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VMware Aria Automation vs VMware Aria Suite comparison

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Categories and Ranking

VMware Aria Automation
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
172
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (2nd), Configuration Management (11th), Network Automation (7th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (29th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (7th)
VMware Aria Suite
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user224100 - PeerSpot reviewer
SSIO Infrastructure Engineer at Wyndham Destination Network - RCI Europe
Key benefits include the ability to identify resource usage and hot spots.
I have been using Operations Manager for the last few months since reviewing my licence structure and procuring the Enterprise Plus, management bundle. Having a number of distributed vSphere environments spread across the UK and Europe has presented a number of challenges in terms of centralised alerting and reporting. With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly - reducing the labour that was previously causing issues. Key benefits:- * Ability to identify resource usage and hot spots * Understand where I can reclaim resources * Trend and forecast my virtual landscape by adding projects

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Integrating this tool with other technologies/third-party tools, that are not part of the VMware family, is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the automation of the deployment of the whole machine."
"It has improved our organization by automating some of our processes."
"Before, it took us two days to provision new machines, and today the whole process is done in about two hours."
"I recommend the product due to its effectiveness in automation and integration."
"It’s very helpful for us to have this product; we already gained the benefits after installation and configuration."
"Now, it's no more than a half hour to activate a new VM at the customer's site."
"The setup was straightforward. We upgraded to a newer version seamlessly. It worked really well."
"This is our lifeblood, our ability to be pro-active instead of retroactive, and without it, it hurts our bottom line."
"I found the ease of use with Operations Manager Dashboard and providing complete visibility of your infrastructure most valuable."
"With my collections all configured I am now able to receive invaluable information quickly, reducing the labour that was previously causing issues."
"Thanks guys – you managed to turn around an extremely frustrating experience into something more positive."
 

Cons

"One pain point we have seen is users are able to set their lease expirations to zero, which means the lifecycle management gets disabled."
"Automation: We want to be able to have a lot more preconfigured solutions."
"They should make it a little bit more dynamic, a little bit easier to deal with large-scale AD deployments. They need to make it a little more enterprise-ready. That is the one thing that kills us."
"Having an overview and managing all this is a bit difficult in the beginning."
"The GUI is clunky and hard to use."
"I don't find it to be user-friendly or intuitive because, in my case, when I have to deploy SAP systems, I need to jump between the vRA, the vRO, and the actual vCenter itself. I need to go back and forth to do different things... I wish they could make it just one application, just vRA, that does all that. There might be a way to do it but I haven't figured out how to do it yet."
"There are a number of bugs and regression errors that can make it frustrating at times, but given the flexibility so far I have found adequate workarounds."
"I would like to see more automation, more ways to automate automation tasks."
"I would like to see the vrealize Suite support the Mcrosoft Azure"
"It’s hardly the most streamlined deployment experience is it? It’s ironic that an application designed to orchestrate operations can’t orchestrate its installation a bit better!"
"It has color coding to an extent, but it needs more colors to tag more diversely."
"I would like the reporting function to be made more complete."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm very interested in the integration with Puppet. However, my organization doesn't have the funding for something like Puppet right now. If VMware would integrate that feature set (Puppet) into vRA. That would be very awesome."
"As far as value is concerned, it has been essential to our environment. We have been able to deploy VMs quickly and the developers have their own sandbox, so they can spin up and destroy VMs at their own will."
"I would rate the pricing a ten out of ten, with ten being very expensive."
"The pricing is very high."
"I would rate it high because, compared to other solutions, VMware’s pricing is quite expensive. VMware products have become significantly more costly in recent years, leading to higher costs."
"vRealize automation really should be a front door to the whole VMware suite of products."
"A simplified version for small businesses would be good."
"It made the provisioning of the virtual machines easier and faster. We can react more quickly to customers' demands."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise131
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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 ...
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Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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