when I can stay native, I'm going to stay native, when it's the best solution.

Microsoft, and that's really about it.

Nobody else. Just VM.

I don't believe we were considering any other solutions at the time.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

There are competitors who are doing something similar, with regards to machine learning. For example, Splunk, not a direct competitor to vROps, but does a lot of stuff that vROps does. CloudPhysics is a great tool. I have also tested out CloudPhysics and worked with one of it in one of the clusters. I can tell you that it’s also a really good product. VMTurbo is another competitor to vROps, but it does a few other things that I might not want to do in an automated fashion in an enterprise. However, there are other things that VMTurbo would be really good at doing where people want that level of automation.

When we spoke to vendors, the detailed metrics was the biggest thing. The level of granularity you get, it's awesome. One bad thing about vROps is the level of granularity from a time perspective; it averages data out at five minutes. If it was possible to go down to 30 seconds, for example, or 10 seconds, that would be really great.

Granularity is good but I want even more, because, to be honest, peaks don't stay around for five minutes. When data gets averaged out at five-minute intervals, you don't catch all of the required information that you need. Still, you get a lot of information out of vROps because you can tweak it for time.

I tested SolarWinds, ManageEngine, and HPE. I was looking for a product to help with monitoring of some special appliances from Dell EMC. I tested different products, and this solution was the only one that helped my customers and me to get the final solution that I was looking for. It is really difficult, practically impossible, to get a monitoring system for these types of Dell EMC physical appliances: Avamar, Data Domain, and RecoverPoint. I tried different products, like Zabbix, Nagios, and PRTG. Whereas, vROps is perfect for this type of job.

Dell EMC doesn't have any idea how to monitor. They offer coding, scripting, APIs, and connecting to vCenter. They don't offer a knowledge base or advice for monitoring problems. I discovered vROps for monitoring their problems.

While open sources are free, you have to spend a lot of time training and explaining to people how to use them.  

I am reading and checking for different solutions all the time.

We did not look into other solutions because, at that time, we already had our VMware infrastructure. vROps is the best option for monitoring VMware infrastructure.

We chose VMware and its solution because it was the most easily supportable. We know some of their consultants and our people know the products.

We had a little bit of Hyper-V, but normally, mostly VMware.

Probably the big one that a lot of people would compare to vROps is Veeam ONE. We looked at Veeam ONE among other products and found that the level of metrics that we got out of vRealize Operations, because it comes from VMware, were pretty much second to none. 

Another vendor on our shortlist was WhatsUp Gold. 

Turbonomic.

We chose VMware because we have all the other VMware products.

No. We invested in the overall package and we got vROps as part of it.

Look for the partnership when choosing a vendor. We're in a pretty tough environment, healthcare, so we have some unique challenges. If things don't happen right, patient care is affected. So they have to be able to partner with us and understand the urgency behind some of the things we're trying to do. As long as they're flexible and can understand where we're coming from, that's fine. We've had some vendors that just don't get it. VMware has been excellent.

Turbonomic, VMTurbo, and Splunk. But I don't think Splunk does the same thing, so, the first two. We chose VMware because they gave us the best price and because of the enterprise association we already have with them.

Not at this time, because we're partnered with them.

 Other than VMware, I can't think of any others right now.

This seemed like the right product. It was integrated with VMware and had the most visibility into the VMware software and stuff that was running on it. We weren't looking at any other solutions.

It is important knowing that the vendor is committed to the product and committed to keeping it updated on the stuff that it's monitoring. It's pretty important that when VMware releases a new version of the infrastructure, vROps will be there and monitor any of those changes.

At the time, I was evaluating all of the other alternatives; I mean third-party providers and similar solutions. In the beginning, there was a lot of data and I couldn’t really utilize it, but it's more intuitive now. I looked at other products, too, but everybody was in that infancy stage at that point in time.

I used Turbonomic a long time ago, but only as a test.

We evaluated third-party solutions such as RackNap.

We use a multiple-monitoring solution but vROps is more tailored towards the environment that we use. We use both solutions hand in hand. The monitoring solutions that we currently use notify us of any issues and whatnot. We use vROps to tell us what the VMs or servers are doing over time. 

We've looked at other solutions but we stick with the vRealize Operations mainly for the usability and the integration with VMware.

We went straight from SolarWinds to VMware.

