VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth vs vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] comparison

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Additionally, 90% of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (26th), Cloud Cost Management (6th)

vRealize Business for Cloud...

Average Rating

8.4

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Featured Reviews

Cláudio Braga

AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM

Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements

The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

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ThomasMeyer

Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig

Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management

The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have some experience with RackWare and Red Hat, and right now I believe this solution to be number one in the market."

"Compared to AWS, the historic data on CloudHealth is a lot more helpful."

"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations."

"Cloud Health has tremendous scope, and is on many clouds, including Google Cloud, Amazon, AWS, and Azure."

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers."

"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

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"The features I find most valuable about this solution is it helps us to automate all the provisioning activities on the platform."

"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."

"The product provides excellent daily reports."

"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 way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."

"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."

"The solution's cost management is very good."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."

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Cons

"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."

"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer."

"The Perspectives feature could be better. I would like to have more automation and flexibility to put in data and react to a certain event."

"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create an easier setup and implementation."

"CloudHealth doesn't have that capability; they can't reach down to that level right now."

"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

"When you start to virtualize things it gets very expensive."

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"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."

"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."

"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."

"The problem with VMware is the price."

"It's not always easy to find the information you need."

"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."

"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."

"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing model is complicated."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...

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What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?

This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...

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Also Known As

Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth

VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel

Overview

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth provides an intuitive dashboard, pricing flexibility, and accountability features, helping users allocate cloud costs, enhance security, and optimize expenses for improved cloud management.

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth stands out for its comprehensive cloud cost allocation by team, ensuring expense optimization and increased security. Its compliance management, scalability, and competitive pricing offer significant advantages. The platform facilitates monitoring across multi-cloud environments and delivers cost-saving recommendations. Transparent reporting and robust support enhance agility and aid in effective issue resolution.

What are the key features of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth?

Intuitive Dashboard: Simplifies cloud management with user-friendly interfaces.
Pricing Flexibility: Offers adaptable pricing models to suit diverse needs.
Accountability Features: Supports team-based cost allocation and tracking.
Compliance Management: Ensures security standards are consistently met.
Scalability: Supports elastic growth and resource management across environments.
Performance Optimization: Provides tools to optimize cloud performance and reduce waste.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth?

Cost Savings: Identifies opportunities to optimize cloud spending.
Improved Security: Enhances cloud security protocols and monitoring.
Transparent Reporting: Delivers clear and detailed usage and cost reports.
Efficient Issue Resolution: Streamlines processes for swift problem-solving.

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is extensively implemented for cloud expenditure management in multi-cloud landscapes, aiding sectors like finance, healthcare, and retail in leveraging dashboards for enhanced transparency and financial control. Users rely on the platform for monitoring health conditions, reporting costs, optimizing spending, and driving accountability through detailed analytics and insights.

Broadcom

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis

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