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HPE OneSphere vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HPE OneSphere
Ranking in Cloud Management
44th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Operations
Ranking in Cloud Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
376
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of HPE OneSphere is 1.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 3.8%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Operations3.8%
HPE OneSphere1.6%
Other94.6%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user781113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Data Strategy
Worked right the first time out-of-the-box; we were provisioning to AWS within 10 minutes
Ironically, most of the features that we might have wanted to see were already introduced in the product announcement today, from what we saw in the beta, which was kind of cool. You can't come to market unless you have Azure support, and Azure was all over every slide we saw, so that was pretty cool. A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced. It is way too easy to provision a VM onto a public cloud, wide open to everybody. So, there are a couple of issues there. We are obviously going to talk with the product teams and the architects about some of those things; a handful of things here and there. Most of the things we were looking for were already included. Things that we had requested a month ago, we are now seeing them here: Azure Stack integration and the OneView integration. These were the things we were saying, "Hey, if these were there, it would be really cool. We could use this." All of a sudden, "Oh hey, guess what is going to be at launch?" I am very eager to get my hands on the next version of this product, and to see what may or may not be missing.
AldoDomini - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Network Analyst at Net spa
Have faced limitations due to high costs but have maintained reliability over time
The primary issue is the pricing, which is very expensive for my company's budget. We cannot afford to pay such a large fee. We are not Microsoft or BMW; we are a small company. As a small company, I have no power to negotiate directly with VMware. Perhaps larger companies have more opportunity to contract directly with VMware, but I do not have that leverage. The only path I can follow is to change solutions. Net.spA is a company working in the field of waste management. We are not a technological company, so we do not have a large margin to justify purchasing and maintaining the VMware infrastructure at current costs.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"OneSphere being a SaaS platform, you do not have to deal with those issues, it is in quickly and you can begin utilizing it right away."
"With all the time and investment in all the competitive products, still it makes them not even a competitor anymore, with how this works."
"Being able to use the automation side of it is the most valuable feature of this solution that we have found so far."
"Through the trending analysis that we can do, it allowed us to quickly and easily right-size the capacity from a cluster."
"The most valuable feature I see is how it dynamically figures out the environment."
"I find the stability of VMware Aria Operations to be impressive, rated as a stable nine out of ten."
"I would definitely suggest you use it; it's a really good tool for what we use it for, for troubleshooting machines."
"It's valuable because it helps us look at our performance statistics for our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with the vSphere Client and being able to go quickly back and forth between an incident within the vSphere interface and the actual drilling into it within vROps, to identify problems."
"I recommend it; I think it’s a good choice."
 

Cons

"A couple of things that I did see, there are a couple of security features that need to be enhanced."
"We are looking to be able to set a hard budget for the workspaces or projects."
"Technical support could be better. This has been a problem with many VMware products in the last few years, the support has not been good."
"Also, I think it should be cheaper, especially at an enterprise level."
"It's a little bit scattered. I have to go through a lot of steps to get everything in one place. I would like it that if you click on one cluster, you get all the information from the host, VMs, whatever is there. Sometimes I have to go to different places to get the information."
"Also, it is very CPU intensive."
"We have had some issues with the vROps server not really responding real quickly at times and we've actually had to rebuild it a few times."
"It was very complex. That were a lot of the calls to tech support."
"Monitoring our vSAN environment still seems to be touch and go. It doesn't always report correctly on that."
"More HTML 5 would also be good. I wish vSphere Client would mirror it. I wish they announced it on day one of 6.7."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way."
"The initial costs are a bit on the higher side but the licensing is flexible."
"The license is a one time cost, and you pay for support on a yearly basis. It is a bit expensive, but if you consider the product support and its reliability, it's justifiable."
"We have seen good ROI results. It has made our lives easier."
"The optimization is a huge return on investment alone."
"Pricing could always be cheaper, but it's acceptable."
"The solution is slightly expensive."
"In terms of the pricing for VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), I can't remember exactly how much it costs, but it was included in the VMware vSphere enterprise plus licensing package my company paid for."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise281
 

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What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...
Is VMware Aria Operations a user friendly solution?
In terms of user-friendliness, VMware Aria Operations is one of the best solutions out there. It is not overly complex to set up and you can rely on the technical support to provide you with assis...
What is the most useful new feature of VMware Aria Operations?
For me, the alerts features are the most unique part of this product, no matter the current name it uses. When they introduced the new version of VMware Aria Operations, they also introduced more a...
 

Also Known As

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VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)
 

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Sample Customers

Land O’Lakes
Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
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