AppFog (discontinued) vs. Virtana Platform vs. vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.
$0
Virtana Platform
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Virtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…
$5
per month per device
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.
$10
per month per core
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
Pro
$5
per month per device
FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$16
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$128
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$1500
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per month per core
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsVolume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Features
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
2 Ratings
18% below category average
Virtana Platform
-
Ratings
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Virtana Platform
-
Ratings
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
8.1
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
InfluxDB
InfluxDB
Score 8.8 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Logz.io
Logz.io
Score 8.5 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain Technologies
Score 9.2 out of 10
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)Virtana PlatformvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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Virtana
Overall I would say that we have been very happy with Zenoss. It has been a great server monitoring tool. There are certain aspects that we would like to expand into, such as Capacity Planning, Network Performance Monitoring, and log analysis. We have coupled Zenoss logs with Splunk for external log management, but would like to start using some of the built-in analysis tools.
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Discontinued Products
It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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Virtana
  • Monitoring Windows, Unix/Linux, Infra apps, storage, virtualization, converge infra etc..
  • Integrate with other monitoring tools and receive events for aggregation and correlation
  • Integration with ITSM( SNOW) for auto ticket creation
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Discontinued Products
  • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
  • Automation of IT management
  • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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Virtana
  • It can be tricky to set-up depending on what you want to do.
  • They have their own proprietary way of visualizing metrics, which is clever but does have a slight learning curve.
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Discontinued Products
  • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
  • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
  • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Virtana
Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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Virtana
We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform Operations team. We have worked closely with Metricly to expand on their cost analysis capabilities, and plan to use them going forward.
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Discontinued Products
VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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Virtana
  • We're a reseller/Integrator, so this question has a somewhat different meaning to our business. For us, Zenoss Cloud allows us to provide a single Cloud-based monitoring platform that can address virtually all our clients' use cases, dramatically simplifying our training and staffing requirements. Instead of training Engineers on several platforms, including the installation of physical hardware/software, we can focus on a single platform.
  • The faster time-to-deployment and always-on cloud platform is a great fit for DevOps environments and newer software-defined data center platforms. The ability of Zenoss to support these environments solves what has been a major blind spot, slowing adoption of platforms that have been difficult to effectively manage with legacy monitoring platforms.
  • For clients, the ability to consolidate from multiple prem-based tools to a single cloud-based platform is huge. Eliminating multiple licenses and ongoing hardware & administration costs can show a 1-2 year ROI.
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Discontinued Products
  • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
  • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
  • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
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