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VMware Aria Operations vs VMware Aria Suite comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

VMware Aria Operations
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
376
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (1st)
VMware Aria Suite
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AldoDomini - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Network Analyst at Net spa
Have faced limitations due to high costs but have maintained reliability over time
The primary issue is the pricing, which is very expensive for my company's budget. We cannot afford to pay such a large fee. We are not Microsoft or BMW; we are a small company. As a small company, I have no power to negotiate directly with VMware. Perhaps larger companies have more opportunity to contract directly with VMware, but I do not have that leverage. The only path I can follow is to change solutions. Net.spA is a company working in the field of waste management. We are not a technological company, so we do not have a large margin to justify purchasing and maintaining the VMware infrastructure at current costs.
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

"The resource reclamation is the most valuable feature."
"One of the best features is the monitoring. It gives you proactive recommendations, based on the information that you have. It recommends changes. For example, if an ESX service is heavily loaded, it will tell you to make some changes, such as storage optimizations. Every tool does monitoring, but this one gives you more proactive monitoring, with the recommendations and actions that are needed."
"Its technical support team responds quickly."
"VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is a good tool that users can use for reporting purposes, forecasting, performance analysis, and in-depth troubleshooting."
"This is a very good tool, because we can customize it according to the needs of our customers."
"It visualizes stuff better, so we can pinpoint or see problems."
"It is about being able to keep tabs on your VMware environment as a whole, instead of having to log into your vCenter all day and keeping tabs."
"The analysis features available with it allow us to do very high-level, enhanced root-cause analysis on events and issues that arise."
"This is our lifeblood, our ability to be pro-active instead of retroactive, and without it, it hurts our bottom line."
"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."
"I found the ease of use with Operations Manager Dashboard and providing complete visibility of your infrastructure most valuable."
 

Cons

"There are some distribution issues, and there is not enough information on the portal."
"We've had stability issues with the underlying PostgreSQL database; it's very chatty, it fills the logs up, it fills the drives up."
"One missing component was the integration of Log Insight and vRealize Business within vROps."
"I had to create roles, create accounts, and that sort of repetitive work that whoever has to deploy vROps will do."
"We use a large installation of this solution with multiple nodes and so the setup was pretty complex."
"One of the expectations would be to have third-party integrations, plug-ins like with Lumidor."
"I think I made a mistake in choosing VMware."
"In vCenter 6.7, there are themes. I would like to see that add to vRealize Operations as well."
"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."
"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!"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have definitely seen ROI by removing unnecessary servers and VMs. By having vROps as an assistant when it comes to monitoring and managing resources, it has helped us a lot with cost savings and managing expenses."
"The product is too expensive to implement."
"The pricing is a little bit expensive. Licensing is an issue because there are always changes, and by that I mean cost increases. And that's not only for vROps but for VMware, vSphere, and all the products that are involved."
"The licensing is quite expensive for our company."
"The licensing is not clear at the moment if the on-premises pricing is the same as on the cloud. I am checking on the pricing. However, you can save a lot of money with the cloud solution because you need to spend time installing, upgrading, and connecting with the on-premises solution. Also, you don't need to spend time scheduling the maintenance and maintaining the solution when using the cloud version."
"Our budgets are always tight. We would like to have more features at lower licensing levels for easier access to them."
"I would like to see a free offering. Cost is always a factor in any sort of line. Obviously, the value added is there and it's worth it."
"We have seen huge ROI. It has certainly reduced troubleshooting."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise281
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 VMware Aria Operations a user friendly solution?
In terms of user-friendliness, VMware Aria Operations is one of the best solutions out there. It is not overly complex to set up and you can rely on the technical support to provide you with assis...
What is the most useful new feature of VMware Aria Operations?
For me, the alerts features are the most unique part of this product, no matter the current name it uses. When they introduced the new version of VMware Aria Operations, they also introduced more a...
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Also Known As

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)
vRealize suite
 

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Sample Customers

Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
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