VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We mostly use it for debugging or troubleshooting when some application doesn't work. We can look at the vRealize Operations Manager and troubleshoot from there. 

We also use it for capacity planning. 

When we have problems with applications, we are fast with troubleshooting because we use vROps.

The solution has helped us a lot to troubleshoot issues and improve quality of service.

• It has many types of metrics.
• The dashboards are very easy to use.

vROps is user-friendly. You have custom-made dashboards, which are provide by VMware. You just configure them, and it works.

We had some problems with updating it. The two times that we upgraded vRealize Operations Manager, we lost all our data.

When we not updating vROps, it works perfectly.

Scalability is great. We have two instances of vROps, and we haven't had to scale it yet.

We haven't opened any cases yet.

We did not have a previous solution.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We would like to build custom dashboards in the standard license. Right now, this is available in the enterprise license, not the standard license.

We used Grafana to monitor our environment. With vROps, you have all the VMware specific metrics and dashboards. It's much harder to invest time in another solution where you have to build it on your own.

We just considered vROps. Grafana was something that we designed on our own afterwards.

I would recommend vROps.

We use it to obtain an overview of what is happening in our cloud infrastructure, e.g., our utilization, trends, and how long before I need to upgrade my hardware,

It removes the guess work. It gives me real data and analysis in a very user-friendly way that I can show to my management without going deep into numbers. It hides all the complex numbers and visualizes them into very nice, full-looking colors and graphs. So, it makes it easy to use.

Trend analysis: It gives us insights into problems which will happen in future.

It would be nice if it could tell me more about my hardware, if there were any updates on the network that should be deployed, if some firmware needs to be deployed on the server, etc.

The stability is excellent. It has never crashed, so I have no complaints there. It just works forever.

We have a small setup. So far, I haven't tested it on a large networks. However, for our setup, which is a couple of servers, it works fine.

I haven't called the support for this solution.

I was not using a solution previously. We got a recommendation from VMware to try this product, and we loved it.

It is very easy to set up.

As integrators, we deployed it ourselves.

We have seen good ROI results. It has made our lives easier. We have a 100TB storage, and it gives us an overview, including databases, how the storage is being utilized, etc. It makes it very easy to find information out.

I haven't used a competitor's product.

Only VMware was on our list because we were already using all the other VMware solutions, like vSphere, NSX, and vCenter. Therefore, we wanted something to run on top of those products, preferably from VMware, so it could integrate in a better way.

I'm happy with it. It does all what it promises and helps us.

We are a VMware partner and integrator, so we deploy it to a lot of our customers. We love promoting this product to all of our customers.

We use it to gain more insight into our environment, with a simple, easy-to-use interface. We are a small team looking after a very large environment and without it we would be lost on a day-to-day basis.

The insight that we get from all our vSAN clusters is probably our biggest use case, and where we get the most use out of it.

We're a pretty lean team. Like most organizations, our training budgets are tight. Without an intuitive product like vROps, we wouldn't be able to get the insight that we do into our environment on a day-to-day basis.

The integration with the rest of the vSphere product suite is the most valuable feature, as we are a big vSAN user. It is fully back integrated into the vSphere Web Client, and we're getting all vSAN analytics that we need.

Stability has been bombproof, as far as we are concerned. We have never had any issues with it.

We have in excess of about 2000 hosts and had no issues from a scale point of view.

We have not used the technical support.

We weren't using anything else previously. It was the case that we were missing a monitoring solution, and this solution was the obvious fit because of the integration with everything that we already had in place.

The initial setup is straightforward. The installation process takes you through in a simple, easy to deploy manner. We were had everything up and running within the space of a day. Then, we have just evoled the product ever since.

We deployed it ourselves.

Our budgets are always tight. We would like to have more features at lower licensing levels for easier access to them.

From a hardware point of view, we looked at SolarWinds. They have a good offering, but the integration is lacking from our point of view. We needed something that would just work without having to put time and effort into it.

