Morpheus vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

Morpheus Data and VMware are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Morpheus Data is ranked #9 with an average rating of 6.7, while VMware is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6. Morpheus Data holds a 7.8% mindshare in CM, compared to VMware’s 8.1% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Morpheus Data users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMware Aria Operations and Morpheus compete in the cloud management space. VMware Aria Operations has an advantage in performance optimization and predictive analytics, whereas Morpheus stands out with its extensive automation capabilities and user-friendly interface.

Features: VMware Aria Operations offers predictive analytics, capacity planning, and seamless integration capabilities with its monitoring tools. It is especially noted for its performance optimization and robust alerting systems. Morpheus excels in cloud management with a focus on automation, offering strong multi-cloud integration and a flexible environment that users find intuitive.

Room for Improvement: VMware Aria Operations could benefit from a more intuitive user interface and improved alert management to simplify configuration for users. Enhanced integration capabilities are also desirable. Morpheus faces challenges with complex navigation for advanced features and requires better support for workflow automation and integration within virtual environments like NSX-T, along with improved multi-tenancy support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Aria Operations provides deployment flexibility across on-premises, hybrid, and public clouds, though user experiences with technical support vary, sometimes involving slower resolutions. Morpheus, praised for its hybrid cloud support and consistent customer service, can enhance guidance for complex deployments.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Operations often requires higher upfront costs due to a licensing model that can become expensive as environments scale, yet offers substantial ROI from operational efficiencies. Morpheus presents a more flexible and potentially cost-effective pricing model based on the number of virtual machines, particularly beneficial for multi-cloud environments, though costs may increase with larger implementations.

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Categories and Ranking

Morpheus

Ranking in Cloud Management

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Aria Operations

Ranking in Cloud Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

374

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Morpheus is 7.8%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 8.1%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Mark Wittling

Cloud Architect at Cox communications

Astonishing automation capabilities, a lot of third-party integrations, and extremely simple upgrades

It supports many features, and it also supports some of the automation that Cloudify supports. So, in addition to just giving you basic platform management—such as the ability to deploy virtual machines and have multitenancy to log in and perform all of your basic platform management tasks—it also supports automation. You can, for example, spin up three virtual machines, and you can have each virtual machine configure each other. You can do service chaining with it. You can run scripts in Dash and Python, or you can use tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. All of this is just built into the tool. It is a very powerful tool. The automation capabilities in Morpheus are just astonishing, and it also supports a lot of third-party integrations out of the box. So, you don't need to write code. If you have a backup solution, such as Avamar, instead of you having to write all of the scripting and coding to make that work, they have plugins. You just install the plugin, and it snaps right into their GUI and works out of the box. It is very easy to set up, and it is extremely simple to do an upgrade. It is one of the best upgradable solutions I've come across.

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Amar Sorro

Team Lead Virtualization at Hybrid Tech

Manage and monitor crucial banking operations with deep logging and efficient alerting

The most valuable features of VMware Aria Operations include its excellent monitoring capabilities. It allows me to perform deep monitoring and logging of the entire environment, providing a quick alarm and warning system through email. These features help me in efficiently managing virtual machines. The solution also offers easy access to VMware KB articles for problem resolution, ensuring quick access to troubleshooting information.

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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

"The user interface of the application is exceptional."

"The most valuable feature for me was cost optimization."

"It supports many features, and it also supports some of the automation that Cloudify supports. So, in addition to just giving you basic platform management—such as the ability to deploy virtual machines and have multitenancy to log in and perform all of your basic platform management tasks—it also supports automation. You can, for example, spin up three virtual machines, and you can have each virtual machine configure each other. You can do service chaining with it. You can run scripts in Dash and Python, or you can use tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. All of this is just built into the tool. It is a very powerful tool."

"The multi-cloud integrations and the DevOps and operational integrations are the most valuable. Morpheus platform is a centralized set to manage different clouds and your on-premise platforms. It does a very good job of what it is designed to do. It is very good in terms of features. It is extremely stable and easy to install. It is also very scalable. Their support is also extremely good."

"Morpheus provides a very easy and one-click solution to scaling up and down."

"Provides a good automation platform."

"The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves."

"Morpheus is an intuitive solution that is very easy to use."

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"One of the best features is the monitoring. It gives you proactive recommendations, based on the information that you have. It recommends changes. For example, if an ESX service is heavily loaded, it will tell you to make some changes, such as storage optimizations. Every tool does monitoring, but this one gives you more proactive monitoring, with the recommendations and actions that are needed."