We chose VMware because of its time on the market, the company's reputation, and the support.

I mostly use VMware products. They integrate well together. I also participate on VMTN, the VMware community online.

It was pretty much Microsoft or VMware, from our concerns. So, we started with one and went the other way.

I know Turbonomic is one that comes up all the time. A lot of times, for monitoring, we ask companies what they're currently using: Are they using SolarWinds or are they using something else, and how can we help them?

Maybe after the fact, we looked at VMTurbo a little bit, but that was already after I'd purchased vROps. So it wasn't very realistic as far as going after that product. We also have Veeam Availability Suite, which comprised the same functionality as well. That's because of the way we purchased Veeam for our backup environment. The Availability Suite just came with the backup environment. The vendor gave it to us that way. We don't really use it too much. It seems like Veeam is a nice product as well.

We’re thinking of Microsoft Azure Stack. It's not out on the market yet, but we're waiting on that.

We looked at SolarWinds and we looked at a Veeam product.

vROps fit better. It just fit better for what we were doing. The other ones didn't. You had to install agents on all of the VMs. We didn't just want to do that.

We had a request for proposals on management suites and the winner of that RFP was the StrataCloud suite. At that time, we had 6 or 7 competing products come in (all of their names escape me right now). They were all demo’d and we chose the one we were on based on a number of different areas, but I think the biggest one was price.

Price wasn't the most important part to me; it was important to the people buying, the end financial guy. To the technicians, we all wanted the best technical product.
I don't know if that is vROps, but right now it seems to me to be the best one.

I've tried other solutions in the industry, and vROps is a good product in comparison.

For this environment we're fairly small, so we didn't really look at anything else. In other environments, we compared other products and other companies against vROps. But, for this environment, it's so small, it just made sense. It's easy enough to do, so we just went with vROps.

We looked at Cisco CloudCenter. We looked at it at the same time but we knew that 95 percent of our infrastructure runs VMware today, so we wanted to go with the same kind of ecosystem.

We've explored a number of products. We've used SolarWinds and their VMWare add-ons. But to be able to actually see what our infrastructure does, vRealize Operations Manager has been the closest match as part of our Enterprise agreement. We are licensed for the Blue Medora Advanced Suite which is like an add-on to vRealize Operations Manager. That gives us the visibility into our Cisco and HPE equipment. It's a natural choice.

Epic actually has its own product to monitor itself. It wasn't until vROps revealed that it had this, and we could see how it operated, that it came to the forefront. So we really didn't focus in on anything else.

vROps was there before me. When I got there, I was asked if I felt that there was value in keeping it and I said yes, absolutely.

We didn't consider anything else because we have a big contract and a license for pretty much everything VMware offers, so it was just a matter of using the tools we bought.

Reputation, support, and overall visibility are important criteria for us while selecting a vendor.

We looked at other solutions namely VMware, Veeam and Tintri.

The reason as to why I chose VMware is because I've used every other major virtualization platform and their support as well as community is by far the best.

Dell, EMC.

As I’ve mentioned, it was included with our Enterprise Plus, so it was a no-brainer.

We did not evaluate any other products.

We looked at ManageEngine and SolarWinds. We chose vROps because we're a large company and they gave us a good price cut. Also because the feature set looked good from the demos. 

From a hardware point of view, we looked at SolarWinds. They have a good offering, but the integration is lacking from our point of view. We needed something that would just work without having to put time and effort into it.

I personally have used some of the other solutions in this space. I've found that you tend to have to put more manpower into getting them up and running. This is what drew us to vROps.

Other competitive tools are not as good. The whole stack with VMware is a complete solution to use.

Dell, EMC, and one other. Among the most important criteria in choosing a vendor are their technology roadmap as well as the productivity.

Peer. We don't have them yet. We're doing a PoC with them, but the people that I've dealt with, their customer service is great.

For us, they have to be on our approved list to begin with. There are a lot of legal ramifications for us.

They always do a comparison of different tools, whether it's DMC or if it's for different solutions. We have two or three different vendors we can go to. Personally, I'd prefer to stay with the VMware stuff.

An educated guess would be that my company was not looking into other solutions at the time when they were looking into vROps, because we were invested in VMware, so we were just using their tool to monitor what we had.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

There were no other vendors on our short list. We did the proofs of concept and liked vROps, so we went from there.