I personally have used some of the other solutions in this space. I've found that you tend to have to put more manpower into getting them up and running. This is what drew us to vROps.

Don't knock it because it's a vendor-specific solution. It does do what it says on the tin and helps us on a day-to-day basis.

We use it for proactive and reactive monitoring. 

I just came off a contract where capacity management was a major issue. They hadn't planned for it or made any provisions for it. So, they were looking at the operations teams to sort of do capacity management for them. This project came along, I picked it up, used vROps, and was able to say, "This is what's going on. This is what we are going to have to do. This is what we need to do to be where we want be."

Its ability to resolve an issue from within the application rather than going somewhere else to resolve it.

The dashboard is a single pane of glass for troubleshooting.

I've never had an issue with stability.

It is very easy to scale. However, in the beginning, I picked up an implementation that had been designed wrong from the ground up.

Ideally, somebody using the technical support when I found out the configuration was incorrect.

I still received a lot of help from the support agent who dealt with my case. What he couldn't do was tell me what to do to bring it back into line. However, he told me what it needed to look like, which was very well documented anyway. Though, having someone point you in the right direction can be a good thing.

The initial setup can be complex, but it is not too complex for me. I consider it straightforward.

We are an integrator.

We have seen huge ROI. 

It has certainly reduced troubleshooting, especially when we have less experienced support technicians than engineers looking at it. It guides them as to where to find the solution. Now, I have a lot less junior staff coming up to me asking what has gone wrong because it displays on the dashboard what they can do to resolve it.

In terms of integration, between this product and everything else in the VM product line, it is very easy to just pick this up as opposed to looking elsewhere.

Use it! It makes perfect sense.

It is very intuitive and user-friendly. The solution is a lot more intuitive and user-friendly these days than it was before.

We are deploying this solution to monitor our customers' environments. We use it to look at IOPS and the VMs and for monitoring consumption.

This solution has helped improve our organization because we can now monitor our customers' environmental problems as well as our own and give the correct answers as to what the source of a problem is. 

It has also reduced the time it takes to troubleshoot problems and has improved the quality of service for our users.

Monitoring is the most valuable feature for us. When our customers have a problem and we can monitor it in real time or evaluate the history of the problem.

We have found this solution to be user-friendly because it's fairly simple to navigate. We can see if it connects problems with storage, consumption, or other issues.

I rated this solution an eight and not a ten because we work to give a multi-tenant product to our customers and vROps doesn't meet our needs.

The stability is good because we can do an HA environment. 

Scalability works well. We have many customers and have never had any issues with it. 

We got this solution because we knew we needed a monitoring solution. We decided on this specific solution because of its direct integration features.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was a simple deployment. 

We implemented it ourselves. 

Our ROI is that we have been able to reduce the time it takes to look into a problem. 

Cost isn't a problem for us because it's included in our licensing. 

Opsview was another vendor we looked at. We didn't go with it because we liked vROps' use case. It allows us to see simply and graphically what a problem is and we can export a report of the problem for our customer, which is very valuable to us. Opsview gave us some information but we found it to be slower. With vROps, we can monitor every feature and vendor; we can monitor the environment which means we can monitor everything. 

Cost savings isn't a problem for us because we have enough resources with the cloud provider.

If you're looking into vROps and similar solutions, I would recommend vROps because it's a good program.

I use it for full diagnostics and predictive problems for the applications or services that we run.

Over-provisioning helps us a bit, and we have a lot over-provisioned VMs. Thus, we show different teams that this type of resource can help manage their environment.

With over-provisioning, we track it all. This is one of the main benefits as it is a reactive and proactive full diagnostic. We can see if the servers are behaving differently and why: Is it quiet or busy? The system is quite good.

