AWS Compute Optimizer vs. vRealize Operations

AWS Compute Optimizer works well if you are using AWS as the core tech stack. If you are on mixed cloud deployments, then it is less appropriate because it can only give you a partial view. It might be helpful to use a tool that aggregates the usage and billing data from multiple platforms instead.

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VRealize is well suited for an organization that is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem. There are a ton of plugins and management packs that will allow you to integrate with just about every major area of your infrastructure whether its storage, backup, cloud, or monitoring related. It is less appropriate for a company that does not already have a financial licensing agreement with VMware already established as it can be very expensive if paid for a la carte.

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• Detailed analysis of resource uses
• Suggestion to reduce cost
• Easy to use

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• Shows us where we can save on cost of keeping machines running, or boosting resources on VM's
• the ability to plan deployments with scenario plans that can be customized over a specific timeline
• reports that can be sent and shared with different teams or departments

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• Although it works great for AWS services but they should give a third party cost add option
• Many features only work when there is large data available
• sometime suggestions are not relevant to business problem we address

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• There are less space for customization.
• Cannot use for OS monitoring.
• Some option are very complex like getting an ideal VM report.

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The support is pretty good however some of the KB articles still reference different versions of the product so it can be hard to find answers to common questions

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Although both work in the same manner I prefer AWS cause our department mostly work on AWS technologies and it really makes our life easy in terms of cutting cost and making our application efficient and it gives a whole understanding of resource utilization. I recommend AWS Cost optimizer to all.

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Much compatibility with our VMware Infrastructure.

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• It has a very positive impact
• Reduced the cost by a significant amount
• Great understanding of resource utilization

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• I would not have a job without this product. It helps me become the data superstar in my organization
• The only neg is that people think I can solve all their problems with vROPs. We do not have hooks into every application so we can only provide the insight we know about
• The application is a storage hog, but if you want those metrics for that length of time then prepare to eat some disk space.

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