I think the most important criteria when we went with vROps was because it was a VMware product. We were more likely to choose it. They were getting the integration we wanted, so we didn't really look at a lot of other products.

We use this solution because I need a way to show my customers what we're doing in order to justify what they're paying for support.

I haven't had a chance yet to look at any other vendors, so far.

I think there were other vendors on my shortlist, but I really didn't get into it.

When selecting the vendor, and not the product, the most important criteria would be support. That's really big. And how the vendor presents itself – you know, presenting itself, the company, and presenting the application or software that they're selling to us.

We are always looking to different solutions, but due to the nature that we're a VMware shop, that's the first type of solutions that we're looking to.

Compared to other solutions that are in the market, for example, Splunk, vROps, in my opinion, has a leg up because it allows you to integrate with other VMware products, so to speak, so that's one of the beauties that I like about vROps.

When selecting a vendor like VMware, we always look for a company that invests in their own technology. If it is a new technology that, let's say as an example, has been on the market for one year, and we don't see that the company has a roadmap for the next five years into the future, that's something that disinterests the company that I work for.

We also use LogicMonitor, and there are a couple of others out there that we're using right now.

We didn’t really look at any other vendors because we wanted it on a stable tier 1 environment, so VMware is what we made a decision on.

We tried Veeam ONE and one other whose name I can't recall.

We didn't really look at others. We just went with this because it made sense.

For virtual environments, I have not compared it with products from other vendors. I think it's better to go with vROps because they have some bundles. Who knows virtual infrastructure with VMware vSphere better than vROps?

There was another vendor on our short list, but I don't remember their name. I had someone come in and do a demo of some kind of VMware monitoring tool.

When selecting a vendor like VMware, my most important criteria is going to be, how good is the support? Obviously, cost comes into play. We strongly consider what the Gartner Group says; where the vendor appears in the Magic Quadrant; where they are in the market.

Opsview was another vendor we looked at. We didn't go with it because we liked vROps' use case. It allows us to see simply and graphically what a problem is and we can export a report of the problem for our customer, which is very valuable to us. Opsview gave us some information but we found it to be slower. With vROps, we can monitor every feature and vendor; we can monitor the environment which means we can monitor everything. 

We did consider some other vendors, but due to the pricing and features of those products, we skipped them quite quickly.

VMware and VMturbo.

We were already heavily into VMware. We looked at other operations and the projection planning and we went with VMware. The projection planning and budgeting wallets are a major piece and there are only once a year. The VM Operations Manager gave us more the rest of the year than the other solution did.

We looked at other solutions namely Microsoft, IBM and then, VMware. The reason why we ended up choosing this solution as it offered us a better overall solution to what we were looking for.

The main difference between vROps and the SolarWinds solution is the integration to the VMware stack in its entirety, and the opportunity to integrate it with different product sets, like Blue Medora. That makes it quite a different solution compared to SolarWinds which, as far as I know, doesn't have that type of integration. Maybe there is something new along those lines with SolarWinds and I just haven't looked at it, but I've never seen those types of integrations when it comes to SolarWinds.

We have another solution from Dell EMC called Foglight, and it's way worse. vRealize is ten times better than that product. Although they both leave us with too much nonsense to bother with.

It's better than the moderating features built-in for vSphere.

Not really. We've wanted this for a couple of years and we just didn't have the budget for it.

No, not at all.

I'm not sure which ones they looked at because that was before my time, but they did look at a lot of vendors. I believe one of them was WhatsUp Gold, but that was more of just a product the system pinged. It went down because you can no longer ping it, so that wasn't really good for us.

A lot of open-source stuff. What vROps does today, I've done it with open source products. In fact, I logged stashed stuff like that. I've done all those functions there and I've written scripts in a box that push and pull from places where I need it. I know there are other competitors out there, but I've just never been able to see those guys.

Not at the time of the purchase. Other vendors came once our product became GA.

We did not look at any of them, since we had already purchased.

We spoke to quite a few other vendors that actually had other products with similar functions of dashboard very similar, or dashboards that were suppose to be better, and they gave you much more analytics of the data. But again we stuck with this product, and the reason why we stuck with it, it gave us what we were looking for. There are some other products that are more proactive, but we decided not to take that approach.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options. We actually bought vSphere with vROps, so we never even looked at anything else.