• I like the dashboards. We can view in our service groups before something in our service goes wrong and causes issues.
• It is user-friendly, because you can visually set up dashboards for people, such as traffic light systems. 
• The integration with vCenter is what makes it a superior product. 
• There is no hassle setting it up, as it works straight out-of-the-box.
• It has a nice user interface.
• Its ease of use.

In vCenter 6.7, there are themes. I would like to see that add to vRealize Operations as well. It is very nice.

The stability has been good. It is just an appliance that needs to be installed. Give it an IP address, name it, and it works fine.

The scalability has been fine.

The technical support has been fine.

We had a license already for this product. Therefore, we thought we would use the license rather than buying a new product.

The initial setup was easy. We installed the appliance, gave it an IP address, and assigned the relevant passwords.

We installed it ourselves.

If the VMs were trimmed, then we wouldn't have to buy as much software/hardware, and this means less licenses. While most of it is VMware licenses, which are relatively cheap, there are SQL licenses for Microsoft, and this is where we could start saving a lot of money.

I would recommend to try the solution.

We use it for monitoring and troubleshooting the performance and stability of our VMware.

If we get reports of applications that are running slowly, we are able to drill into the VM and all the statistics, and see where the bottlenecks are or what the issues are.

The solution has helped reduce the time to troubleshoot issues. It gives us greater insight into all capacity utilization, which helps us plan better.

For us, the most valuable feature is the insight into real-time performance.

At times we find the solution to be intuitive and user-friendly. It's getting better. Version 6 was terrible but 7 is a lot better. There is still room for improvement. It needs to be a bit more intuitive.

I would like to see more integration between vRealize Operations, Log Insight, and Network Insight. It would be nice if they worked a bit better together.

So far, stability is fine.

As for scalability, we've already added an extra node and it was a nice and simple, click, click, done. The scalability is good so far.

We have not had to use technical support yet.

We didn't have a solution that gave us in-depth performance stats or capacity planning in the VMware stack. We were a VMware customer, so it made sense to go with a VMware product. Compared to other products the feature set, use cases, and costs of vROps are fine. It's the integration points that led us to go with VMware, there's better, tighter integration using vROps.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took us half a day.

We used a consultant for the deployment. We used Assist Inc, and they were brilliant.

In terms of ROI, we're getting there. However, it's only been live for a couple months.

We've looked at other solutions before, but we've never found one that does what VROps does. We've looked at Veeam ONE and VMTurbo, but I don't think they're around anymore. That's part of the problem: There were vendors that did the monitoring and they've all crashed and burned. VROps wouldn't do that.

My advice would be, do a hands-on lab. Get to grips with it before you deploy it.

I rate it at eight out of ten. It's a great product. It integrates well with the VMware stack. It covers all the VMware technologies. I just need it to be more intuitive, so that's why it's an eight and not a nine or a ten.

The primary use case is that we are transforming our customer's physical and virtual infrastructure, who are afraid of anything that can happen in a virtual environment. Our job is to make a sort of private cloud, not to sell virtual machines, but to host the workload.

The main point of installing, deploying, and troubleshooting with vRealize Operations is to provide visual dashboards to ensure that the entire workload is functioning properly. Because we sell our infrastructure to clients, they need to be able to operate it. Therefore, they must have the visibility, even if they don't know how the system works from the inside.

We have to be stable to provide high availability because it's a high value market. Therefore, we have to ensure everything works all the time.

It is intuitive and user-friendly.

We are looking to optimize all the parts. For example, vCenter can be fully deployed automatically, which is not the case with vROps. We can click some next buttons to integrate vCenter and would like these type of features for vROps, if possible.

It is stable.

The technical support is good and helpful. 

The initial setup is easy.

We bought the server from a third-party. 

The first thing that we did was ask VMware what type of hardware we should buy. They helped us by providing insight in which type of server to buy, then they helped us by providing the support to integrate the solution.

We chose VMware and its solution because it was the most easily supportable. We know some of their consultants and our people know the products.

Use VMware to support the solution. Don't go at it alone.