VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

VMware Aria Operations and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. VMware Aria Operations is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is ranked #26 with an average rating of 7.0. VMware Aria Operations holds a 3.9% mindshare in CM, compared to VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of VMware Aria Operations users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMware Aria Operations and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth compete in virtual environment management and cost management for multi-cloud environments. Based on available data, VMware Aria Operations appears to have an advantage in monitoring and analytics, while VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth excels in cost management and visibility.

Features: VMware Aria Operations provides comprehensive monitoring for virtual environments with features like real-time analytics, dynamic thresholds, and predictive analytics. In contrast, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is strong in cost management and multi-cloud visibility, offering detailed financial analytics and cost-saving projections.

Room for Improvement: VMware Aria Operations users would benefit from enhanced reporting capabilities, easier dashboard customization, and better multi-tenancy support. Users also desire improved integration with third-party tools and expanded automation features. Meanwhile, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth requires better performance accuracy and more flexible pricing, along with improved predictive analytics and visualization features similar to competitors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Aria Operations is adaptable, often deployed on-premises or in hybrid settings, with reliable technical support, although users report occasional service delays. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is primarily used in public cloud environments and offers responsive customer service, though technical escalation processes could be more efficient.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Operations might be seen as expensive at higher tiers; bundling within larger VMware environments could reduce costs. Conversely, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth uses a cost-effective subscription model, praised for operational cost savings through optimized cloud expense management. Both products enhance ROI by reducing resource allocation waste, addressing specific enterprise needs.

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Categories and Ranking

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)

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Ranking in Cloud Management

26th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 3.9%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 1.8%, down from 2.0% 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%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth	1.8%
Other	94.3%

Cloud Management

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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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Cláudio Braga

AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM

Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements

The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud 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

"From infrastructure to application monitoring, vROps has a wide range of visibility into the monitoring spectrum."

"It helps an organization quickly create test and dev environments for developers to come up with new software and patch tests."

"We're more proactive than reactive, so that's important to our customers."

"It has helped us improve our end users lives with our Horizon VDI monitoring. We can look at our Horizon environment, see our response times for our users, quickly drill into any latency issues, and proactively troubleshoot without the end user not even knowing."

"It helps us make occasional reports and with that information, we can react proactively."

"I'd like to see the streamlining of more wizards, more tasks that are canned. And it would also be good to see some more features around building the Blueprints, just to make it a little easier."

"We are not constantly having to babysit or troubleshoot it. It does what it is designed to do, and it does a very good job of it."

"The latest incarnation of it is intuitive and user-friendly; the previous versions, not so much."

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"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

"Overall, it's one of the best products because it's easy to use and has a great dashboard."

"It's one of our core tools within our Zones Cloud Platforms tool bag, when we're looking at how we help customers optimize their cloud spend across their Azure and AWS environments today."

"Compared to AWS, the historic data on CloudHealth is a lot more helpful."

"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."

"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."

"We have some experience with RackWare and Red Hat, and right now I believe this solution to be number one in the market."

"The pricing is rather competitive right now."

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Cons

"There are certain issues with capturing the information on vSphere application metrics. vROps doesn't clearly capture those metrics."

"We would like better integration with the cloud because we use a multi-vendor cloud. We use AWS, which is fine, but we also use Azure and Google. We would like better plugins to those other two providers."

"It would be nice if it could tell me more about my hardware, if there were any updates on the network that should be deployed, if some firmware needs to be deployed on the server, etc."

"There are some distribution issues, and there is not enough information on the portal."

"I'd probably like to see a little bit more detail when you go through the drill-down menus, in regards to stats, and maybe the way the data is arranged could be a little bit more cosmetically appealing."

"The integration points can use improvement. We currently use a lot of third-party management packs to get insights for SQL, HP or Dell EMC. If we could have more integration built in as a standard feature that would make it slightly better."

"It does the functions that we need it to. Although we do have some issues from time to time. We're looking for more maturity out of the product but it's getting better with every release."

"I would like to see more features, especially in the way of Flash to HTML5."

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"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."

"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."

"When you start to virtualize things it gets very expensive."

"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."

"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

"Apptio Cloudability has better granular visibility of data that is missing in CloudHealth."

"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."

"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The billing is complicated because every country has a different option. Here in Chile, we don't pay for this kind of service with the Chilean pesos. We use another currency. In the future, I think vROps needs to work with governments for a native solution."

"The pricing is a little bit expensive. Licensing is an issue because there are always changes, and by that I mean cost increases. And that's not only for vROps but for VMware, vSphere, and all the products that are involved."

"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."

"Five or six years ago, when we took it, it was a very good option. Now, I think I have to reevaluate, to be honest."

"Our manpower costs have been reduced due to the automation in conjunction with the usage of the dashboard."

"The solution is slightly expensive."

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

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"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

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...

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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...

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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...

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...

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What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?

This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

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.

Broadcom

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth provides an intuitive dashboard, pricing flexibility, and accountability features, helping users allocate cloud costs, enhance security, and optimize expenses for improved cloud management.

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth stands out for its comprehensive cloud cost allocation by team, ensuring expense optimization and increased security. Its compliance management, scalability, and competitive pricing offer significant advantages. The platform facilitates monitoring across multi-cloud environments and delivers cost-saving recommendations. Transparent reporting and robust support enhance agility and aid in effective issue resolution.

What are the key features of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth?

Intuitive Dashboard: Simplifies cloud management with user-friendly interfaces.
Pricing Flexibility: Offers adaptable pricing models to suit diverse needs.
Accountability Features: Supports team-based cost allocation and tracking.
Compliance Management: Ensures security standards are consistently met.
Scalability: Supports elastic growth and resource management across environments.
Performance Optimization: Provides tools to optimize cloud performance and reduce waste.

What benefits should users expect when evaluating VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth?

Cost Savings: Identifies opportunities to optimize cloud spending.
Improved Security: Enhances cloud security protocols and monitoring.
Transparent Reporting: Delivers clear and detailed usage and cost reports.
Efficient Issue Resolution: Streamlines processes for swift problem-solving.

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is extensively implemented for cloud expenditure management in multi-cloud landscapes, aiding sectors like finance, healthcare, and retail in leveraging dashboards for enhanced transparency and financial control. Users rely on the platform for monitoring health conditions, reporting costs, optimizing spending, and driving accountability through detailed analytics and insights.

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Sample Customers

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

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

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