VMware Aria Operations Reviews

We use it to monitor our virtual infrastructure for VDI. It is also used in our server infrastructure for basic monitoring or solving issues.

Our organization is a government company which is focused on thinking about other nations and companies.

It can compare hardware to software, and I have all the information in one place.

It is sometimes quite hard to use. If I need details, there is a huge amount of information that I need to review. It isn't a three-click solution.

We would like better integration with other systems (e.g., Zabbix). We would also like to increase our network monitoring in one place.

We haven't had problems with the stability. It is okay.

We are so small. We don't need to scale.

We don't directly use technical support. We have suppliers who help us.

When we are looking for new solutions, we usually ask the vendors. We ask them directly and they present their products.

We didn't do the first setup. Everything was integrated for us, and we just use it.

We use an integrator, who is very good. He has helped us outside the standard hours.

The solution has helped to reduce the time to troubleshoot issues.

I can recommend the solution for VDI.

We use it to monitor applications, infrastructures, and operating systems.

The real-time notifications are the most valuable feature.

I would like to have external add-ons and third-party support added to the solution.

It was not intuitive and user-friendly in the versions leading up to 6.5. After version 6.5, it improved and has been user-friendly.

It has issues that require manual handling, such as the server allows metrics. However, this is difficult to set up.

I have never had stability issues with this platform.

I haven't tested scalability.

I have never needed to use technical support.

I was holding the license, so I decided to give it a try. The solution proved itself.

The initial setup is very straightforward. The platform and add-on solutions are straightforward.

I implemented it on my own.

I have evaluated SolarWind and Microsoft SCOM. 

vROps's key value is its ability to have a hypervisor metrics of monitoring, which other products do not have.

If your infrastructure is VMware-based, you will get the most value out of the solution.

Our primary use case for this solution is to troubleshoot workloads. 

We have effectively reduced a lot of our memory and we love the Idle VMs. We can scale back the over-provisioning of systems based on actual facts and metrics. We've really been able to tidy up the over-provisioning. 

The charts, form, and metrics that you can visually display out to other sites that IT can't, and the visibility are the features that we have found most valuable. 

We do not find this solution to be user-friendly. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done and a lot of work has to go into getting the graphs right. It's not a "plug and play" type of thing. You really have to put in a lot of work. You always have to be aware of what's going on within the machines. It needs to be improved from end-to-end. 

I would like to see more visibility into the machine's working and an easier way to find out what the workings are. There are agents but they're tricky. I would like to see something more agent-less. 

I have rated this solution an eight because it's at an excellent level but it's still lacking on the end-to-end side. It has gotten better, visually, but it's still not quite there. It's clunky looking and they could have done a lot better with the interface. 

There are problems with stability. 

Scalability is getting better. It needs to be resized and it's not that easy. 

I recently used technical support to do an upgrade. They did excellent work.

I have a contact at VMware who I spoke to about software issues and he pointed us to this solution. We used RVTools many years ago but we needed something more enterprise. 

The initial setup was complex. 

This solution is expensive. Businesses don't see the true value of it, whereas IT operations do, which makes it a hard sell. 

IT sees a lot of benefit from this solution, mainly regarding troubleshooting, identifying issues, and retrospective trouble-shooting. It offers a timeline in which you can go in and see how the machine was behaving. It identifies deep issues at high levels. 

I would tell someone looking into this solution that you need high-level tools. You can't be relying on the free tools or on vCenter free questions. You need a step up to aggregate that information. I would look at all of the available solutions. 

Our primary use case of this solution is mostly monitoring and the capacity for tracking. The organization I work for has lots of different data centers. Our team is responsible for monitoring how much capacity is left. 

It has improved our organization because it allows for a bit more transparency regarding consumption and it also helps us plan ahead. 

The integrated metrics are the most valuable feature. 

We don't find this solution to be user-friendly. If you want to use integrated features then it is quite easy, but if you want to use it for a specific metrics model or monitor then it starts becoming more complicated. If you want to create different networks then it's quite complex. 

The stability is working. 

The initial setup was quite straightforward. It was quite simple. To get benefits you have to dig deeper. 

We deployed this solution in-house. 

I rated this solution an eight because it's a good product but it's a bit complicated. I'm rating it based on my expectations of this kind of product. Once you install it you can expect it to help predict issues. In order to understand all of these metrics, you have to delve and dig into them yourself. If you don't know where you're looking for a problem and need it to be more specific then you have to customize it on your own.

I would advise somebody looking into this product that you have to know exactly what you're looking to get; what kind of metrics and what they involve. It is quite expensive and if you just implement it just because you can then you won't get any benefit from it. You have to think through and plan ahead. You have to understand what the issues are that you want to solve with this solution. Otherwise, this solution is a waste of money. 

We use it for analytics, graphs, etc. We use it for some reports, but not too many.

