VMware Aria Operations Reviews

The most valuable features are the custom dashboard, the management pack, reports, and policy.

vROps propose some scheduled reports on the resource consumption for each VM.

The policy and some few metrics are not very clear. More explanations would be great.

I have been using this product for 2 years.

I haven’t had any issues with stability.

I haven’t had any issues with scalability.

Technical support was excellent.

We used vCOPS, but vROps is the new version of vCOPS. vROPS has more scalability and more features.

The initial setup was very simple. Tuning it is harder.

It’s better to buy vROps as part of the vRealize Suite package or vCloud Suite.

We evaluated VMTurbo and Foglight.

The design is very important for flows and rules. It is better if you have good vSphere skills.

Real time analytics and reporting plus integration with Log Insight and vRealize Configuration Manager.

I’m a consultant who delivers this product as well as numerous other VMware products. For the organizations I have deployed it for, and on projects where it has been deployed, it has certainly aided in operating expenditure, better management and reporting of current and future metrics and values.

The solution is growing and starting to have more custom dashboards into existing reporting systems which will make it fit better into organisations who have existing solutions that they need to integrate with in an interim manner or permanently.

Three years.

No, it’s an OVA and is now only one machine so it’s very simple to deploy.

No issues encountered.

Only on a very large scale and this is continually being expanded with new releases of vRealize Operations.

Hard to say I am normally part of that customer service.

If someone needed to contact VMware Global support which I have done on behalf of clients before I can say they are very capable.

Some customers use SCOM as this monitors the OS's on the VMs being monitored by vRealize Operations.

Straightforward, as stated before it is one appliance you deploy.

I am normally doing this as either my current company Xtravirt or as VMware PSO.

Customers normally save on operating expenses due to monitoring and future planning being made easier as well as savings due to reporting of wasted resources that they can claim back or at least plan better in the future for deployments.

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

Do it as it’s a brilliant product.

Capacity management.

We were able to downsize workloads and our hardware.

It really helps with stability. Overall, it is a stable product.

It's been great, but we have a small department.

Very good.

It was very easy. They installed it using the vROps Wizard.

I think it's a good product.

Most important criteria when selecting a new vendor:

• Overall support for the product
• Response to support tickets
• Product features
• New feature roll-outs

Doing the rightsizing of the VMs themselves, telling me whether to add more memory or take away some.

Rightsizing reduces expenses.

In terms of rightsizing the VMs, I'd like to actually see vROps do that for me but currently it doesn't. I'd like to be able to schedule it for a certain time and date.

Seems to be pretty stable.

We haven't had any issues with it.

I've used technical support, and it's great.

We weren't previously using anything else. We went with vROps after our TAM and our SE suggested it would be good for our environment.

I was not involved in it.

No.

When considering vendors, the most important issue is support.

Also, be patient. It collects a lot of information

The capacity planning: Purchasing hardware takes a long time for us. This way you can get where you're actually going to be at six months down the road.

We are on an older version. It hasn't improved any mission critical systems.

Lack of documentation.

I wish the documentation was better for the solution. When we first deployed it, there were very few resources online. That's why we don't use it that much.

It's fine. It's stable.

We have a contact, but we have never used him/her.

We weren't using a different solution.

It was easy to set up.

Use the community. I find it helpful.

I would tell others to avoid version 6.0.2 and go for 6.6. It seems a lot nicer.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: reputation.

• Alerts
• The insight as to what is going on in the environment.

If there is something wrong with a particular VM, we can see what's going on. It alerts on disk space, memory, etc. to what is going on. Then we also use it for our Horizon View environment. It gives us more details which we can't get on the dashboard from the canned Horizon View Administration consult.

It's mostly from the administrative side for us. It has helped us stay on top of issues in our environment, less downtime, etc.

It is somewhat hard to manage the alerts. Granted, that is probably training on my side. But I would like to actually do more custom alerts for our environment. I know you can do it. It is just hard to intuitively figure it out. You've got to dig into it. It would be nice for VMware to simplify it.

Last six to 12 months.

I haven't had any issues with it.

It's been fine.

We haven't used it.

I was not involved with the initial setup for this organization, but I have set it up in other organizations.

It is really easy to set up. You just deploy the OVA, and it's done. Give them an IP address, point it at your environment, and you're good.

I really like the new version. Better interface.

If you are looking at the solution, I say, "Go for it." It has been good for us.

The most valuable features would be the insight into our operating environment. It lets us see what's going on with our virtual infrastructure, with our virtual machines, with our hardware, with everything.

It makes it easier to manage. It streamlines our operations. We don't have to go digging around a dozen different places to find out performance statistics or performance information. It allows us to more easily rightsize virtual machines.

It never goes down.

Easily scalable.

I haven't used technical support for this solution. I do have a contact within the dealer who is knowledgeable. We just haven't had any issues with it.

No, we didn't really have one beforehand. We just needed performance statistics, to quantify how our VMs are operating, and vROps is a logical solution for that.

It was easy. It was simple. It took an hour to install one of our virtual machines, tied into our vCenter server, and that's it. It's a straightforward product. It's really easy to use.

We upgraded and that was really easy, too. Just a couple of clicks and it goes through.

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

In terms of criteria when selecting a vendor the important criteria are cost, reliability, and reputation. They're the top three. Perhaps community feedback plays a role as well.

For vRealize Operations, we use it a lot for capacity planning and our VDI environment.

It improves our ability to provision and acquire hardware when we run out of capacity for our VDI environment.

More data, at least in the VMware, for their Blast Extreme protocol that they use now.

Stability of vROps is good. We have no issues with it.

We haven't had a problem with scalability for vROps. No issues.

We haven't used technical support.

We weren't using something previously.

We needed the feature set that vRealize Operations had. It was already included in the horizon licensing that we purchased.

I was involved in the initial setup. Part of the initial purchase was to have VMware come on site to help install vRealize. An in-house team was sent too.

Just VMware.

Have VMware come onsite to help with the install and knowledge transfer. Also, make sure to research all the different features to use with vRealize Operations.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Ease of use in the product you are looking to use.