VMware Aria Operations Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Virtualization Counsultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

May 20, 2013

Very flexible

It very helpful and flexible in infrastructure and cloud. You can see what is happening on your system and in the cloud.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 6, 2017

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Provides you with what you are trying to search for

What is most valuable?

The dashboard: Create your own dashboard and it will give you the right result that you want to see. It's very usable. It shows you many tricks that you can use. It provides you with what you are trying to search for.

How has it helped my organization?

Saves us lots of money.

Monitoring:

Regular stuff, such as if machines are up or down.
The CPU and how it is working.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I didn't scale it.

How is customer service and technical support?

I haven't used it.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If you have enough money to go to an enterprise company, don't go to another company. Use VMware. Other companies make a similar solution, but not as great.

What other advice do I have?

I don't think there is another company that makes cables better than VMware.

The most important criteria for choosing a vendor:

Support
Reputation of the vendor.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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Sr Virtualization Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 21, 2017

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Allows us to get an overview of our environment, the resources available, and if there are any outstanding issues.

What is most valuable?

Being able to get, at a glance:

An overview of your environment
The resources that you have available
If there are any outstanding issues

How has it helped my organization?

It allows us to give our end users performance data. They may ask about network utilization, compute utilization, or storage utilization. We're able to get that information in a central location and give it to our end users when they request it.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more multi-tenant support. I know that multi-tenant support was added recently, but expanding on that would be helpful for us.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Overall, it's pretty stable. I haven't had any stability issues with the product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I haven't really had to scale it, so I can't comment on that.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We weren’t using anything previously, but we started using it in our cloud environment. That's where we really identified a need for it. It also comes with the vCloud suite of applications. We deployed it because it comes with the vCloud suite.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the setup and it was really straightforward. It's like any other virtual appliance. You just deploy it and it just works.

What other advice do I have?

It's really a no-brainer. It really should be deployed in any fairly large VMware environment.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.