VMware Aria Automation Reviews

The most valuable feature of the product is the automation for services; it’s the basis of my work. It is important because nowadays, in this complex world, services have become the base for everything. Having a large base is needed to better build what you need for your pipelines, as opposed to a few years ago, when the application was king.

We created pipelines for all our products.

The base library is missing some key elements such as networking management (mine is lacking on that front) and some more granularity on the apt part.

I have used it for 12 months.

I have not encountered any stability issues so far.

I have not encountered any scalability issues so far.

Technical support is just about right, in the sense that the product is well documented and information is easy to find.

We previously used Puppet, which was not suited for my current workload. We chose SaltStack because Ruby wasn't the language used by my team and we needed a master-client solution as opposed to a master-less one.

Initial setup was very easy.

Pricing and licensing is perfect the way it is.

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated CFEngine.

Read the docs.

We use it to deploy virtual machines and integrate them into our structured environment.

The quick provisioning: We get a lot of things done automatically within hours. These things lasts days or weeks in further situations.

The solution is intuitive and user-friendly. E.g., you have less number of logins.

The stability is okay, but could be improved. We sometimes receive strange errors, which can only be solved with specialists.

We don't use the scalability.

The technical support will handle our requests quickly if understood. However, there are often misunderstandings depending on the information that we provide and they request.

We had another product before this, but we moved away from it to use vRealize Automation. The UI, administration possibilities, and the integration of the overall system were better than the former system, which was not up-to-date.

It improves the work, making it better. It also makes daily work much easier.

Fast provisioning and integration with public cloud. Our customers want the VMs to be up and running as early as possible. Also, some of our customers need their workloads to be running on the public clouds like AWS to minimize the cost. Using vRA, we can easily integrate AWS and can provision VMs on them.

Fast provisioning.

I don’t see configuration management feasibility. I think there should be a configuration management tool on the user dashboard. It can be used to patch/update the servers provisioned through vRA for an inbuilt facility.

We have seen couple of bugs.

Not really.

Good.

Good.

Yes. Poor vendor support and less stability.

It was straightforward but they still need to improve the IaaS components.

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

Yes. HPE.

Go for it.

Multi-tenancy is one of the best features for configuring a single portal for multiple departments/customers. Multi-tenancy allows us to use a single vRA portal to configure multiple tenants with their individual URLs. Also, this feature allows us to use shared infrastructure for multiple tenants.

The front end portal for end users, which communicates with infrastructure endpoints.

The infrastructure part and VM reconfigure need improvement so that the end user can smoothly perform all the tasks which they are directly performing on the endpoints.

Three years.

No.

No.

Excellent.

No.

Straightforward.

This is one of VMware's best products for automation.

We use it to be able to see everything within our VM space.

It has helped our organization tremendously.

It provides visibility into the VM space.

It is user-friendly to a greater extent.

It is stable.

It is scalable.

I have used the technical support once or twice, and they were good.

We are highly virtualized, so we like anything related to VMware because we need the visability their products provide. We need to know what is going on, so we can supervise our operations.

The setup is difficult. You need a technical person to help you set it up.

We have not upgraded yet.

I would recommend this solution.

We use it for server virtualization.

It's scalable. As the needs of the university grow, it's growing with us.

There is room for improvement but, hopefully, everything is being been addressed already. For example, integrations. VMware is going crazy with M&A and integrations take time, so I can't complain.

It's a stable product.

I'm very happy to see the partnership with AWS.

Technical support is fantastic. They're responsive with tickets.

We used a little bit of everything.

The initial setup was complex. It's improving now.

I'm happy with the product. I would absolutely recommend it to a colleague.

When you compare it to other products in the market, it depends on what you're trying to do.

One of the valuable features is controlling VM standards and server sprawl while at the same time providing the ability for end users to self-provision VMs. This is enabled by the blueprint and resource reclamation features.

We no longer need to waste cycles manually building VMs and experience delays associated with service requests attached to those build functions.

More detailed documentation on implementing feature sets and more examples of real world processes would help.

We have used this solution for less than three months.

We have not encountered any issues with stability yet.

We have not yet looked into scaling out the solution.

I have not needed to use technical support yet.

I did not previously use a different solution. This is the first automation tool that I have used.

The initial setup was straightforward. However, the more advanced capabilities of the tool are more difficult to understand and implement.

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

Take as much training as you can before trying to deploy and use the product.

We are part of a Cloud team and vRA self-service portal helps our customers worldwide to provision machines and Day 2 operations automatically without logging tickets and wasting time.

We are part of a Cloud service provider. It has helped our business to grow and scale.

Implementation should not be so complex. Certificate replacement should be easier.

Three years.

Performance of the service portal seems to be slow at times. Requires a reboot once a month.

We faced no issues with scalability.

Technical support is good through Ireland and the US.

No, we have been using vRA for three years.

It was complex; the certificate was the worst part.

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

No, we are a partner with VMware so that was our choice.

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