vRealize Operations (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

Score9.9 out of 10

39 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Seamless Integration: Users have consistently praised the seamless integration capabilities of the VMware product. They find it incredibly easy to incorporate into their existing systems without any major disruptions or complications, making the overall implementation process smooth and efficient.

Effective Monitoring Capabilities: Reviewers across multiple sources have highlighted the agentless nature of the VMware product as a significant advantage. This feature not only simplifies the setup process but also provides highly effective monitoring capabilities. With this solution, users can effortlessly keep track of application performance and speed, ensuring optimal functionality and user experience.

Customizable Reporting: Many users have expressed their satisfaction with the reporting capabilities offered by the VMware product. The ability to customize reports according to specific needs and preferences has been particularly appreciated. Users can easily generate detailed reports that can be shared with different teams or departments within their organization. Moreover, they value the flexibility to create personalized dashboards focusing on critical infrastructure attributes such as CPU usage, memory allocation, and disk performance. This level of customization empowers users to gain valuable insights into system performance and make informed decisions for resource optimization and cost management purposes.

vRealize Operations (discontinued) Reviews

6 Reviews

A tool to have for real time monitoring and analysing system logs and network traces.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vmware vRealize log to manage, analyze, monitor, and administer system logs. It helps us in the monitoring of application logs, network traces, configure files, messages, and performance data and can be monitored on the UI.

Pros

It is used for log collection and analysis the virtual applications. Admins collect, view, manage and analyze system logs.
It provides real-time monitoring of application logs, network traces, config files, notification alerts, etc.
Provide the ability to manage infra, which helps in identifying and troubleshooting virtual applications.
The new features like proxy less event forwarding to vRealize log insight cloud are quite useful.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Mohanish Khatkhede

Associate Consultant in Professional Services at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees)

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2 years of experience

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vRealize Operations - Infrastructure Management on fingertips!!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

vRealize Operations is becoming very helpful in our day-to-day activities. It offers so many features like dashboards, reports, views, troubleshooting workbenches. The major business problems it addresses are, centralized management can be done easily, optimizing infrastructure or cluster, fetching reports as per the available metrics, easier to troubleshoot a VM or ESXi using timestamping.

Pros

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.

Cons

Bit tricky in terms of policy objects.
Virtual machine adaptor has some limited metrics available.

Likelihood to Recommend

It comes really handy for repeated tasks like weekly/monthly health checks, schedule fetching automatic reports, troubleshooting any performance issues. I used it for getting reports like old snapshots or VMs with ISO mounted, datastores running out of capacity, and a lot more. Sometimes it becomes less appropriate while searching for a specific metric.

Arvind Kumar

Senior Consultant - VMware & Infrastructure in Information Technology at Novartis (10,001+ employees)

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8 years of experience

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General review of vRealize Operations Manager

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

graphical reports
Alerts
application speed
single pain of glass
reporting

Cons

reclamation report - I miss this feature
system health status reports
richer user community

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Mike Nostrom

Senior Systems Software Specialist in Information Technology at Delaware Department of Health & Social Services (10,001+ employees)

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6 years of experience

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vRealize Operations Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this program to monitor our VMware infrastructure. With this software we are able to create custom dashboards to ensure that capacity and performance are in line with our service level offering. vRealize allows us to define our own in key performance indicators and send out alerts when they fall below specific thresholds.

Pros

Create custom dashboards focusing on customized infrastructure attributes such as cpu, memory, disk.
Send automated reports.

Cons

More features should be available in the standard version.
Licensing is very expensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

VRealize is well suited for an organization that is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem. There are a ton of plugins and management packs that will allow you to integrate with just about every major area of your infrastructure whether its storage, backup, cloud, or monitoring related. It is less appropriate for a company that does not already have a financial licensing agreement with VMware already established as it can be very expensive if paid for a la carte.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

vRealize and how it saved our company

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 2, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use vRealize Operations to help with workflow operations. The ability to plan deployments, which help with determining if hosts or clusters can handle a new VM with specific specs. we also use vRealize in determining where we can save on resources such as deleting VM's that have been turned off for so many days, or if a VM is under utilizing ram, CPU, or storage. Finally we use vRealize in a health check of our environment which has been very helpful during outages.

Pros

Shows us where we can save on cost of keeping machines running, or boosting resources on VM's
the ability to plan deployments with scenario plans that can be customized over a specific timeline
reports that can be sent and shared with different teams or departments

Cons

Its a complex software that is gathering info daily, sometimes determining how to get the info you want can be troublesome that requires the help from VMware to get setup.
A better search function to allow users to pull info instead of going through predetermine dashboards

Likelihood to Recommend

A health checker of an environment, that will tell you cost analysis of what that fault or vm is costing your company. vRealize will also tell you where you can save costs by removing unused resources.

David Baca

System Administrator in Information Technology at Concentra (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

VRO Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

November 4, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is implemented across the organization. Basically it is used to only monitor our virtual environment. We are not monitoring hardware from VRO. I have done some PowerShell scripting with VRO and created some daily reports. It is working OK for now. I have mixed feelings on VRO and there may be a better option available in the market but I am not the decision maker.

Pros

It is a VMware product so integration is so easy.
It is agentless and monitoring very well.
I like the dynamic threshold option where value is set on its own.

Cons

There are less space for customization.
Cannot use for OS monitoring.
Some option are very complex like getting an ideal VM report.

Likelihood to Recommend

vRealize Operations (VRO) is the best option if you are a complete VMware shop. Like if you have vCenter, VRA and VCO. This is the right product to monitor your virtual environments. But it's not suited for any OS and application level monitoring. Some functions are very complex and need good technical knowledge. I cannot make some HTML based daily reports which we could use for management level reporting(like a graph and table in one report).

Parag Bhardwaj

Senior Infrastucture engineer in Information Technology at American Airlines (10,001+ employees)

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4 years of experience

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