vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] Reviews

The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services. 

The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases.

I have been working with the product for three years. 

I would rate the product's stability an eight out of ten. 

I would rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten. 

The product's support is good 

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The tool's deployment is easy. The deployment speed depends on the network's speed and the target environment. The tool's maintenance can be handled by a single person. 

We did the product's deployment in-house. 

The product is a cost-effective solution. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. 

We are a solution integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.

This product is used by cloud providers to help manage their private and hybrid clouds. It is essentially a metering solution for VMware.

vRealize Business for Cloud integrates with the infrastructure and reports costs on resource usage.

The most valuable feature is the metering capability. It helps to bill clients on their usage of resources in the infrastructure.

The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved. The documentation can be improved, as well.

Stability-wise, this is a very good solution and we haven't heard about any problems with it from our customers.

Scalability has been good enough for our customers.

I have been in touch with technical support and find that they are good. We are satisfied with them.

Installation and integration are simple. However, the configuration and setting up the schema is something that has to be discussed in-depth with the customer. In more complex cases, it takes a good understanding and longer to design a correct schema.

The deployment, once it is designed, only takes a couple of hours.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to get as much information as possible from the vendor. It is important to understand it properly, in advance. If it is designed properly then you will get the best value because the scheme will be optimized.

Overall, this is a good solution and we have not had any problems, but I can't say that it is perfect because of the issues with the documentation and knowledge base.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.