VMware Aria Operations vs vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] comparison

The compared VMware Aria Operations and vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] solutions aren't in the same category. VMware Aria Operations is ranked #1 in VM , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 24.7% mindshare in the category. Additionally, 94% of VMware Aria Operations users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

VMware Aria Operations

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

376

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (1st)

vRealize Business for Cloud...

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

AldoDomini

Senior System Network Analyst at Net spa

Have faced limitations due to high costs but have maintained reliability over time

The primary issue is the pricing, which is very expensive for my company's budget. We cannot afford to pay such a large fee. We are not Microsoft or BMW; we are a small company. As a small company, I have no power to negotiate directly with VMware. Perhaps larger companies have more opportunity to contract directly with VMware, but I do not have that leverage. The only path I can follow is to change solutions. Net.spA is a company working in the field of waste management. We are not a technological company, so we do not have a large margin to justify purchasing and maintaining the VMware infrastructure at current costs.

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ThomasMeyer

Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig

Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management

The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. 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. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"With HPEOO we're talking 45 minutes, at least, for provisioning of a VDI, and for the VMware stack, with vRA and vRO, we've cut that down to about 12 minutes."

"All our capacity management and capacity planning processes are based on vROps."

"It is easy to drill down directly to the root cause of a problem. It goes from network to storage and having access to all the metrics. When you run 100 percent virtual, then everything is in one tool."

"It can create a list of operational tasks that need to be addressed."

"I would advise others to start using this because they will not regret it."

"vROps capacity allocation and management has helped us save on hardware costs, unneeded licenses, power, or other data center costs."

"We have had major outages that we would have caught in advance had vROps been in place."

"The alerting feature would be the most valuable feature for us. It gathers more metrics. In the latest versions, there are metrics that are being exactly captured with vCenter which are a bit better. Aside for that it provides a historical analysis of metrics over time."

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"The solution's cost management is very good."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is automation, because you can develop an automation blueprint in about half an hour and then deploy it on several systems, which was a great advantage for us as we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."

"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."

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Cons

"Technical support is normally good but there is sometimes a delay in their response."

"Unfortunately, we encountered a limitation in version 6.2."

"It's a little bit scattered. I have to go through a lot of steps to get everything in one place."

"I feel that I was better able to troubleshoot it myself by using Google than by using the tech support."

"Sometimes it's difficult to find some features like they were in previous versions."

"I would like to go back in history on the performance data and blank out some of that performance data so that it isn't used in calculations."

"There are certain issues with capturing the information on vSphere application metrics. vROps doesn't clearly capture those metrics."

"The room for improvement is in the definition of the metrics. There are millions of metrics inside the solution, but there is no documentation from VMware for what those exact metrics are. That is a trouble point at times."

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"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."

"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."

"At the moment, in the POC, we have a very huge issue because you definitely have to implement a vSphere cluster."

"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."

"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."

"I think that the service could be improved by simplifying the pricing model."

"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"As we continue to implement it across multiple environments, it reduces costs as well."

"Most small users don't adopt VMware Aria Operations until it's necessary. Small businesses are looking for it, too. We need more monitoring and insights, so we're analyzing solutions to help us out here. I rate the solution’s pricing a five out of ten."

"We have seen ROI in performance. It used to be our company was giving out eight CPUs to all servers. That was bad performance-wise. People were seeing slow compute times for their applications."

"The license is a one time cost, and you pay for support on a yearly basis. It is a bit expensive, but if you consider the product support and its reliability, it's justifiable."

"The pricing is a little bit expensive. Licensing is an issue because there are always changes, and by that I mean cost increases. And that's not only for vROps but for VMware, vSphere, and all the products that are involved."

"If one is low price and ten is high price, I rate the product price a ten."

"We have seen huge ROI. It has certainly reduced troubleshooting."

"The licensing is not clear at the moment if the on-premises pricing is the same as on the cloud. I am checking on the pricing. However, you can save a lot of money with the cloud solution because you need to spend time installing, upgrading, and connecting with the on-premises solution. Also, you don't need to spend time scheduling the maintenance and maintaining the solution when using the cloud version."

More VMware Aria Operations pricing and cost advice

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing model is complicated."

"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."

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Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	62
Large Enterprise	278

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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?

vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...

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Is VMware Aria Operations a user friendly solution?

In terms of user-friendliness, VMware Aria Operations is one of the best solutions out there. It is not overly complex to set up and you can rely on the technical support to provide you with assis...

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What is the most useful new feature of VMware Aria Operations?

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Also Known As

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)

VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel

Overview

VMware Aria Operations provides detailed metrics, graphing capabilities, and historical data for proactive infrastructure management, offering a single pane of glass for comprehensive views, alert notifications, and seamless integration with VMware tools.

VMware Aria Operations is designed for monitoring and optimizing virtual environments, empowering businesses to enhance infrastructure efficiency and manage workloads. With stress ratings and capacity planning, it facilitates troubleshooting performance issues while forecasting resource needs. Automation and integration with VMware tools streamline operations, making it indispensable for maintaining system health and enabling data-driven decisions. Users appreciate its comprehensive infrastructure views, though they note the interface complexity and high pricing as key considerations. Improved automation, third-party integration, and usability are desired enhancements.

What are the key features of VMware Aria Operations?

Single Pane of Glass: Provides comprehensive views of infrastructure for easy management.
Performance Monitoring: Tracks performance with detailed metrics and trend analysis.
Capacity Planning: Offers insights into stress ratings and future resource needs.
Alert Notifications: Effectively notifies users of potential system issues.
Automation and Integration: Streamlines operations with VMware tools.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Infrastructure Efficiency: Ensures optimal use of virtual environments for effective workload management.
Operational Visibility: Improves decision-making with detailed insights and analytics.
Resource Optimization: Helps forecast and allocate resources efficiently.
Proactive Management: Facilitates early detection of issues to maintain system health.

VMware Aria Operations' implementation across industries like finance, healthcare, and education showcases its utility in maintaining operational efficiency. It aids in tracking usage metrics and integrating workflows, benefiting sectors with critical performance and resource management needs.

Broadcom

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

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Sample Customers

Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi

Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis

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