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Microsoft Azure portal vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure portal
Ranking in Cloud Management
43rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Automation
Ranking in Cloud Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
172
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (8th), Network Automation (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (19th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Duy AnhMai - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Heineken
Integrated data storage has supported large teams and simplified connections with other tools
The speed and performance are satisfactory to me, and overall everything meets my needs. I do not have specific improvements in mind that Microsoft Azure portal needs to implement. Regarding AI products, I am uncertain about their capabilities. Both Microsoft Azure portal and AWS offer similar AI deployment options. Currently, my organization does not use AI products in Microsoft Azure portal or another cloud platform, so I cannot comment further on this aspect.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My personal opinion is that the ecosystem of Microsoft is very large, and I can use many platforms related to Microsoft, such as Microsoft Power Platform, which makes it easy to integrate with other Microsoft-related platforms."
"Official documentation and community support are top notch."
"I would recommend vRealize Automation."
"The most valuable features are the Catalog View and the access control business group, as access provisioning is the main use case for us, allowing us to separate access to different Catalog items among different business groups and tie that back to our AD LDAP systems."
"The most valuable feature would be the scalability, as it's very easy to add more capacity once it's set up, and in terms of provisioning, it has definitely helped speed-wise by simplifying making the environment bigger without the downtime of waiting for more hardware."
"We're automating a lot of OS builds, and the front-end gives us a way for users to go and request those services and the orchestrator part lets us automate a lot of the functions involved in them."
"It has made it easier for IT to support developers, and our tech support people are happy with it."
"It benefits the speed of our development, and the speed of anything we test and send through to production."
"We've been using this product for a while and the stability is fantastic."
 

Cons

"When comparing Microsoft Azure portal with AWS, the cost of Microsoft Azure is higher than AWS."
"The deployment mechanisms for the initial deployment of the product line lacks the appropriate documentation to give someone who's never used it before... There might be cases where someone wants to go to the website, go to the doc section, and do a step-by-step on how to deploy it. That's really not as brushed-up as other documents I've seen that they have. That would definitely be an improvement on their end."
"It's not a smooth upgrade process. For a DTA environment, which is very simple, it is a smooth process, but for our production environment, which is quite enhanced and has a lot of dependencies, it's not easy at all, and it results in a lot of errors... It takes a lot of retries to upgrade which ends up being costly."
"I would like them to improve the product training."
"Master/minion connections are subject to hijacking, privilege escalation, and/or information leaks."
"For the administrator, it can be a little challenging. For the administrator, there are a lot of moving parts. It is fine once you figure out where the knobs are you need to twiddle, but it can be a challenge to get it up and running."
"If you are using Aria Automation by itself, you won't get the features you want, and the license cost is high."
"The setup was complex in many ways. The first reason is that we have many teams who work on it so it gets complicated gathering all of the people needed."
"The stability on the 6.2 version is very bad. It crashes. VMware tech support knows the IIS component is a bit buggy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We have seen significant ROI. We used to have physical servers, it took 90 days to get a server, order it, buy it, and get it in. We have it down to 10 minutes, building a server with virtualization, and now that's too slow. So, we let the customer do it at their speed. Therefore, it is pretty much up in a couple of minutes and they have a server."
"SaltStack is an open-source product."
"There is confusion between licensing levels. There are three different licensed versions of vRealize Automation, and there are different things which can happen in each of them."
"The pricing is very high."
"So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
"The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market."
"Customers say this solution is costlier compared to its competitors."
"This is an expensive product and the high price is starting to become an issue for us."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise130
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure portal?
The speed and performance are satisfactory to me, and overall everything meets my needs. I do not have specific improvements in mind that Microsoft Azure portal needs to implement. Regarding AI pro...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure portal?
I use Microsoft Azure portal primarily for storage and data storage purposes. I have been using Microsoft Azure portal for about three years. At Heineken Vietnam and Heineken Global, we always use ...
What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Azure portal?
Microsoft Azure portal is acceptable to me, and I believe other cloud options such as AWS or Google Cloud are comparable. Both Microsoft Azure portal and AWS offer similar AI deployment capabilitie...
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 there any way to try VMware Aria Automation for free?
When it comes to VMware Aria Automation, you have three choices for free runs: Hands-on Lab (HOL) Advanced lab A free trial I cannot describe in detail the second and third options as my company ...
Which sectors can benefit the most from VMware Aria Automation?
I was looking at VMware Aria Automation case studies recently and I got the impression that three main kinds of companies were using it most often: Social organizations Financial institutions and ...
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual
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