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vRealize Operations (discontinued)

vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Formerly Aria Operations

Overview

What is vRealize Operations (discontinued)?

vRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer available for…

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Recent Reviews

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Users have found the software to be invaluable for monitoring and managing their virtual environments. With the ability to generate daily …
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VRO Review

7 out of 10
November 04, 2016
Incentivized
It is implemented across the organization. Basically it is used to only monitor our virtual environment. We are not monitoring hardware …
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What is vRealize Operations (discontinued)?

vRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer…

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Product Demos

Capacity Management with vRealize Operations

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VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8.6 Installation Demo by Abdulaziz Bin Aqeel

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VMware Enterprise PKS Demo: vRealize Operations

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VMware Aria Operations for Networks Integration with VMware Aria Operations

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Product Details

What is vRealize Operations (discontinued)?

vRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer available for sale. Capabilities of this product are now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation.

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vRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer available for sale.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of vRealize Operations (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found the software to be invaluable for monitoring and managing their virtual environments. With the ability to generate daily reports through PowerShell scripting, it helps users stay informed about the performance and health of their VMware infrastructure. By providing insights into resource optimization, such as identifying underutilized resources like RAM, CPU, and storage, the software enables users to make informed decisions about their environment. It also assists with workflow operations by aiding in planning deployments and determining if hosts or clusters can handle new VMs with specific specifications.

The software's custom dashboards are highly regarded by users as they allow for the creation of project and application-specific views. This feature is particularly useful for app managers and contractors to monitor their respective environments and resources. Additionally, the software offers troubleshooting workbenches that streamline issue identification and resolution, making it instrumental in day-to-day troubleshooting tasks. Users have also appreciated recent upgrades that have improved the user interface, enhancing navigation and reducing clutter.

Overall, the software's use cases span a wide range of monitoring, management, optimization, and troubleshooting functions within virtual environments. Its ability to provide detailed insights and customizable dashboards makes it an essential tool for those looking to efficiently manage their VMware infrastructure.

Seamless Integration: Users have consistently praised the seamless integration capabilities of the VMware product. They find it incredibly easy to incorporate into their existing systems without any major disruptions or complications, making the overall implementation process smooth and efficient.

Effective Monitoring Capabilities: Reviewers across multiple sources have highlighted the agentless nature of the VMware product as a significant advantage. This feature not only simplifies the setup process but also provides highly effective monitoring capabilities. With this solution, users can effortlessly keep track of application performance and speed, ensuring optimal functionality and user experience.

Customizable Reporting: Many users have expressed their satisfaction with the reporting capabilities offered by the VMware product. The ability to customize reports according to specific needs and preferences has been particularly appreciated. Users can easily generate detailed reports that can be shared with different teams or departments within their organization. Moreover, they value the flexibility to create personalized dashboards focusing on critical infrastructure attributes such as CPU usage, memory allocation, and disk performance. This level of customization empowers users to gain valuable insights into system performance and make informed decisions for resource optimization and cost management purposes.

Limited customization options: Some users have found that the software has limited space for customization, making it difficult to tailor it to their specific needs.

Lack of OS monitoring capability: Several reviewers have mentioned that the software does not offer OS monitoring functionality, which limits its usefulness in certain scenarios.

Complexity and difficulty in obtaining desired information: Many users have expressed frustration with the overall complexity of the software and the challenges they face in obtaining the desired information. They often need assistance from VMware to set up the software and find it troublesome to navigate and determine how to access the necessary data.

Based on user reviews, here are the recommendations for vRealize Operations:

  • Try out the application monitoring and Server application discovery features. These features provide valuable insights into the performance and health of applications and servers.

  • Consider integrating vRealize Operations with other tools and services. It offers easy integration options, allowing for a unified view of the environment and efficient troubleshooting.

  • Connect cloud accounts, such as AWS and vCloud, to vRealize Operations for comprehensive monitoring of the cloud environment. This provides better visibility and control over cloud resources in both public and private clouds.

Users highly recommend vRealize Operations for its ability to improve IT solutions. They believe that it is a must-have tool for both public and private cloud environments. Additionally, they suggest considering its full integration with the VMware environment, ease of setup, and time-saving troubleshooting capabilities. While some users mention that it may be expensive, they acknowledge that there are cheaper alternatives available in the market.

