VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We use it for our virtualization and infrastructure. It's used for a lot of clusters, a lot of hosts, VM workloads on-prem and a little bit off-prem. It's doing great. Really no complaints.

Increases efficiency, drives down costs. Being able to consolidate everything on similar hardware is really helpful, as opposed to trying to manage a bunch of hosts. It has helped us reduce time to troubleshoot issues and quality of service is better because there is more uptime. Taking maintenance is a lot easier now than it used to be. We don't have to take as many outages.

The most valuable feature is all the metrics we get. They're really good. Being able to drill down and find out where the CPU and memory bottlenecks are and being able to tune them is really helpful.

It's intuitive and user-friendly, especially with the new clients. It's really nice. It's really easy to use. The HTML 5 client is light years ahead of the old one. Everything runs faster, it loads a lot quicker, it's a lot cleaner, the UI is easier to navigate.

The stability is high. Normally, the problems we have are hardware problems, not virtualization problems. They're usually related to the hardware vendor.

You just need to pop in a new host, install ESX, and go.

I haven't needed to use technical support.

I've done expansion of it but I have not been involved in the initial build. What I have done is pretty easy. I've had some guidance but the documentation is online and a lot of it is easy to find.

Of course the licensing, if they could make it cheaper, that would help. But they have to build out new features, so I understand.

Everybody virtualizes now. It's just the thing you do. It's so efficient. I could go through the list but being able to consolidate infrastructure, you save time, you save money, it's just something you do.

They have done a pretty good job. The new client is really good.

Being able to get detailed analysis on different applications.

We are able to do additional detailed reports for our customers, in terms of certain spikes in the environment, different loads, etc.

Possibly additional automation.

It's pretty good. 

It's good.

We weren't using anything previously, but we're always looking at new technology, just to see if it might benefit the customer.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward.

Before implementation, review best practice guides. There are a lot of them out there. It will make the process easier.

Hyper-V and Acropolis.

We went with VMware's vROps because the customer selected it.

I would definitely recommend this solution.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: simplicity, functionality, but mainly simplicity. 

The most valuable feature must be positive planning and the way you can see real-time weekly updates, these are the plus points of this solution. If there is any kind of business constraint going on and the users of the stakeholders are asking for updates such as why it is down, or why is the CPU percentage low or can we have a historical trend., then all of this information you can easily get from the solution. So, we mainly use this solution for getting this data and putting it on paper, such as what is the particular time that something happened or this time the server went down, etc. Hence, it can give you a brief idea of the microscopic data.

There is scope to improve the computing aspect.

It is one of the best stable solutions out there. I have used vCOps prior to vROps so I cannot judge as to how the stability was before and how it is now.

We have Platinum Support so everything is in place, i.e., not only for vROps but for all the solutions that they provide, so their technical support is the best. The team is knowledgeable.

An engineer came to us from their end to help us to install and deploy the solution for us; it was a piece of cake for us.

I will definitely recommend vROps to others.

The most valuable feature is being able to drill down and look at the health of my VMs when we're having issues with them. Lately, it's been our CPU ready time problems; getting ready times and CPU demand.

The dashboards are nice, because I can have one pane and have everything that I want to see and not have to drill into new things every time.

It has improved how my organization functions. It's not easy to do, but they are nice to have. It is fairly complex to get specific data in a dashboard.

Easier-to-create dashboards would be nice. Right now, it is complex because you have to know exactly the piece of data you're looking for. When you're looking through all the different levels, if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, then it takes a lot of time and research to get that data.

The upgrade process has been painful in the past.

With about 7,000 VMs, I have not encountered any scalability issues thus far.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

Get some training. Get trained on it and make sure that you build it out correctly in the beginning. Size it correctly.

For me, the most valuable feature is the efficiency area because vROps helps us to recover undersized infrastructure.

The other feature we use is the management packs for our storage, for our SQL servers. Even though it is very slow with the SQL servers, it works fine.

My company is small; we have around 600 VMs. Before vROps, we had a lot of problems with performance. The full vROps reports showed me which VMs were overstressed. We don't have customized reports, yet.

The capacity management has saved us more than 30% on storage. We are trying to be an efficient data center. After vROps, we work better.

Make it easier to get customized reports; right now, it's very difficult.

I’d also like to see more integration with the storage servers we have.

Stability is better in this version than it was with vCOPS, which we came from.

We have only one vROps. We don't have a cluster. We know about the cluster, but we don't need it yet.

We have used their support page. They’re knowledgeable.

Initial setup was pretty easy. It took couple of hours.

Before we chose vROps, we also looked at EMC. All of our infrastructure is based on EMC and their servers. We liked the integration between vROPs, Dell, and EMC.

We use VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) for IT administrators to monitor our environment.

I have found the reporting tool, capacity planning, and reports for performance monitoring the most valuable features.

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) should improve instant monitoring. Currently, the monitoring is on an interval of five to ten minutes, if I want to know what is happening now I cannot.

I have been using VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) for approximately four years.

After three years of using the solution is started to have some operational issues. I was using version 6.5 or 6.7 and we had to restart the solution for it to function well. I believe the new version has fixed the issues we were facing.

The scalability of VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is limited. It should be open to any platform and handle hybrid deployments. For example, on-premise and cloud at the same time.

The technical support has been good in our experience.

The installation is a medium level of difficulty.

The price of the solution is expensive.

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is a good tool that users can use for reporting purposes, forecasting, performance analysis, and in-depth troubleshooting. It is very useful.

I rate VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) an eight out of ten.

We use it to monitor applications, infrastructures, and operating systems.

The real-time notifications are the most valuable feature.

I would like to have external add-ons and third-party support added to the solution.

It was not intuitive and user-friendly in the versions leading up to 6.5. After version 6.5, it improved and has been user-friendly.

It has issues that require manual handling, such as the server allows metrics. However, this is difficult to set up.

I have never had stability issues with this platform.

I haven't tested scalability.

I have never needed to use technical support.

I was holding the license, so I decided to give it a try. The solution proved itself.

The initial setup is very straightforward. The platform and add-on solutions are straightforward.

I implemented it on my own.

I have evaluated SolarWind and Microsoft SCOM. 

vROps's key value is its ability to have a hypervisor metrics of monitoring, which other products do not have.

If your infrastructure is VMware-based, you will get the most value out of the solution.

The predictive analytics and reporting.

It's been able to reduce our over-provisioning, help with ease of reporting, and billing.

Extendable API, for programming.

Had zero problems with stability.

Easy, very easy.

Very good. I've had no problems with support.

No.

It was intermediate. You had to understand exactly what you were deploying, so you could actually click all the right buttons.

Looking at vendor selection, you want reputability, and make sure that they have a good background and history of support.

The most important areas to research before making your decision are price and scalability of the solution.

This is the whole package, it has everything that you need.