vRealize Operations (discontinued)

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.

• 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)

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

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.

• It is quite useful application to monitor system logs.
• It provides real-time monitoring of application logs, network traces, config files, and event messages.
• It has a useful UI and customizable dashboard.

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.

• Connecting AWS instances for management.
• It supports third party management packs like Blue Medora.
• Troubleshooting workbench for fixing issues.

• We switched from a different product to vRealize Operations.
• Monitoring/alerts are now much easier to handle.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

VMware vRealize Automation, with SaltStack Config, Nutanix AOS, vSphere

• 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.

Ivanti Security Controls, BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar), HCL BigFix (formerly from IBM)

• Easy access to dashboards and metrics displaying our key performance indicators.
• Verbose alerting to help find the problem quickly.

NetApp SolidFire, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Cisco UCS B-Series