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

"We're more proactive than reactive, so that's important to our customers."

"One of the most attractive features in vROps is collecting information, logs, and events and, after that, providing proactive predictions about usage of resources. vROps also offers recommendations. For example, in the next two months we might face problems with CPU usage. vROps predicted and forecasted these issues in advance. That's a very useful feature."

"The most valuable feature is the ability it has to adjust the efficiency inside the infrastructure."

"The most valuable feature is determining if more resources are needed, at the hypervisor level, based on the workload of the virtual machines that we have in our environment."

"The most valuable features of VMware Aria Operations are its stability, ease of use, and extensive range of features."

"We are in a better position from an IT point of view; we can actually show management our plan based on growth, whatever growth they're looking for within the environment, as well as be proactive."

"We've gone from having no insight into the type of resources which we're using to a lot of insight, providing many different reports on how to keep our business running efficiently."

"Initial setup was straightforward; it was very simple, right out of the box it worked."

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"I like the openness of the solution."

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

"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."

"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."

"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."

"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."

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

"The flexibility of the solution is the most valuable feature."

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Cons

"It was just a case of going in, looking around, learning it, and just getting a little bit of initial help for a few days."

"The main concern would be just to make sure that there's some consistency when third-parties are building their various content packs for it."

"A lot of feedback that we're getting from some of our engineers who are actually using Operations today is that the graphics are very low-key."

"I find it to be a little chuggish sometimes; it can be very slow."

"When it finds a problem, the product currently provides certain solutions for you to implement to resolve the problem; it might be nice to have a trigger that would actually implement that solution directly into the VMware or into the VM itself."

"One way the solution could be improved, in my opinion: management packs, more native management packs with API."

"They should improve the vROps Federation Management Pack, so each customer can create a single pane of glass for multiple sites of vROps."

"The what-if analysis section is not very advanced and there is a lot of room for improvement."

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

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

"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."

"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."

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

"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"vRealize Operations has proved to be a cost effective solution for our big environment."

"If the VMs were trimmed, then we wouldn't have to buy as much software/hardware, and this means less licenses. While most of it is VMware licenses, which are relatively cheap, there are SQL licenses for Microsoft, and this is where we could start saving a lot of money."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"In terms of the pricing for VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), I can't remember exactly how much it costs, but it was included in the VMware vSphere enterprise plus licensing package my company paid for."

"Pricing is good for us. We're non-profit so we get a break on that."

"When we last did a comparison of solutions, the pricing was equal or similar."

"Every VMware product is a licensing challenge. It's always costly. It's based on processors. From a technical side, the product is very good. The challenging part is always the licensing. They should have some kind of alternate pricing models."

"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."

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"The pricing model is complicated."

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

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

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Financial Services Firm

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Small Business

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Small Business	66
Midsize Enterprise	61
Large Enterprise	281

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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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