The company where I was before didn't have anything and then we started with vRA’s Ops. When I arrived at the company I'm at now, they were a user of VMTurbo. I think the initial reason they went with that was probably cost. At that point, I don't think VMware was pushing operations manager as aggressively as third-party companies I guess.

I have spoken to Blue Medora about monitoring UCS, SQL, Windows, using Hyperic or whatever they call it now, and those kinds of things.

We wanted to start with VM Ware. If it wasn't great, we would have moved on. It's been great.

There were no other vendors on our shortlist while we were looking for something like vROps.

They compare reasonably well to alternative solutions. There are several products that are out there that would manage a virtual infrastructure for customers, but we perceive it to be the best of the existing range of products in that area.

When selecting a vendor reliability and ease of setup is something that is very important to us and are the reasons why we proceeded with this solution.

Most of my infrastructure is Windows, but Hyper-V isn't in the same class as VMware. It still feels like the new kid on the block. I've literally been using VMware since '99, product one. And being here, 20 years later, it's just VMware, it's there, it's what you use.

At the time, the other one was Turbonomic, but they are a little higher-end. We had to "sell" it to the business. vROps is not cheap either. We convinced the organization that it is in their best interest. And they followed suit.

There were no other vendors on your shortlist at the time. We weren't looking at anything else, as far as I know.

I always examined the other options and I like to see the Pros and Cons every time. What I see is while other products are improving themselves every day, VMware takes more steps.

We've looked at other solutions before, but we've never found one that does what VROps does. We've looked at Veeam ONE and VMTurbo, but I don't think they're around anymore. That's part of the problem: There were vendors that did the monitoring and they've all crashed and burned. VROps wouldn't do that.

I don't really know of any alternative solutions.

Veeam. It didn't really fit it very well.

vROps is packaged with our licensing. So that made it a pretty short list. We already had it. We went with it because it's included. We didn't really do a competitive analysis.

Just the fact that it's a VMware product, and that means that product updates are going to coincide with other products. You're not going to fall behind when VMware updates a new hypervisor. Just the fact that it's in cadence with their other releases, that's a big selling point for it.

No.

I looked at VeeamOne, SolarWinds Virtualization Management, and I found that both are the best software to use.

We use SCOM as well. What we like about the vRealize Suite of products is the customability of the product. We can do things ourselves rather than having to rely solely on Management Packs.

CDW.

We chose VMware because they are the technology leader in virtualization. We have been using it for years now.

We didn't really evaluate anyone else.

I’m not an end user but customers normally evaluate others like SCOM.

We evaluated several other vendors. However, at the price VMware offered us, there was no reason to chose anyone else.

We do have a competing solution in now. We have Turbonomic. We're looking at it at the same time.

We are currently measuring this solution against other products. We have several different monitoring tools in the environment. We are trying to whittle it down.

I checked the integration capability with tools like JIRA and ServiceNow.

There weren't any. There's nobody else that can do what it does.

We decided to use it because we're licensed for it. There wasn't a larger discussion around it.

We didn't really look at anyone else.

We decided on it just because vROps really ties into vCenter. There really wasn't any additional consideration for anybody else.

The foundation of our virtual infrastructure is VMware.

We were always looking to be better at what we do, so it was this or outside third-party products. We had a decent rapport with VMware already, and didn't feel like we needed to look outside to other solutions.

It's an extension of our vSphere environment.

We evaluated VMTurbo and Foglight.

We didn't evaluate any other products.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

No.

Just VMware.

We looked at several different options and it seemed to be the most complete package.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

I don't know if we really considered anything else. I think the first choice was vROps.

We have an ELA with VMware, and vROps is part of the ELA.

We were not looking at other vendors to provide a similar solution.

VMware is one of our big partners. That's the reason we go with them.

Hyper-V and Acropolis.

We went with VMware's vROps because the customer selected it.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

Before we chose vROps, we also looked at EMC. All of our infrastructure is based on EMC and their servers. We liked the integration between vROPs, Dell, and EMC.

I have evaluated SolarWind and Microsoft SCOM. 

vROps's key value is its ability to have a hypervisor metrics of monitoring, which other products do not have.

We were using VMware for a long time, so we just continued with their products.

No.

Citrix.

Nutanix, Rubrik, Cohesity.

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