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Foglight for Virtualization vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Foglight for Virtualization
Ranking in Virtualization Management Tools
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Operations
Ranking in Virtualization Management Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
376
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Virtualization Management Tools category, the mindshare of Foglight for Virtualization is 5.1%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 22.8%, down from 32.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Virtualization Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Operations22.8%
Foglight for Virtualization5.1%
Other72.1%
Virtualization Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Waleed Masad - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at METS
Easy-to-setup product with efficient data migration features
Many customers consider Quest Foglight for Virtualization a critical tool for migrations or new projects. In particular, one noteworthy case involved a bank that made Foglight integration a prerequisite. Some customers now rely 100% entirely on Foglight for their daily operations The product is…
AldoDomini - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Network Analyst at Net spa
Have faced limitations due to high costs but have maintained reliability over time
The primary issue is the pricing, which is very expensive for my company's budget. We cannot afford to pay such a large fee. We are not Microsoft or BMW; we are a small company. As a small company, I have no power to negotiate directly with VMware. Perhaps larger companies have more opportunity to contract directly with VMware, but I do not have that leverage. The only path I can follow is to change solutions. Net.spA is a company working in the field of waste management. We are not a technological company, so we do not have a large margin to justify purchasing and maintaining the VMware infrastructure at current costs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is stable and easy to set up. It provides minimum false alarms."
"I like the dashboards. We can view in our service groups before something in our service goes wrong and causes issues."
"It gives us quicker time to resolution, is a very powerful tool, and gives us the ability to get a lot of visibility that we just did not have before."
"We're more proactive than reactive, so that's important to our customers."
"We've gone from having no insight into the type of resources which we're using to a lot of insight, providing many different reports on how to keep our business running efficiently."
"It has helped to reduce time to troubleshoot issues and improved quality of service."
"The most valuable features of VMware Aria Operations include monitoring CPU, memory, and storage."
"I have integrated vROps with vRealize Log Insight and vRealize automation. After integrating vRealize, we tried to split and combine the logs from the login sites for more alerts and information to organize the whole infrastructure and have automation. We used many different types of scripts trying to orchestrate them all together into one solution, replacing, for example, Elasticsearch and some other scripts."
"I don't think there's any other monitoring software that I'd choose or sell to a customer."
 

Cons

"Quest Foglight for Virtualization's integration needs enhancement."
"I do use Uila, which is very good. I would say it's more robust than vROps, because it's a single solution."
"There are some metrics that are not included in the canned set, that we've created. They call them super metrics in the tool, where you create your own metric. But the super metrics are not really reliable. It might be because we didn't create them correctly, although we did have help from VMware. They also don't translate into newer versions like a canned metric would. One of them is a vCPU to pCPU ratio. That's one that is missing, which should be very simple for them to collect."
"It can get a bit complex when getting into the endpoint monitoring during setup."
"It's great at providing information but to the point where it can be overwhelming sometimes."
"More HTML 5 would also be good. I wish vSphere Client would mirror it. I wish they announced it on day one of 6.7."
"If it's just there to monitor, what's the point? You could use other tools, but if you're trying to do more with less and you're spending a lot of money on rightsizing this and deploying it correctly, it'd be better if I'd actually get something more than just a nice dashboard."
"We would like to have monitoring for containers."
"An area for improvement would be application-level monitoring."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is affordable."
"Most small users don't adopt VMware Aria Operations until it's necessary. Small businesses are looking for it, too. We need more monitoring and insights, so we're analyzing solutions to help us out here. I rate the solution’s pricing a five out of ten."
"I would like to see a free offering. Cost is always a factor in any sort of line. Obviously, the value added is there and it's worth it."
"The pricing: It's expensive."
"The licensing is quite expensive for our company."
"I would give the solution a three out of five, with one being cheap and five being expensive. There are some elements of the pricing that are good, and some areas where I feel like I'm being charged for something the product can't provide yet."
"We did an enterprise license agreement with our VMware partner and put this in our bundle. We tried it and loved it, so we use it now."
"Our manpower costs have been reduced due to the automation in conjunction with the usage of the dashboard."
"Pricing is good for us. We're non-profit so we get a break on that."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise281
 

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What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...
Is VMware Aria Operations a user friendly solution?
In terms of user-friendliness, VMware Aria Operations is one of the best solutions out there. It is not overly complex to set up and you can rely on the technical support to provide you with assis...
What is the most useful new feature of VMware Aria Operations?
For me, the alerts features are the most unique part of this product, no matter the current name it uses. When they introduced the new version of VMware Aria Operations, they also introduced more a...
 

Also Known As

VKernel vScope Explorer, vOPS Server, Vizioncore
VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)
 

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Sample Customers

Unimat, AeroM_xico Delta TechOps
Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
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