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HPE Eucalyptus [EOL] vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Eucalyptus [EOL]
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Automation
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
172
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (3rd), Configuration Management (10th), Network Automation (7th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (27th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

HW
Manager Global Cloud Strategy & Lean IT at Mubasher
Good interface, and an easy initial setup with good community support on the free version
The customization should be improved. We should be able to diversify the machine for AWS. When we get involved with that right now, it becomes very bad. Some areas of configuration didn't work for us. The solution should offer more speed and should be able to stabilize the database environment. We've tried to do this, but it hasn't been solid. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If we want to do an interceptor, what we need is a really high level of TT programming or a specific configuration to be able to scale it out. It works to some extent, but it's not strong. When it does not implement in our center we have to go and manually fix it. The solution should be able to better scale the number of users, especially when you're using the cloud. The solution should extend better into the Microsoft community and companies should be able to run it on Azure Cloud.
VasilisGiannitsiotis - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT at ITSolutions
Automation has streamlined complex financial workflows but still needs more intuitive orchestration
Something to improve in VMware Aria Automation would be related to VCF 9, as I do not know what it is trying to bring because they exposed it as the solution of everything. So VCF 9 will bring VCF Automation and VCF Operations, the new product line of VMware. I have not seen what this brings or what else it includes. Maybe in the area of vRealize Orchestrator, this would be beneficial because VRO can do everything. Perhaps a more user-friendly way to use that tool would be helpful because the possibilities there are endless. I am looking for more user-friendly navigation in VMware Aria Automation.

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

Pros

"Eucalyptus should see good momentum if AWS propagates the theory of Hybrid cloud as the APIs in Eucalyptus are greatly compatible with AWS and serves as a great private cloud option for enterprises."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the interface on the console."
"It has reduced provisioning time from roughly three to six weeks to about an hour on a private cloud, and about 25 minutes on public cloud."
"It cuts out a lot of waste, unutilized hardware, and improves performance."
"We have integrated our CICD pipeline into an automatic catalog request through some API calls. It can request and provision new virtual machines behind the NSX load balancer, straight out of the CIDC pipeline and add those nodes to the load balancer, request SSL certs, do SSL termination at the load balancer so that it's not encrypted behind the scenes, all of which has really been helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see both compliance and vulnerabilities in a dashboard view."
"We use it to deploy databases and testing environments. It spins up quickly and also break down fast."
"As it provides maximum functionality, it keeps automation short and sweet, and this helps writing automation in a modular format."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The most valuable features are how it takes what we used to do in the same process as manual steps and automates them, such as creating servers, and it's self-service for creating your own virtual machine."
 

Cons

"The customization should be improved."
"When we get involved with that right now, it becomes very bad."
"Customer Service: Requires improvement Technical Support: Good but could have been beeter"
"vRealize Automation on the back-end is still a little complicated. It has a lot of moving pieces, simplifying that from a pure infrastructure point of view would be a good thing. I would then like to have more out-of-the-box functionality and integrations with VMware components."
"I think they are going to have a tough time with the Enterprise licensing. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"I would like to see a simpler way of provisioning it. As is, we can automate the provisioning of a VM, however, when it comes to the external IPs, that is outside of VMware."
"New versions are quite scalable, but when it comes to managing a Telco environment, it has bottleneck."
"It was a complex setup. We had to use the consultant from VMware to make the solution work well."
"Better training, or training modules, wouldn't hurt."
"The initial setup was complex from beginning to delivery. The current version is a bit more complex than version 7 to deploy."
 

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"SaltStack is an open-source product."
"It is an open-source product."
"From the customer perspective, the value was worth it."
"I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with ten being very expensive."
"VMware Aria Automation is expensive."
"The solution is pretty expensive but provides good workload management."
"A simplified version for small businesses would be good."
"The solution is free of cost."
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Manufacturing Company
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Construction Company
7%
 

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Also Known As

Eucalyptus, HP Eucalyptus
VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite, SaltStack
 

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