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 #2 with an average rating of 8.7, while VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.0. VMware Aria Operations holds a 4.9% mindshare in CM, compared to VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth’s 1.7% 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

2nd

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

22nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 4.9%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 1.7%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
VMware Aria Operations	4.9%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth	1.7%
Other	93.4%

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

"With this solution, we are able to see where problems are happening quickly and improve turnaround time, which matters to us."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with the vSphere Client and being able to go quickly back and forth between an incident within the vSphere interface and the actual drilling into it within vROps, to identify problems."

"All our capacity management and capacity planning processes are based on vROps. Without this tool, we are unable to predict what we need, at what time we need to purchase new hardware, whether we should upgrade, etc."

"Avoiding problems in the monitoring area is our strength. We use real-time monitoring models and real-time monitoring to do this. We also provide other capabilities, such as seeing changes in the environment."

"I would rate this solution a seven. We don't use it enough for me to give it a ten. There's a lot of value to it but we don't fully exercise it. It's a great product depending on what everyone's needs are."

"The most valuable feature is the ability it has to adjust the efficiency inside the infrastructure."

"I rated this solution an eight because it's intuitive and easy to use. The features that it'll bring us are tremendous"

"The most valuable features are the health tree and the alerts that tell us what's going on from a glance at the dashboard. As far as showing us where the problems are, what's useful is that it gives us suggested solutions to fix them, so that's helpful."

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"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."

"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."

"The pricing is rather competitive right now."

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

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

"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

"The solution is good for cloud cost management."

"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."

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Cons

"We do not find this solution to be user-friendly. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done and a lot of work has to go into getting the graphs right. It's not a "plug and play" type of thing. You really have to put in a lot of work. You always have to be aware of what's going on within the machines. It needs to be improved from end-to-end."

"Adding some intelligence to VMware Aria Operations, such as event correlation, and some level of AI apps will improve the solution, similar to what we see with the more advanced monitoring solutions that we don't currently have."

"Monitoring is useful but if the solution can't automate or function without my input, it's a waste of my time. That's where I found out there are some issues with this product, there are elements that are not as intuitive as they could or should be."

"In the next release, vROps should add integration with Apache OpenStack."

"It wasn't exactly proactive. It was supposed to, but there were a lot of delays. It could also be because of our infrastructure and the way our network was set up. If vROps could be more proactive, that would be nice. It is nice to have the information beforehand, but when there is downtime, it takes a lot of time for us to be able to see an issue in real-time, which becomes a bit challenging. If there is a way to improve the data collection for the whole vCenter that would be nice because data collection takes a lot of time."

"Your range of use will be restricted by the license level you have chosen."

"I don't find this solution to be intuitive and user-friendly. It's a large and difficult product to learn. We need to search for more information."

"We have an Enterprise Plus license, so there's a long list of stuff that you get with the Enterprise Plus license, and I'd like to see a better integration of all the vRealize components."

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"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."

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

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

"The Perspectives feature could be better."

"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."

"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."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The solution is slightly expensive."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"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."

"The value that we get from vROps is okay. It could be cheaper."

"vRealize Operations has proved to be a cost effective solution for our big environment."

"We would like to build custom dashboards in the standard license. Right now, this is available in the enterprise license, not the standard license."

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

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	62
Large Enterprise	278

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

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)

Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth

Overview

VMware Aria Operations is a high-ranking virtualization management and cloud management tool that automates and simplifies IT management to the applications it supports. It achieves this through full-stack visibility from physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. The product allows users to enable self-driving IT operations management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This is conducted with the unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, and integrated compliance through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics.

VMware Aria Operations Use Cases

VMware Aria Operations has several use cases, some of which include:

Continuous performance optimization: VMware Aria Operations allows users to assure application performance at a minimal cost, facilitated by real-time predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. The product can be used to automatically balance workloads, improve consolidation rations, optimize and rightsize workloads, and avoid contention.
Capacity and cost management: VMware Aria Operations can be utilized to reduce cost and improve efficiency with real-time ML-based capacity and cost analytics. The solution uses these tools to visualize cost savings opportunities and accelerate decision-making.
Intelligent remediation: This product can also be used to predict, prevent, and troubleshoot issues with actionable insights. Through other VMware integrations, users can streamline and centralize IT operations.
Integrated compliance: The solution can be utilized to reduce risk and enforce IT regulatory standards for VMware Cloud through integrated compliance and automated drift remediation.

VMware Aria Operations Features

The product has various features which users can utilize. Several of the features that the 2022 version of VMware Aria Operations introduced include:

Management pack builder: This feature is a no-code solution that allows users to expand their operations visibility to anywhere they wish. The builder allows users to connect to a data source using an HTTP or Amazon AWS data source, as well as to make API calls, create objects, and build out relationships with other objects in the product.
Public cloud basic actions: This is a set of features that allows VMware Aria Operations users to initiate actions automatically via the product's UI for AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP CE instances.
Rule-based application discovery: Through this new feature of the product, users can easily discover multiple applications running in all or specific areas of infrastructure and view associated resources. This can be achieved through simple user-defined rules, including discovering applications based on tags, object names, and properties.
Aria Operations capacity management: This feature allows organizations to view the results of what-if analysis based on their allocation model and specify business hours for capacity calculations.
Alerts: This is a set of features that include components called Conditions and Symptoms, which are used to alert different types of issues on the platform.
User access management: Through this feature, users can benefit from improved ways to configure in VMware Aria Operations with the introduction of scopes.
Support for raw device mapping storage: This feature allows users to get configuration details about their raw device mapping (RDM), such as disk sharing, compatibility mode, and SCSI Bus Sharing.

VMware Aria Operations Benefits

VMware Aria Operations brings various benefits to the organizations using it. Among them are the following:

The product helps organizations reduce unplanned downtime and maximize return on investment (ROI) in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
VMware Aria Operations simplifies management for hybrid clouds from migration assessments.
Users can benefit from an accelerated journey to VMware Cloud on AWS through this solution.
The product can be delivered on premises or as a service, providing flexibility for its users.
VMware Aria Operations can increase operational efficiency through monitoring and management features.
The solution accelerates decision-making through detailed cost analytics, which is visualized for users' convenience.
VMware Aria Operations allows users to both utilize standard compliance templates and create their own custom ones.

Reviews from Real Users

Mohamed N., a tech lead VMware support engineer at a tech services company, appreciates VMware Aria Operations because it is easy to use, stable, and support is always available.

Mojtaba K., a senior system administrator at a comms service provider, values VMware Aria Operations due to the fact that its dashboards give you a glimpse of what is really going on in your virtualized environment.

Broadcom

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.

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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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