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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
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
376
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Virtualization Management Tools category, the mindshare of Foglight for Virtualization is 5.5%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 22.0%, down from 31.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Virtualization Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Operations22.0%
Foglight for Virtualization5.5%
Other72.5%
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."
"It is efficient and easy to manage. We can find what we need from the software's interface."
"The predictive analysis of the infrastructure helps our customers to reduce downtime and improve capacity planning."
"We use vRealize Operations Manager primarily for capacity management within our environment."
"It has helped our organization a great deal in terms of being able to identify and troubleshoot problems."
"It has also been a huge help with capacity management and with performance management."
"Their technical support is good. We haven't had too much use for them."
"The solution is intuitive and user-friendly. The UI is nice, it's really simple to use. Building out reports is very simple."
"It's solid and gives us the info we need, and are looking for."
 

Cons

"Quest Foglight for Virtualization's integration needs enhancement."
"There are some problems with integration, particularly with Slack, though these have been improved in the latest release."
"Some of the more advanced stuff takes a bit of time to dig into it. It takes a little longer to setup if you want really detailed stuff. They could make the learning curve smoother."
"Some of the improvements are related to the better user management. For example, there is need to see better tie-ins to the AD or to open the LDAP framework, so that we can actually have our main users logging in using the centralized authentication instead of having to set-up the users."
"When you are at your lowest, support is pretty bad. They ask you dumb questions but when you come to second and upper service desk, it is much easier and much better to talk to and resolve the issue."
"It wasn't exactly proactive. It was supposed to, but there were a lot of delays."
"A lot of the stuff we need assistance with is trying to get us help on our internal process of actually implementing stuff."
"At first, it was not so user-friendly because there was so much information that we were lost."
"The interface can be slow sometimes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is affordable."
"If you compare the prices of VMware and the cloud solutions along with the components that you may use, I feel that it may be costly."
"The licensing is not clear at the moment if the on-premises pricing is the same as on the cloud. I am checking on the pricing. However, you can save a lot of money with the cloud solution because you need to spend time installing, upgrading, and connecting with the on-premises solution. Also, you don't need to spend time scheduling the maintenance and maintaining the solution when using the cloud version."
"It has reduced time to troubleshoot issues. With our customized dashboards, we can target issues and attribute them to the correct team."
"We have seen ROI in performance. It used to be our company was giving out eight CPUs to all servers. That was bad performance-wise. People were seeing slow compute times for their applications."
"The product is too expensive to implement."
"We would like to build custom dashboards in the standard license. Right now, this is available in the enterprise license, not the standard license."
"The solution has a huge cost. If we could just have one license covering everything that vROps can do, that would be great. I would prefer it this way."
"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise281
 

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What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
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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...
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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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