Share your experience using VMware Aria Operations for Applications

I primarily use the solution for consulting. I help company DevOps teams. 

The companies are already using VMware technologies and Tanzu helps them be compatible with other technologies. 

The company is able to use native Kubernetes. It can support open-source technologies. If you have trouble putting these together with VMware, you get help.

VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support. 

It's a good, useful technology. It does help with third-party integration. 

The solution can scale.

It is stable.

Technical support has been okay. 

It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems.

The initial setup should be easier and more seamless. 

I've used the solution for one year. 

The solution is stable. I'd rate it seven or eight out of ten. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

It is not exactly scalable. Cloud services are far more scalable. That said, Kubernetes is scalable, and I haven't had issues with scaling. 

I've dealt with support. It's okay.

Neutral

The initial setup can be complex. It's hard to set up clusters. 

It takes about one technical person if they understand the clusters. However, it's helpful to get the network and security team involved as well.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. It's a useful tool if you are using VMware. 

We use Tanzu in our encryption company. We use this solution to prepare products for our designer and for sites that are used internally.

We are using version 1.2. The solution is deployed on-premises. There are about 100 people using this solution in my organization. 

We also use Kubernetes and HA Proxy.

The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility.

The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved.

We tested this product for two years, and I have used it for one year.

There were problems with stability that were solved in the last update.

The solution is easy to scale.

I have only contacted technical support because of a problem with the proxy on a previous version.

Setup was difficult because of the documentation. Now that I understand it, I can reinstall and test a new version in less than two hours.

It takes times to learn how the infrastructure works.

If they are familiar with the solution, three people are enough for installation.

We deployed with a vendor.

I would rate the pricing as three out of five.

I would rate this solution as eight out of ten. 

When installing this solution, my advice is to watch videos about the installation because the text documentation is difficult to understand.