VMware Aria Operations Reviews

• 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.

My main uses are monitoring performance reports and connecting to the VMware login site.

vROps has helped us monitor our VMs and track where problems are in the network.

The most valuable features are the alerts and dashboard, and that the product is simple to use, configure, and upgrade.

There are some problems with integration, particularly with Slack, though these have been improved in the latest release.

I've been using this solution for two years.

This is a stable solution.

vROps is scalable - you can change the resources for it as much as you want.

In general, the technical team are good - however, my latest experiences have not been as good because some of the team members lack experience and can't help with your problem.

The initial setup is easy and takes about four hours.

We implemented using an in-house team.

We use a one-time license for vROps and have not had any additional costs.

I would rate this solution as eight out of ten.

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.

Saves us lots of money.

Monitoring:

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

I didn't scale it.

I haven't used it.

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.

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.

Being able to get, at a glance:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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