General review of vRealize Operations Manager
December 10, 2021

General review of vRealize Operations Manager

Mike Nostrom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with vRealize Operations

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
  • 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.

Do you think vRealize Operations (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with vRealize Operations (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did vRealize Operations (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of vRealize Operations (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy vRealize Operations (discontinued) again?

Yes

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
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.