We compared VMware Aria Operations and VMware vSphere based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Ease of Deployment: Users of both solutions find them easy to deploy.
Features: Users of both products feel that they are fairly stable and scalable.
Users of VMware Aria Operations find its dashboards and interfaces to be intuitive to use. However, they are divided over how effectively it integrates with other products.
Reviewers of VMware vSphere find its integration capabilities to be highly effective. However, they feel that its storage management capabilities could be improved.
Pricing: Users of both solutions find them to be expensive.
Service and Support: For the most part, users of both products find their technical support to be effective.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, VMware vSphere seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that the question concerning the effectiveness of VMware Aria Operations’ integration capabilities makes VMware vSphere a better investment.
"vROps' best feature is the easy integration with the environment."
"The ease of installation and configuration is the most valuable feature, especially for VMware and the cloud."
"It gives us a lot of details about the environment that we normally wouldn't be able to see without using other tools. We get visibility into our infrastructure, a single interface to see storage performance, VM performance, and to find issues in the environment that we wouldn't normally see."
"It's a great tool for monitoring and tracking data of our entire environment."
"What we do, as a whole for our group... is storage virtualization and the compute side. This product brings all those pieces into one interface and now we can actually correlate data between them."
"The automation brings insight into how we will grow. I can look at it, then make my recommendations on what equipment we need to do for the next fiscal year."
"Troubleshooting is one of the most valuable features for us. It identifies problems that other monitoring solutions are giving us, offers us insight into the problem and then digs into it and finds out what the actual problems are and addresses them."
"It has helped us to reduce the amount of VM sprawl, VMs that are not necessarily used. We can then reclaim resources such as memory, CPU, and storage."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"In the beginning, I picked up an implementation that had been designed wrong from the ground up."
"It's complex to manage because there are a lot of options and metrics. It's complex when you want to do something very specific."
"One of the features I would like them to bring in is more application monitoring and more visibly into applications. Instead of the actual hardware and the environment, they need to go one step further and bring in application availability and application performance. I don't really care if the hardware's overloaded, as long as the application is performing correctly. That's all the users care about and that's all I really care about."
"Where the product could improve would be the UI."
"I want vROps to have wider compatibility with older hardware. In this country, many companies have older hardware, so sometimes we can't support all the newest features."
"I would like to see a full RESTful API for everything and PowerCLI modules that interact with more of the different features. It doesn't have a complete API set and it's not a complete PowerCLI module yet. I'd love to see that developed more, to be able to interact with other applications and automation."
"When you deploy it as a single node, it's more stable than if you have multiple nodes. We've had some issues with this."
"In some respects, the UI is pretty stale. It has been that way from the beginning. Some easier ways to create custom dashboards for management, versus the tech guys, versus administrators, that would be helpful."
"In addition, I think they should come up with a backup feature which is more product enrichment-based. It should be a full-fledged backup solution. It just is not there right now."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
"The hardware cost is high."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE, Nutanix Prism and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and IBM Turbonomic.
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