It has helped us with analyzing storage issues, such as looking at the break down per VM, IOPS, storage wait times, CPU Ready, etc.

It's helped us troubleshoot some issues.

The built-in dashboards for troubleshooting are nice.

We have had no concerns with stability.

It is part of the vRealize Suite, so we tried it out.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is an OVA deployment, connect to the virtual center, and add some plugins. Then, you're done.

We don't take advantage of the cost savings features that it has.

We have another competing product that we use to do the same thing. We use it as well. So, we have two things doing the same thing. Some things we like about it, and some things we don't.

We're also using SCOM with Veeam together. I don't think we will move away from Veeam and it will not replace SCOM. 

Install it and give it a shot. Know that it's not so easy to configure or learn. You need to invest some time to get to know the product, but it can be very helpful.

In some places, it is easy to use, and in other places, not so much. The prebuilt dashboards are easy to use, but if you want to create your own, it is not so easy. It is the same for reports.

We use it for managing all of our hardware, the ESXi operating system, and associated VM technologies. It performs fine.

It allows us to alternate between data centers in a more efficient format. Instead of having a lot of people spend time doing manual tasks, it allows us to have dashboards and instantly show us any issues that we have, rather than trolling through log files.

The ability to have less IT stuff, spending more time looking at log files. vRealize Operations allows us to monitor everything dynamically.

The solution is intuitive and user-friendly, because I train it. I know the product quite well because I teach people how to use it.

We would like better integration with the cloud because we use a multi-vendor cloud. We use AWS, which is fine, but we also use Azure and Google. We would like better plugins to those other two providers.

We haven't had any issues at all with stability. It took a few months to get it working correctly because a lot of information comes in with it. However, we've managed to fine tune it, and now it works perfectly.

We only have a ten-node cluster, because we do a lot of work with the cloud. So, we have ten servers on-premise. So, scalability is fine for us.

The initial setup is extremely straightforward, as I train the product.

People coming on training courses for the vRealize Suite find the setup extremely straightforward after being on the training course.

It has reduced time to troubleshoot issues. With our customized dashboards, we can target issues and attribute them to the correct team. We have customized dashboards for networking storage and compute. Then, based off the reports that we get back, we can quickly pass them off to the relevant team rather than have to go around in circles and have everybody say, "Not us."

We use SCOM as well. What we like about the vRealize Suite of products is the customability of the product. We can do things ourselves rather than having to rely solely on Management Packs.

It won't work out-of-the-box the way you want it to. As with any product, it will require customization with your organization's environment.

• Capacity management
• Performance management
• Troubleshooting

It helps us reduce resources by indicating that we don't need that much CPU or memory in use. This gets the density of our VMs much higher on our systems.

It helped troubleshooting issues with storms of software data that cost a lot of IO. We could look back regarding why it happen and easily pinpoint it by going through all the reports and data. We would then follow up with the responsible owners of those VMs.

In training data, it predicted that we could reconfigure systems or buy more capacity, when needed.

The most valuable features are capacity management, proactive reports, etc. 

It is intuitive and user-friendly. It is easy to follow and the reporting engine is easy to use.

I would like some training or sessions around self-healing and automation. So, if a problem occurs, we can automatically take action on a problem which is occurring.

At the beginning, the stability was not that good. The latest versions are much better.

The scalability is okay. We have had no problems with it.

The technical support was pretty good when we called once. They can solve issues in no time.

I don't think there were many problems setting it up.

We implemented it ourselves.

If you're using VMware, use the native products that they have because they are great.

We use it for various operations to monitor and have some visibility over the platform.

All our capacity management and capacity planning processes are based on vROps. Without this tool, we are unable to predict what we need, at what time we need to purchase new hardware, whether we should upgrade, etc.

The reports about usability, the free and available space, and capacity on the platform. These reports are the best that we have.

It can be more intuitive and user-friendly. We would like some artificial intelligence behind it to predict, instead of what we do now which is configuring vROps is to show what you have.

We would like easier customer reporting, because to do customer reports, we have to do a lot of programming.

The stability is superb.

We chose VMware because of its scalability. If you need to grow and scale, there is no solution on the market like vROps.

We have used techncial support several times, but not for errors. We haven't needed support for vROps though, which is a pretty easy and straightforward product. We have been a VMware customer for over ten years, so we have contacted them for other products. 

For many years, we used an outsourced monitoring solution, which was an HPE platform. However, it was basically useless. So, after five years of fighting, they finally gave us the green light to go for something which was built for a virtualization environment.

The initial setup is easy.

We were one of the first in our country to implemented these technologies. From time to time, in special cases, we use our expertise. Currently, we are handling 90 percent internally.

We evaluated several other vendors. However, at the price VMware offered us, there was no reason to chose anyone else.

It speeds up troubleshooting. Overall, we can see what is happening on our platform. On the other hand, the VMware platform is so stable that there is nothing to maintain.