vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued vs. vRealize Operations (discontinued)

Capacity planing is great, and heat map analysis is phenomenal with its drill-down capabilities and versatility

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With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.

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• Resources allocation estimates are amazing, this feature allowed us to increase density on our hosts by reclaiming RAM and CPU from over allocated VMs letting us increase the amount of VMs per host. The report was very clear and easy to understand.
• The planing feature enabled us to gather all the info we needed to plan hardware purchases as it showed us, with our current rate of deployment, when we would reach capacity in or environment.
• The heat maps provided excellent drill down capabilities allowing for proactively resolving potential issues.

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• 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.

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• It would be nice to be able to make configuration changes either directly in vCenter Operations Manager or have it link back to the correct locations in vCenter.

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• If we can integrate it with other products, then it will be quite useful. Integration with some network devices and storage devices would be useful.
• It basically supports the system with big-size VM disks; it should be made available to support other devices and hardware as well.
• They may also need to improve on complex configuration.

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It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.

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Support has always been very good with vCenter Operations Manager.

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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

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SolarWinds as an overall tool is much more flexible. It allows you to perform tasks based on events, whereas the vCenter Operations Manager monitors your environment. SolarWinds costs more.

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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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• +Helped us identify a performance issue where our cluster was under-sized. We were able to order new hosts to bring performance in-line with expectations.
• +Saved us from purchasing a third-party monitoring tool.
• No negative impact.

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• 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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