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vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

Score10 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

What is vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)?

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.

Top Performing Features

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.3

  • Cloud Management Security

    Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security

    Category average: 8

  • Automation and Orchestration

    Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.1

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.1

  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

    Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels

    Category average: 8.5

VMware vRealize & vCloud Suite- Efficient & Agile Solution for your Organization!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a heterogenous and hybrid cloud environment in our office. So, in order to manage the same, we have procured vcloud suite license which offers Vmware vsphere and Vmware vrealize suite. It was really a cost-effective solution for our company as it offers a bundled solution. It has helped our It admintrators also as they are now able to consolidate all the VMs from all the data centers through one platform.

Pros

  • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
  • Automation of IT management
  • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.

Cons

  • 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

Most Important Features

  • IT management
  • IT automation
  • Monitoring of VMs across all data centers via single management platform

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Microsoft System Center and Freshservice

Other Software Used

Microsoft System Center, Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly LANDESK Management Suite), Freshservice