"We have all the information that we need in one place and don't have to search for our monitoring tools everywhere."

"We can actually use it to expand on other aspects of it by adding additional packs is really good."

"We are not constantly having to babysit or troubleshoot it. It does what it is designed to do, and it does a very good job of it."

"vRealize has a very nice dashboard. It integrates well with other products such as those from Oracle."

"Vmware always gives us the best support. They are friendly to talk to and they understand the real impact of what's happening. They are trying to get into the issue as one of your team. They also fit into your working hours to solve your issues."

"From a troubleshooting standpoint, beforehand it took us a lot of time to actually go into esxtop, pull the actual raw data that was actually happening from a storage level, a network level, a CPU/VCPU and memory level. But having all of these resources at our fingertips, from a graphical user interface, we can pinpoint the pitfall very easily"

"It does exactly what I program it to do at this point, which is to tell me if I've got machines running out of disk space or over-utilizing CPU or memory. The monitoring component of it is the most valuable feature."

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Cons

"The tool could support virtual network functions better. It is really good at doing enterprise-type of things, but one of the things on which we're working with them is loading very complex virtual machines with it, such as Juniper SRX routers. It needs to support more complex virtualized resources a little bit better. Aside from that, it is a terrific tool. We really like it."

"I faced a few problems while deploying."

"We had to put in much effort ourselves since Morpheus's support wasn't always available to help us."

"Morpheus is working hard on creating an integration framework due for release in Q2 2021 which will allow clients to create their own interfaces and integrations into any 3rd party product that has a full-function API. Morpheus is also heavily focussed on enhancing the container management side to compete head-to-head with Openshift and CloudForms in Q3 2021."

"We've been facing some challenges with Morpheus due to its design for public cloud usage."

"The service is limited and somewhat lacking."

"There is room for enhancement in integrating Morpheus with other solutions."

"The solution's pricing and customization need to improve."

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"vROps is, by its nature, a very complex product."

"The solution must provide better training options to help us make the most of the tool."

"I rated this solution an eight and not a ten because we work to give a multi-tenant product to our customers and vROps doesn't meet our needs."

"It would break, and you would have to go fix it. Then it would break, and they would have some other guys that knew a bit more about it, and they fixed it."

"vROps is user-friendly, but configuration is a little bit hard. It is also hard if you want to customize it for your data center, especially without VMware training. The user interface should be improved so that a new user can easily configure it for his own use."

"With our environment right now, stability is the one sticking point. There hasn't been a great deal of handholding in between the different versions, so we've run into problems with there being what I would call "more than just the average change between versions" and it's caused a loss of data for us in the past."

"One area that needs improvement is the solution's connectivity and integration with other products, such as IBM and Huawei servers and storage."

"The one thing that I am always missing is training specific to Horizon. There is no training class you can go to for the Horizon add-on for vROps. I'd like to see specific training for Horizon admins, as opposed to general vSphere admins."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model."

"Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly."

"Licensing is on an annual basis, and it is upfront for the year. There is no extra cost unless you want additional support or specific deployment packs."

"Morpheus doesn't directly support cost optimization, but its API integration can facilitate resource optimization. It doesn't dynamically optimize resources like an aeronautic system would; it operates step by step."

"The solution is cheaper if you have less number of servers, but it becomes very expensive for a large number of servers."

"The solution has a huge cost. If we could just have one license covering everything that vROps can do, that would be great. I would prefer it this way."

"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 definitely seen ROI by removing unnecessary servers and VMs. By having vROps as an assistant when it comes to monitoring and managing resources, it has helped us a lot with cost savings and managing expenses."

"VMware support is very costly compared to other organizations' support. When you purchase a VMware product, such as vSphere or vROps, the license is perpetual, but you also have to purchase the support service for a number of years. The support service pricing is very high compared to the license, and compared to competitive vendors."

"The pricing: It's expensive."

"There's a smaller category that stands out due to its affordability, especially for recent versions, which I rate as four or five in terms of value. However, if you're looking for a vCenter with older, more advanced features, it comes at a significantly higher cost, and I would rate it around ten. They provide us with a choice between a recent version and one integrated, and I lean towards the former."

"The licensing is quite expensive for our company."

"Our manpower costs have been reduced due to the automation in conjunction with the usage of the dashboard."