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(1-5 of 5)
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Arvind Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
vRealize Operations is becoming very helpful in our day-to-day activities. It offers so many features like dashboards, reports, views, troubleshooting workbenches. The major business problems it addresses are, centralized management can be done easily, optimizing infrastructure or cluster, fetching reports as per the available metrics, easier to troubleshoot a VM or ESXi using timestamping.
  • Troubleshooting Workbench to work on multiple data at one place.
  • Datacenter Resources/ Cost Optimization Suggestions.
  • Centralized Management between on-premises and cloud resources.
  • Customized management packs.
  • Bit tricky in terms of policy objects.
  • Virtual machine adaptor has some limited metrics available.
It comes really handy for repeated tasks like weekly/monthly health checks, schedule fetching automatic reports, troubleshooting any performance issues. I used it for getting reports like old snapshots or VMs with ISO mounted, datastores running out of capacity, and a lot more. Sometimes it becomes less appropriate while searching for a specific metric.
  • Connecting AWS instances for management.
  • It supports third party management packs like Blue Medora.
  • Troubleshooting workbench for fixing issues.
  • We switched from a different product to vRealize Operations.
  • Monitoring/alerts are now much easier to handle.
  • SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Much compatibility with our VMware Infrastructure.
Mike Nostrom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using vROPS for about 6 yrs now. We use this product to help us get a better insight into our virtual environment's health and performance. The product has a plethora of other product packs you can install to help manage or just get information on other devices, appliances, or products within your environment. We use vROPS primarily with our virtual infrastructure and it provides up meaning full alerts for ussies not seen by our end users. The depth and detail of the metrics I am able to pull from our virtual environment allow us to pinpoint the issues quicker than many other products I have used. With this product, I can easily develop a dashboard specific to projects and applications to allow app managers and contractors to view their specific environment and all the related resources. The product runs on its own vAPP, with its own database structure which is nice so that there is no degrading underlying Microsoft OS to deal with or link to an already overburdened SQL DB. The most recent upgrade of vROPs has cleaned up a lot of clutter and streamlined the menu interface. This product is extremely helpful in troubleshooting our day-to-day issues and I know we are only using but a fraction of its capabilities. vROPs also allow you to perform forecasting and hypothetical environment changes to provide you with impact statistics which are helpful in a resource tight environment.
  • graphical reports
  • Alerts
  • application speed
  • single pain of glass
  • reporting
  • reclamation report - I miss this feature
  • system health status reports
  • richer user community
If you are running a VMware virtual environment it makes sense to go with the product designed by the same company. We never run into the blaming game that it's vCenter and not vROPS if a communication or metric issue arises. You receive support from the same company for either product and the support techs know how to fix either environment to resolve the problem. We have been able to pull some very detailed metrics to help troubleshoot issues that would in the past take multiple people many hours to figure out. I am always able to provide the right information to the right people to allow them to make a decision on a fix for the issue. I love being able to provide Application Support personnel and Contractors loads of data and pretty graphs to show the behavior of their product when issues arise. No, it was not the network it was your application. vROPS helps me to provide monthly reports to help different projects stay on track. Without it, I would be stuck using PowerShell and banging my head against the wall.
  • alerts
  • reporting
  • metrics gathered
  • 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.
  • Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm) and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
SCOM was quite overwhelming when we first set up a POC for it. There was just too much for one person to handle. With vROPs I can manage the product and provide the support needed for my environment. We also have a Solarwinds environment that provides us with a level of detail and alerting we have come to rely upon. vROPS takes it to another level because it links directly into vCenter to provide you with a complete picture of your virtual environment.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this program to monitor our VMware infrastructure. With this software we are able to create custom dashboards to ensure that capacity and performance are in line with our service level offering. vRealize allows us to define our own in key performance indicators and send out alerts when they fall below specific thresholds.
  • Create custom dashboards focusing on customized infrastructure attributes such as cpu, memory, disk.
  • Send automated reports.
  • More features should be available in the standard version.
  • Licensing is very expensive.
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.
  • Easy access to dashboards and metrics displaying our key performance indicators.
  • Verbose alerting to help find the problem quickly.
We have not tried any other products yet however I hear that turbonomic is a big competitor.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use vRealize Operations to help with workflow operations. The ability to plan deployments, which help with determining if hosts or clusters can handle a new VM with specific specs. we also use vRealize in determining where we can save on resources such as deleting VM's that have been turned off for so many days, or if a VM is under utilizing ram, CPU, or storage. Finally we use vRealize in a health check of our environment which has been very helpful during outages.
  • 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
  • Its a complex software that is gathering info daily, sometimes determining how to get the info you want can be troublesome that requires the help from VMware to get setup.
  • A better search function to allow users to pull info instead of going through predetermine dashboards
A health checker of an environment, that will tell you cost analysis of what that fault or vm is costing your company. vRealize will also tell you where you can save costs by removing unused resources.
  • We believe that the ability to preplan deployments with vRealize has proven its return on investments.
  • Our troubleshooting time has been reduced with vrealize because its constantly collecting performance data. typically vrealize will tell us cause of fault before we can determine it ourselves.
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Over the past year there hasn't been any complaints from my team about vrealize, in fact we have only noticed positive results.
Ivanti Security Controls, BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar), HCL BigFix (formerly from IBM)
November 04, 2016

VRO Review

Parag Bhardwaj | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is implemented across the organization. Basically it is used to only monitor our virtual environment. We are not monitoring hardware from VRO. I have done some PowerShell scripting with VRO and created some daily reports. It is working OK for now. I have mixed feelings on VRO and there may be a better option available in the market but I am not the decision maker.
  • It is a VMware product so integration is so easy.
  • It is agentless and monitoring very well.
  • I like the dynamic threshold option where value is set on its own.
  • There are less space for customization.
  • Cannot use for OS monitoring.
  • Some option are very complex like getting an ideal VM report.
vRealize Operations (VRO) is the best option if you are a complete VMware shop. Like if you have vCenter, VRA and VCO. This is the right product to monitor your virtual environments. But it's not suited for any OS and application level monitoring. Some functions are very complex and need good technical knowledge. I cannot make some HTML based daily reports which we could use for management level reporting(like a graph and table in one report).
  • Best option for VMware shop
We are a VMware shop and need monitoring from VMware. Also, I am not the decision maker here. I believe because of being a VMware shop we choose VRO and also may be my company got a great deal. I like this product although there is a lot of stuff to improve.
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