We performed a comparison between RightScale Cloud Management Platform and VMware Aria Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The most valuable feature is Optima, which is something that we use quite extensively."
"With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage."
"quality-of-latest-release; Compared to the earlier versions, from my experience, the upgrade process is easier; for example, the compatibility checks. I also don't need to go and find out the resources that are required. It tells me in one report what the current environment is like and, if I want to go to the next level, what things I need to take care of. Based on that I can make things happen."
"It is very stable, especially for high availability features."
"I find the system to be intuitive and user-friendly. In general, I'm quite happy with the entire setup. Once you configure the system, navigating the portal is pretty simple. They use a lot of the vSphere UI interface structure so it's intuitive, especially if you have used anything vSphere-related before."
"We have it deployed in a highly-available environment and scalability is nice because we just had another ESX host and then we are able to increase the capacity."
"Being able to give provisioning of environments over to our developers and the different teams has enabled them to put up environments faster and also freed up time for the IT team. This is really one of our bread and butter solutions for our developers."
"Instead of only deploying templates, we can deploy blueprints which are easier on day-to-day operations."
"We haven't hit any limits yet, scalability is good."
"The automation function itself and how to group and publish those groupings is quite easy for customers to learn with Aria."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved."
"There is a problem with integration due to invalid private node security certificates."
"They should concentrate on navigation and service improvements."
"It was a complex setup. We had to use the consultant from VMware to make the solution work well."
"I don't find it to be entirely user-friendly. There are a lot of complicated menus within menus within menus. Things move around from version to version."
"vCenter and vRA, I believe they share two different databases so sometimes you have to somehow sync them up. I wish there was only one database between the two or, somehow, one database would rule over the other one, so if you have both products, the vCenter might use the vRA database. Otherwise, when you do stuff in vCenter, you have to write a command on vRA to update the databases."
"We would like them to improve the automation part. This is an upcoming area that we would like to focus on."
"It does go down from time to time. We have some issues with the appliances sometimes and we have to do reboots in the middle of the day. That affects the ability for them to deploy."
"The back-end has a steep learning curve."
"The setup is difficult. You need a technical person to help you set it up."
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RightScale Cloud Management Platform is ranked 25th in Cloud Management with 4 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 132 reviews. RightScale Cloud Management Platform is rated 7.6, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of RightScale Cloud Management Platform writes "Good CMPs for cloud provisioning and excellent scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". RightScale Cloud Management Platform is most compared with , whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator.
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