We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."
"The pricing is rather competitive right now."
"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."
"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."
"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"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."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."
"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
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VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 3rd in Cloud Cost Management with 9 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with Azure Cost Management, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations, Cloudability and Densify, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Automation.
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