vRealize Business for Cloud Reviews

The features I find most valuable about this solution is it helps us to automate all the provisioning activities on the platform. I like the integration with other applications or vendors. 

I think it is a very good solution because the technology is very consolidated with third parties. VMware is a top solution for virtualizing infrastructure. If I have to suggest to someone to use a cloud platform technologies, I would suggest VMware or OpenStack for infrastructure, because with VMware you have a perfect way to have support for your issues. You also have a consolidated technology. With OpenStack, you have a cloud public platform like Amazon Web Services, because OpenStack is based on AWS philosophy. It is open so you're sure that in the future you can use the platform without problems and without locking.

The technical team is quite capable of resolving issues. I would, however like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support, like some training videos. 

I used vCloud before, which is another cloud solution of VMware. It is most useful for public cloud, because it works better in multi-tenant infrastructure, while vRealize is better for mono-tenant infrastructure. For instance, when you have a private cloud and you want to manage various virtual machines, a lot of infrastructure for only a customer, this is the better solution. If you are a cloud provider and want to use VMware technologies for your platform it's better to use vCloud.

The initial setup was complex because they are a very important platform, but it wasn't so complex with respect to the community solutions. We used a consultant for the installation and deployment. 

We did evaluate other options, but vRealize Business for Cloud turned out to be the best.

I rate this solution a ten out of ten and I will highly recommend it to others.

We are a solution integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.

This product is used by cloud providers to help manage their private and hybrid clouds. It is essentially a metering solution for VMware.

vRealize Business for Cloud integrates with the infrastructure and reports costs on resource usage.

The most valuable feature is the metering capability. It helps to bill clients on their usage of resources in the infrastructure.

The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved. The documentation can be improved, as well.

Stability-wise, this is a very good solution and we haven't heard about any problems with it from our customers.

Scalability has been good enough for our customers.

I have been in touch with technical support and find that they are good. We are satisfied with them.

Installation and integration are simple. However, the configuration and setting up the schema is something that has to be discussed in-depth with the customer. In more complex cases, it takes a good understanding and longer to design a correct schema.

The deployment, once it is designed, only takes a couple of hours.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to get as much information as possible from the vendor. It is important to understand it properly, in advance. If it is designed properly then you will get the best value because the scheme will be optimized.

Overall, this is a good solution and we have not had any problems, but I can't say that it is perfect because of the issues with the documentation and knowledge base.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.