We performed a comparison between VMware Aria Automation and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."We also use it to pre-install the applications that the people selected when they ordered the machine, so they get a fully functional machine."
"The most valued feature is the streamlining of the DevOps process, automation and orchestration. It provides the ability for the entire Dev lifecycle to actually be incorporated into a single stream."
"With the advent of the automation, we've been able to give DevOps the ability to spin up environments, give them lease times, and then have it automatically reclaim the environment."
"Instead of only deploying templates, we can deploy blueprints which are easier on day-to-day operations."
"The feature of automated balancing which implemented between two data centers solely for the purpose of a recovery plan is valuable."
"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"The repetitive tasks which took provisioning storage, network, and compute two to three weeks, now takes five minutes."
"It is also intuitive and user-friendly... With vRealize, we can have a Help Desk individual, who might not be that techy, provision the different elements quite easily, with no almost training at all."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"The product's features for hybrid cloud integration could be better."
"It would be better if VMware would provide API documentation for developers and customers on the Internet."
"Normally, on the first call to technical support, you don't get the right person. The log analysis takes a long time. This is something which should be improved."
"I would like to see better integration capabilities. Maybe if they could develop libraries within Aria Automation for simpler integration with other third-party solutions, instead of just basic integration."
"They should concentrate on navigation and service improvements."
"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."
"Our current use cases aren't very complex, but as our environment grows, we're seeing a greater need for automation. We're considering expanding our automation efforts, especially since other competitive products are starting to offer similar features."
"One of the features that's a struggle today is some of the public cloud extensibility. Some of the plugins that are native to vRA and vRO, I'd like to see them come out earlier for vRO. I understand that in vRA, the plugins are a little bit more polished because the VRA is the GUI. But we'd like to see them released earlier in vRO, prior to a GUI being released. Azure, for example, is a public cloud provider but we have some instability issues with the plugin in vRO. It's okay for us if we separate the vRA from vRO plugin releases. So I'd like to see some increased stability in some of those public cloud plugins."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
VMware Aria Automation is ranked 1st in Cloud Management with 132 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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