Item: vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Vandana Yadav

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 and Cons

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

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

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.

Key Insights

Do you think vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued) go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Overall Satisfaction with vRealize & vCloud Suite