Red Hat CloudForms vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

Red Hat and Broadcom are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Red Hat is ranked #37, while Broadcom is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Red Hat holds a 1.9% mindshare in CM, compared to Broadcom’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Red Hat CloudForms

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMware Aria Operations and Red Hat CloudForms are both leaders in IT infrastructure management. VMware Aria Operations appears stronger within the VMware ecosystem, while Red Hat CloudForms brings broad multi-cloud compatibility.

Features: VMware Aria Operations provides predictive analytics, capacity planning, and real-time performance monitoring. Red Hat CloudForms offers multi-cloud management, integration across private and public clouds, and wide compatibility.

Room for Improvement: VMware Aria Operations can improve platform integration and UI simplicity. Red Hat CloudForms could benefit from enhanced update stability, better integration, and easier reporting tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Aria Operations supports flexible deployment across on-premises and cloud environments, with generally high marks for technical support. Red Hat CloudForms also offers various deployment models but faces some stability challenges. Customer support remains generally consistent despite changes related to IBM.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Operations is premium-priced, ideal for enterprises within the VMware ecosystem, with ROI seen in reduced operational costs. Red Hat CloudForms offers cost-effective subscription pricing, appealing for multi-cloud management, but may face competitiveness issues in pricing against market alternatives.

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat CloudForms

Ranking in Cloud Management

37th

Average Rating

6.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Aria Operations

Ranking in Cloud Management

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

376

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Red Hat CloudForms is 1.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 3.9%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
VMware Aria Operations	3.9%
Red Hat CloudForms	1.9%
Other	94.2%

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Ilhami Arikan

Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji

A stable solution that helps to provision servers

We use the solution to provision servers. I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs. The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved. I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten and…

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AldoDomini

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is compatible and integrates with various infrastructures or providers."

"They are a very mature product."

"The multi-tenancy feature has been very helpful for our clients. It has been working fine and seamlessly for them. Its interface is also very simplified, and it is also an open and easy-to-scale solution."

"I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs."

"The most valuable features of Red Hat CloudForms are the benefit of the collective functionality."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a stable product. There is no issue with the stability."

"The integration with other open-source tools is pretty good; it integrates particularly well with Kubernetes and Docker, and they are a very mature product."

"The optimization of the solution is quite interesting."

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"If you're looking to size your physical hardware or you're looking to rightsize your virtual infrastructure, then definitely take a look at vROps."

"It's solid and gives us the info we need, and are looking for."

"It is about being able to keep tabs on your VMware environment as a whole, instead of having to log into your vCenter all day and keeping tabs."

"The faults and alerts features are the most valuable features of the product."

"I'm actually deploying out systems and not delaying projects, because I have the insight of what resources that I'm short on or what resources I'm not short on."

"I would definitely recommend this solution."

"It has improved our time to deliver on systems for development workloads, and as we do that with our larger development platforms, they don't have to wait on us as infrastructure to spin those up, because they can just spin up what they need and get to work, giving us definite cost savings since a smaller workforce can take care of it in a timely manner."

"The predictive analysis of the infrastructure helps our customers to reduce downtime and improve capacity planning."

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Cons

"Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed."

"The solution is still quite immature."

"Because the solution needs to integrate with other products that surround it, there is a lot of configuration required, and this can be quite complex. It's not as easy as it is with, for example, VMware."

"I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions."

"The problem is that the platform requires it to be maintained and updated. Also, a few cases are still pending with the Red Hat support team since they are not closed yet."

"The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved."

"The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware."

"Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed. They should provide quicker and more stable updates. Its stability can also be better. We initially faced ease-of-use and compatibility issues while integrating it. We had a lot of compatibility issues with other products. Our clients are concerned about whether it is under IBM or it is still Red Hat. Clients are not very clear about the support, and they're not really happy with it. Currently, they're getting support from Red Hat, but going forward, they're not really clear about what would be the life cycle of the product, which is a concern for them."

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"I think, one of flaws is in its reporting, in that you can’t search, export or manipulate metrics relating to VM IOPS in a useful way, (version 5.6)."

"I'd like to see more out-of-the-box dashboards and less customizing of the environment. The interface could be more streamlined. There are still a lot of old dashboards versus the new UI dashboards."

"In this vCenter, my wish is to establish a backup system that doesn't require VIN. It involves creating a backup ticket directly from the vCenter for the virtual machines and performing the backup task for each server, ensuring redundancy without the need for additional software. This would be a preferable solution if all of this could be accomplished within vCenter itself."

"In terms of user-friendliness, there are a lot of areas that take a lot of time to research and figure out what the information is actually telling me, so that I know how to better use the product and troubleshoot issues that I see. It would be nice if they could fine-tune the user-interface a little bit."

"The biggest issue we have with it, honestly, is the interface, it's very unintuitive."

"One of the shortfalls with the algorithms of vRealize Operations is that if you want to add additional capacity and you're moving from one, just as an example, Intel generation to another generation, generally speaking, vROps only does it by megahertz, and not the new spec end values, as other tools can."

