VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We use vROps a lot to do trouble shooting, especially in terms of performance. Also, it helps to utilize our resources, because we can help if the machine is oversized or if it's undersized.

We've gone from having no insight (into the type of resources which we're using) to a lot of insight. This provides a lot of different reports as to how to keep our business running efficiently.

Possibility getting the additional features onto physical boxes in the next release.

It's stable. It doesn't crash.

We like the scalability of the product so far.

We're using another professional services group for this.

We invested in this solution because them management team asked, "Why are you spending this much money on hardware when you're not using it?"

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

We have 11 different pieces of the VMR environment. We had to go through and upgrade them all getting everything done in the right order.

The product is useful and it helps, especially going into a conversation with other IT staff and management.

Because we are implementing Workspace ONE and Identity Manager, it helps us figure out that process. To scale properly, we need to get proper measurements to know how much storage we need and how much processing we need from a retail perspective.

Better reporting functionality would help plus an automated reporting functionality, because we don't sit with the product all the time.

It's very new to us.

Stability works fine.

I have not used technical support.

It wasn't very good.

Important considerations: Support would probably be number one, then how much pertinent information is provided.

I also think it's important working with a partner. We didn't initially, but we did get involved with a partner that helped us to understand the products better.

The most valuable feature is the ability to drill down and figure out exactly where CPU and memory contention could possibly be.

It helps with troubleshooting and figuring out where an issue actually could be, which helps us pinpoint what the issue might actually be.

I would like to see some ability for automatic mitigation or scripting. If we see an issue, I’d like to have automatic remediation for it, or be able to do a one-click or one-touch to remediate some issues that we see.

Stability is good.

I have not used technical support.

We're currently using vCOPS in our VDI environment. I guess we're just showcasing both of them at the same time to figure out weaknesses and issues. vROps is doing better than vCOps, I guess, with the ability to drill down and figure out granular issues.

When selecting a vendor like VMware, my most important criteria is stability, the length of time they've been around, as well who their current customers are.

Demo it out first before you buy it.

The most valuable features are the alerts about the environment because that way, if we have a server that goes down, a cluster we know about, or if there's a performance issue, we'll be alerted about it.

If we have one server in a cluster that went down or if we lost a network adapter, we would be able to know.

Anything that is more helpful to vSAN performance, such as dashboards.

Stability's good, stays up and running all the time.

I haven't really needed to scale, we have small companies.

I haven't been too impressed. There seems to be a lot of running around or not hearing back.

Our VMware salesperson recommended it.

Somewhere in the middle of straightforward and complex. I remember setting it up and dashboards would have empty data, and I'd have to do Google searches to figure out how to fix it.

Most important when selecting a vendor are support and performance.

It's a great product if you can get it to work properly and function according to your needs.

The reclaimable capacity feature. It makes it easy to go and find over-provisioned VMs and then reclaim that capacity for use in other areas.

We get better use out of our hosts.

I can't think of any, really. We've run into a some small issues with our storage, but I don't believe it's because of the storage. It's because of some issues we have in a couple of our datacenters.

Seems okay. Just stand up data collectors or remote data collectors as you need them.

I have not contacted technical support but I do have a VM team contact. They're knowledgeable and would be able to answer my questions, for sure.

Well, we ran into an issue with the version we were running, and we found that that issue had been resolved in the newest revision. We found out through our EMC partner which is on the project.

I installed it. It was fairly easy. We just upgraded and the user interface is much better.

We have a team that is contracted to work on our project.

Dell, EMC.

In our case, all our hardware is Dell, our storage is EMC and our software is VMware, so it's a one point of contact for all of our support.

Definitely take a look at Operations Manager. It seems to fit really well within the environment.

• Custom dashboard
• Out-band (get alert in a text file)
• Capacity planner

• Capacity planning
• Alerts dashboard
• Get all the alerts from the external network and use ELK to show them in the production environment.

There was a collection bug and some alert bugs (didn’t show all the alerts and popped up fake alarms).

I’ve used this for four years: three years with vCOps 5.x and one year with vROps 6.x.

We have encountered stability issues. I redeployed the cluster twice.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is 8/10.

Installation is simple.

We checked three solutions and we chose vROps for our environment.

Read the installation guide and tech blogs.

I mainly use vROps for dashboards in our main IT screens to monitor the environment and track information.

vROps' best feature is the easy integration with the environment.

In the next release, vROps should add integration with Apache OpenStack.

I've been using vROps for three to four years.

vROps is pretty stable.

vROps' technical support is pretty good.

vROps is easy to set up, deploy, and start using, with no need to spend time doing custom things.

I used an in-house team.

I completely recommend vROps to other users as it will make their lives much easier, and I would rate it nine out of ten.

The whole feature set, to be honest. Monitoring and, for me, the performance analysis.

It helps us to create better reports of historical analysis, of performance data, and do better capacity planning.

More stable upgrades, if that's a feature. Had some problems so far. Also, more reliable failure detection and more realistic out-of-the-box simplicity.

Quite good.

Could be better, to be honest.

It was okay. I'm not always able to get to the right person. It takes a while. Once I do reach the right person they are usually knowledgeable.

I stumbled into VMware and never got out, to be honest. It's been cool technology for multiple years.

It was straightforward.

We are the partner so we implement.

Nutanix, Rubrik, Cohesity.

When choosing a vendor the most important criteria are experience, maturity and, probably, documentation.

I would advise you get training because it's not so easy to start with and not get lost in vROps. Also, have everything ready the partner tells you to have and have straight expectations about what a solution does and does not do.