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Computer Software Company

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Educational Organization

15%

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Financial Services Firm

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14%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Morpheus?

The most beneficial features for us were the API integrations with various cloud vendors like Nutanix, VMware, AWS, Azure, and GCP. It saved us the effort of doing that work ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Morpheus?

We've been a Morpheus customer since the early days. I know what they're trying to sell now, and you'd really need a strong use case to justify the cost.

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What needs improvement with Morpheus?

The product has become overly complex. The biggest problem is that we find a bug, they fix the bug, but then another one pops up. We can never really deliver on the vision we had using Morpheus. We...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Comparisons

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs Morpheus

Compared 11% of the time

VMware Cloud Director vs Morpheus

Compared 8% of the time

Cloudify vs Morpheus

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

Nutanix Prism vs VMware Aria Operations

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

Morpheus Cloud Management Platform, Morpheus CMP

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

Overview

Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.

Morpheus Data

VMware Aria Operations is a high-ranking virtualization management and cloud management tool that automates and simplifies IT management to the applications it supports. It achieves this through full-stack visibility from physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. The product allows users to enable self-driving IT operations management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This is conducted with the unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, and integrated compliance through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics.

VMware Aria Operations Use Cases

VMware Aria Operations has several use cases, some of which include:

Continuous performance optimization: VMware Aria Operations allows users to assure application performance at a minimal cost, facilitated by real-time predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. The product can be used to automatically balance workloads, improve consolidation rations, optimize and rightsize workloads, and avoid contention.
Capacity and cost management: VMware Aria Operations can be utilized to reduce cost and improve efficiency with real-time ML-based capacity and cost analytics. The solution uses these tools to visualize cost savings opportunities and accelerate decision-making.
Intelligent remediation: This product can also be used to predict, prevent, and troubleshoot issues with actionable insights. Through other VMware integrations, users can streamline and centralize IT operations.
Integrated compliance: The solution can be utilized to reduce risk and enforce IT regulatory standards for VMware Cloud through integrated compliance and automated drift remediation.

VMware Aria Operations Features

The product has various features which users can utilize. Several of the features that the 2022 version of VMware Aria Operations introduced include:

Management pack builder: This feature is a no-code solution that allows users to expand their operations visibility to anywhere they wish. The builder allows users to connect to a data source using an HTTP or Amazon AWS data source, as well as to make API calls, create objects, and build out relationships with other objects in the product.
Public cloud basic actions: This is a set of features that allows VMware Aria Operations users to initiate actions automatically via the product's UI for AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP CE instances.
Rule-based application discovery: Through this new feature of the product, users can easily discover multiple applications running in all or specific areas of infrastructure and view associated resources. This can be achieved through simple user-defined rules, including discovering applications based on tags, object names, and properties.
Aria Operations capacity management: This feature allows organizations to view the results of what-if analysis based on their allocation model and specify business hours for capacity calculations.
Alerts: This is a set of features that include components called Conditions and Symptoms, which are used to alert different types of issues on the platform.
User access management: Through this feature, users can benefit from improved ways to configure in VMware Aria Operations with the introduction of scopes.
Support for raw device mapping storage: This feature allows users to get configuration details about their raw device mapping (RDM), such as disk sharing, compatibility mode, and SCSI Bus Sharing.

VMware Aria Operations Benefits

VMware Aria Operations brings various benefits to the organizations using it. Among them are the following:

The product helps organizations reduce unplanned downtime and maximize return on investment (ROI) in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
VMware Aria Operations simplifies management for hybrid clouds from migration assessments.
Users can benefit from an accelerated journey to VMware Cloud on AWS through this solution.
The product can be delivered on premises or as a service, providing flexibility for its users.
VMware Aria Operations can increase operational efficiency through monitoring and management features.
The solution accelerates decision-making through detailed cost analytics, which is visualized for users' convenience.
VMware Aria Operations allows users to both utilize standard compliance templates and create their own custom ones.

Reviews from Real Users

Mohamed N., a tech lead VMware support engineer at a tech services company, appreciates VMware Aria Operations because it is easy to use, stable, and support is always available.

Mojtaba K., a senior system administrator at a comms service provider, values VMware Aria Operations due to the fact that its dashboards give you a glimpse of what is really going on in your virtualized environment.

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Sample Customers

Morpheus CMP, mcdonalds, blackrock, HSBC, astrazeneca, arris, WGU, GBG, pennstate, beyondtrust

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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