Azure Automation vs. vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Azure Automation is a solution to automate frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks, and ensures consistent management for Windows and Linux. Users can write runbooks graphically in PowerShell or Python to integrate Azure services and other public systems required for deploying, configuring, and managing end-to-end processes. It can also be used to orchestrate across on-premises environments using a hybrid runbook worker to deliver on-demand services. Automations from…N/A
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Score 9.9 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
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Editions & Modules
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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
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
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Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Azure Automation
7.2
1 Ratings
14% below category average
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Ratings
Multi-platform scheduling5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure Automation
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Ratings
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8.1
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow
Score 8.6 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Control-M
Control-M
Score 9.3 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
We have found Azure Automation to be well-suited for tasks that must be performed on a scheduled basis. No matter how simple or tedious tasks are to perform manually, if they run on a scheduled basis, it makes sense to have them automated. If the tasks at hand are only performed once or infrequently, then it may be best to continue performing them manually.
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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
Microsoft
  • Scheduled automation of Microsoft 365 and Azure tasks
  • Scheduled automation of scripting (e.g. Powershell)
  • Perform periodic maintenance
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  • 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
Microsoft
  • An automation template library would be nice
  • Clear estimation of costs - this goes for the entire Azure Automation platform
  • It can be daunting at first due to all the settings and menu levels, but it is not difficult once you get started.
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  • 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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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We did not evaluate any other automation products since we are already using Microsoft 365 and the Azure platform. Additionally, Azure Automation allows for a reasonable number of tasks to be performed each month at no cost, which is especially nice when testing the platform. We found Azure Automate's integration of Powershell invaluable when working directly with Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, Azure AD, and other systems via API.
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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
Microsoft
  • Ensures tasks are not forgotten
  • Saves times - routine tasks no longer have to be performed manually
  • Complicated tasks are no longer an issue
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  • 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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