VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We use it to monitor our system and optimize performance.

It visualizes stuff better, so we can pinpoint or see problems. However, I feel as though there is a lot of potential in the product that we haven't utilized.

The most valuable features are the trending and analytics.

When you deploy it as a single node, it's more stable than if you have multiple nodes. We've had some issues with this.

Scalability is good, but I haven't tested it that much.

I have tried the technical support.

It is pretty straightforward.

I would recommend NSX. From my experience, the solution is pretty good.

The vRealize Operations Manager gives you complete insight of the VMware environment. You can check the bottleneck in the environment and it can directly tell you what needs to be fixed. What I really like about vROps is the dashboard. It's completely insightful, very clean, simple, and even for those who don't really manage the environment, it wouldn't be difficult for them to understand by looking the dashboard what's wrong and how it needs to be fixed. That's what I like about vROps.

It's the ability to forecast. It would tell you what is overprovisioned, therefore you can accordingly fix it, which helps you save on your costs. If you are over-provisioning the VMs, you're adding more memory and storage, or CPU sources, which are going to waste. With this solution, we can actually keep them on track which helps save costs, which is good for the company.

With a little more smoothness to the application, as it can lag a bit at times. Although, I don't really find too many negatives with it.

For the next release, I would like to see the HA feature (should already be in the next release).

It's quite stable. I haven't tried the HA feature, which has recently been added, but I never had any problems with vROps.

It's quite scalable. We have instances for different vCenters running, so I think it is quite scalable.

I have used it once. Something broke while I was working and I had no idea what it was, so I call up the support guys. They were quite helpful and able to fix the problem.

We always had problems in understanding issues related to resources. So our temp, he suggested vROps and that's when we invested in it.

For this company, I was involved in the initial setup. It was mostly straightforward.

Even if you Google it, you will find the implementation steps. I didn't have any problems doing the installation. I think if you're a virtualization administrator, you should be able to manage.

CDW.

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

vROps is something that most companies should be using, because you never quite know where you're actually wasting a resource until you start using vROps.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: They should be able to keep us informed (the most important aspect) on upcoming technology trends, the new releases, and new features.

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.