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CloudBolt vs VMware Aria Suite comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (26th), Cloud Cost Management (33rd)
VMware Aria Suite
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control
The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.
it_user224100 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSIO Infrastructure Engineer at Wyndham Destination Network - RCI Europe
Key benefits include the ability to identify resource usage and hot spots.
I have been using Operations Manager for the last few months since reviewing my licence structure and procuring the Enterprise Plus, management bundle. Having a number of distributed vSphere environments spread across the UK and Europe has presented a number of challenges in terms of centralised alerting and reporting. With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly - reducing the labour that was previously causing issues. Key benefits:- * Ability to identify resource usage and hot spots * Understand where I can reclaim resources * Trend and forecast my virtual landscape by adding projects

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CloudBolt's ease of use, coupled with our initial focus on fully automating infrastructure deployment, has won accolades from our internal stakeholders."
"Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months."
"Customer Service: World class."
"We were able to save enough from reduced support cost associated with maintaining and operating our previous cloud management platform within months to pay for CloudBolt."
"I find the self-service features valuable."
"CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manual provisioning effort, enabling faster environment delivery, and improving governance, standardization, and visibility."
"The product takes care of a hybrid cloud environment and it helps me maintain control and insight across various cloud platforms."
"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."
"I found the ease of use with Operations Manager Dashboard and providing complete visibility of your infrastructure most valuable."
"This is our lifeblood, our ability to be pro-active instead of retroactive, and without it, it hurts our bottom line."
"Thanks guys – you managed to turn around an extremely frustrating experience into something more positive."
"With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly, reducing the labour that was previously causing issues."
 

Cons

"The management of SaaS must be improved."
"I had an issue with the scheduling feature of CloudBolt, but I'm not sure if that's been fixed in the new version."
"The MCP is still at a very early stage in CloudBolt."
"For improvements, I would say that they could maybe increase the number of integrations and add more out-of-the-box work flows and possibly a new or improved user interface."
"The scheduling feature of CloudBolt needs improvement because sometimes, it doesn't work."
"We did find it was a bit challenging to scale horizontally behind a load balancer in an active/active configuration."
"CloudBolt can be improved. It needs way more customizations when it comes to provisioning itself."
"Support for containers is basic and needs improvement."
"I would like the reporting function to be made more complete."
"It’s hardly the most streamlined deployment experience is it? It’s ironic that an application designed to orchestrate operations can’t orchestrate its installation a bit better!"
"It has color coding to an extent, but it needs more colors to tag more diversely."
"I would like to see the vrealize Suite support the Mcrosoft Azure"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten because the solution is expensive."
"The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBolt?
We are doing a lot of customization. For example, if I want to do a custom scheme or if I want to do a static IP, these kinds of flows I still need to do very manually or through a script, so it wo...
What is your primary use case for CloudBolt?
My main use case for CloudBolt is provisioning servers. We have a VM environment, so we would use a CloudBolt template and then map it to CloudBolt environment and provision the server for our prod...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBolt?
My advice for others looking into using CloudBolt is that if you are a server admin, it is very useful. I would advise you that CloudBolt will be very useful for your needs.
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