We performed a comparison between Nutanix Prism and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtualization Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nutanix Prism is popular in the Indian market, particularly in enterprises where they need a DR type of environment, and where they look for less than finite RPO and RTO. If you have this environment on-premises, and if you can just rent out some portion to any of the service providers, then you can easily set up a DR environment to give you a finite list versus RPO and RTO."
"Has a user-friendly UI with a centralized console."
"Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."
"Prism is easy to scale."
"One valuable aspect of Nutanix Prism is how easy it is to set up. The setup process is useful to us because all we need to do is to set some variables and go with the recommended settings."
"Nutanix Prism is very simple to use compared to other products. I have tried a number of tools, including VMware ESXi. Nutanix Prism is much simpler to use and we feel data transfers in it are very fast."
"The solution is a high-performance platform that effectively handles three-layered issues like SA and network fiber cables."
"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."
"The monitoring and verification functionalities were the most useful features."
"Can be customized according to customer requirements."
"vROps' best feature is the easy integration with the environment."
"It has allowed us to identify problems sooner and helps us with problems and issues."
"The dashboards and the interface are very easy to understand, very lively, and very dynamic."
"I've found vROps' predictive actions, monitoring, reporting, and provisioning features to be useful."
"What I like most about VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is how it integrates into the vCenter. You'll get a similar hierarchical view of your host, your VMs, your resource pools, etc. I also like the granularity, particularly the fact that you could go pretty deep into the metrics and data retention as well. You could go far back several months to try and plot performance trends, eventually leading up to an issue or post-incident management. I also like the plugins in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps). I find the plugins good, especially because you could plug those into Dell. For example, there was a way to visualize how your Dell infrastructure is performing. You could build dashboards, even custom dashboards for your operational teams. You could take a look at what was going on and also look into people doing incident management, troubleshooting, etc. You could customize your experience with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), and I found that good as well. I also like the UI of VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) because it's nice and very, very fresh."
"I have integrated vROps with vRealize Log Insight and vRealize automation. After integrating vRealize, we tried to split and combine the logs from the login sites for more alerts and information to organize the whole infrastructure and have automation. We used many different types of scripts trying to orchestrate them all together into one solution, replacing, for example, Elasticsearch and some other scripts."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
"Performance metrics and analytics could be improved."
"It doesn't integrate very well with any backup solution."
"There are no firewall policies."
"The dashboard visibility could be improved."
"One problem I faced when creating a VM and adding a hard disk to is that Nutanix Prism did not allow me to reduce that VM's hard disk."
"The replication we have does not have any backup systems built-in. We have to separate license records for backup, like onboard. We would like to have this in a future release."
"There is a bug with the HTML5 interface."
"An area for improvement would be application-level monitoring."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the integration with Active Directory. Sometimes I need to log in to the application using my Active Directory account, instead of using the regular admin for vRealize Operations. If I want to deploy this tool to more users, I need that."
"The what-if analysis section is not very advanced and there is a lot of room for improvement."
"vROps has a hypervisor level of monitoring going on in our data center. We are using other products, like SolarWinds, to have a service and OS-level of monitoring. Because we are using two solutions simultaneously for different levels of monitoring, it would be really nice in the future to have a service monitoring or OS-level of monitoring in vROps, e.g., adding the support online for monitoring services, like Linux services, Linux Databases, and Linux servers as well as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Active Directory, or other Microsoft services, since we use them a lot. It would definitely help us in the future if vROps implemented this feature."
"If it could help with calculating on-prem costs, based on their experience, it would help customers determine whether to remain on-prem or move to the cloud."
"In terms of what could be improved or added to VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), from my experience, it needs more work in the ITSM space because my company never used it as an IT service management tool."
"The solution can improve by offering more flexible integration with other platforms or products, such as Hyper-V or Azure. Not everyone uses VMware. It would be beneficial to have a more open-source concept for integration, creating more visibility across multiple clouds."
"I would like to have more documentation, in the form of knowledge bases, that better explain the technology, related products, and what the capabilities are."
Nutanix Prism is ranked 3rd in Virtualization Management Tools with 16 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 39 reviews. Nutanix Prism is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Easy setup process, but confusing database configuration and poor support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "Easy to use, stable, and support is always available". Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations , HPE OneView and Datadog, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. See our Nutanix Prism vs. VMware Aria Operations report.
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