"For the most part, we have found it to be user-friendly. It has gotten better over time since the first version of vROps that I used. The interface has really improved since then."

"I do use Uila, which is very good. I would say it's more robust than vROps, because it's a single solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want."

"The product's licensing is based on the number of servers."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a bit expensive."

"It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."

"The price of Red Hat CloudForms was not competitive, it was expensive."

"Cost is an issue on vROps. The Standard edition, for an organization our size, is just not useful at all. However, I like the price point of vROps Standard. But as a company, the Advanced is the minimum version that we can use, because we need the customization, we need a lot of the features that Advanced brings. But the price is substantially higher than Standard. It's always been a challenge to try to go in to my leadership and say, "Here's what I want." I've always got to go back and super-justify it and it's not an easy win. Whereas, if the pricing were closer to the Standard model, or maybe even a little bit above that, it's an easier conversation with leadership. But because it really feels like more than double the price, I'm not sure the value, double the money, is there, as an easy-sell to my leadership."

"As we continue to implement it across multiple environments, it reduces costs as well."

"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."

"Every VMware product is a licensing challenge. It's always costly. It's based on processors. From a technical side, the product is very good. The challenging part is always the licensing. They should have some kind of alternate pricing models."

"The licensing is quite expensive for our company."

"Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way."

"vROps is a bit expensive and that's a reason that small clients say, 'No, I don't think we need this.' From a pricing perspective, it is quite steep. But 'expensive' is relative, depending on what you need. Others might say, 'It is expensive, but I think we can use it to better our environment.'"

"The licensing model is annual. Compared to the price of other products, VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is a bit on the high side. If it could be cheaper, it would be good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	66
Midsize Enterprise	61
Large Enterprise	281

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Also Known As

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VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)

Overview

Red Hat CloudForms is a robust management platform that integrates seamlessly with open-source technologies like Kubernetes and Docker. It offers flexibility with diverse infrastructures, scalability, and dynamic catalog creation.

Red Hat CloudForms supports service providers in UAE by offering a central console for infrastructure management. Known for its multi-tenancy and streamlined interface, it facilitates seamless integration with infrastructures like Nexus, Solaris, IBM, and VMware. Despite its strengths, challenges such as complexity and user-friendliness have been noted, with users requesting predefined modules, enhanced dashboards, and improved customization. The cost and platform lifecycle remain concerns, especially when compared to competitors like VMware. Permission refinement and provisioning engine improvements are also needed, as well as better cloud service integration and stability.

What features make Red Hat CloudForms stand out?

Seamless Integration: Works well with open-source components like Kubernetes and Docker.
Multi-Tenancy: Allows multiple users with separate environments.
Scalability: Designed to grow with infrastructure needs.
Dynamic Catalog Creation: Offers customized service delivery.
Report Capabilities: Provides in-depth analytics and reporting options.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated?

Flexibility: Supports diverse infrastructures like VMware and IBM.
Self-Service Provisioning: Reduces time to deploy and manage VMs.
Automated Infrastructure: Automates code for more efficient management.
Integration Opportunities: Works with Ansible Tower for application management.

In industries, Red Hat CloudForms serves as a central hub for service providers, managing and orchestrating platforms like NETGEAR, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware. Automation of infrastructure code, server management, and cloud infrastructure evaluation are core use cases, with users integrating technologies like Ansible Tower for daily task management and access delegation.

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VMware Aria Operations provides detailed metrics, graphing capabilities, and historical data for proactive infrastructure management, offering a single pane of glass for comprehensive views, alert notifications, and seamless integration with VMware tools.

VMware Aria Operations is designed for monitoring and optimizing virtual environments, empowering businesses to enhance infrastructure efficiency and manage workloads. With stress ratings and capacity planning, it facilitates troubleshooting performance issues while forecasting resource needs. Automation and integration with VMware tools streamline operations, making it indispensable for maintaining system health and enabling data-driven decisions. Users appreciate its comprehensive infrastructure views, though they note the interface complexity and high pricing as key considerations. Improved automation, third-party integration, and usability are desired enhancements.

What are the key features of VMware Aria Operations?

Single Pane of Glass: Provides comprehensive views of infrastructure for easy management.
Performance Monitoring: Tracks performance with detailed metrics and trend analysis.
Capacity Planning: Offers insights into stress ratings and future resource needs.
Alert Notifications: Effectively notifies users of potential system issues.
Automation and Integration: Streamlines operations with VMware tools.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Infrastructure Efficiency: Ensures optimal use of virtual environments for effective workload management.
Operational Visibility: Improves decision-making with detailed insights and analytics.
Resource Optimization: Helps forecast and allocate resources efficiently.
Proactive Management: Facilitates early detection of issues to maintain system health.

VMware Aria Operations' implementation across industries like finance, healthcare, and education showcases its utility in maintaining operational efficiency. It aids in tracking usage metrics and integrating workflows, benefiting sectors with critical performance and resource management needs.

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Sample Customers

Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)

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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