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vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued

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12 Reviews and Ratings

What is vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued?

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) is an automated operations management solution that provides integrated performance, capacity, and configuration management for highly virtualized and cloud infrastructure. The product is currently discontinued.

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What users are saying about vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued.
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vCenter Operations Manager - You should be using it!

Incentivized
Roman FylerView profile
Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at Sunflower Bank, N.A. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to view Health Dashboard.
  • Easy to configure and implement.
  • Easy to quickly locate issues that need to be corrected or future performance issues through trending.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • +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.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds IP Address Manager

VCOPs saved my budget!

Incentivized
Eric KutylaView profile
Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at Bell (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Only thing I would like to see is a more affordable package with the forecasting and planning feature. Other than that, I really love this product

Return on Investment

  • The over allocation report allowed us to postpone new hardware purchases by 16 months by reclaiming resources.
  • Pro activeness to resolve issues with the build in alarms

Other Software Used

Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)