We performed a comparison between SkyKick Cloud Manager 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."Technical support has been good."
"We can connect between multiple VMs in a matter of seconds."
"Currently, the primary feature we're using in VMware Aria Automation is its ability to execute tasks quickly. However, we haven't explored other features like workload management or the full stack yet. So it's hard to make comparisons or fully utilize its potential until we expand our usage."
"We haven't hit any limits yet, scalability is good."
"Instead of only deploying templates, we can deploy blueprints which are easier on day-to-day operations."
"In terms of scalability, vRA has connections to a lot of different systems. It's very flexible and an impressive product."
"The most valuable feature that we have is that it's able to deploy several different operating systems, it's able to deploy whatever we want. We can take a template, spin it up, revise it, save it back off, and be able to have that for other departments. We can have one for our Dev team and one for our research team which has some specific requirements. We can keep track of them and deploy things automatically."
"It provides velocity both from management and customer perspectives, from ingesting new catalog items, developing new workflows for additional features, and/or allowing customer access to multiple guest OS instances at scale in a shorter time frame."
"It is very stable, especially for high availability features."
"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."
"I know you can spin up virtual desktops in vRA, but they're not thin-provisioned. I don't know if that's because the other product, Horizon View, is there, but it would be nice to see more integration."
"The stability needs a lot of work. The troubleshooting component of vRealize is a pain. The administration and the upgrades are not up to the mark. If they were able to improve on that, that would be the best thing and would make it much easier to run it in the enterprise."
"The high price of the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex from beginning to delivery. The current version is a bit more complex than version 7 to deploy."
"The stability is okay, but could be improved. We sometimes receive strange errors, which can only be solved with specialists."
"The initial setup was complex because we have a high availability cluster. Especially when it comes to upgrades, we have a lot of downtimes and problems. The upgrade experience has been painful."
"With the workflow aspect, which has manual intervention, a policy needs to be approved by somebody. There could be better management of that piece with better templates. It is like a workflow engine, but does not have enough example templates to do certain things. A lot of people waste a lot of time trying to figure out the same thing, and everybody is trying to figure out the same thing, e.g., how to make a MySQL cluster in a Windows environment?"
"We have seen some issues with upgrades or installations. This means we have to raise a call every time with VMware."
SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 133 reviews. SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". 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". SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere, 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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