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VMware Aria Automation pros and cons

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4.0 out of 5

171 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

VMware Aria Automation enables quick infrastructure provisioning with seamless AWS and Azure integration and supports multi-tenant environments for optimal resource management. It offers customization with industry tools but faces challenges with Google Cloud integration and inadequate technical support. The upgrade process is complex, requiring expert knowledge and often external help. High costs may deter some buyers considering alternatives, impacting its attractiveness despite its scalability and lifecycle management capabilities.

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PROS

VMware Aria Automation effectively integrates with other VMware suites and cloud providers, boosting operational efficiency.

It significantly accelerates VM deployment, reducing hours of manual provisioning to just minutes.

The platform automates repetitive tasks, improving provisioning speed and infrastructure agility.

Users appreciate its extensive automation capabilities and seamless integration with existing workflows and external tools.

VMware Aria Automation’s extensibility supports diverse scripting languages and robust lifecycle management.

CONS

VMware Aria Automation lacks integration support for Google Cloud and Azure, limiting its ability to cohesively manage diverse environments.

Technical support for VMware Aria Automation is reportedly lagging behind product advancements, making troubleshooting and issue resolution challenging.

The upgrade process for VMware Aria Automation is complex and often problematic, requiring significant resources and support interactions.

Complex initial setup processes require expert intervention, making it challenging for teams without technical expertise to implement VMware Aria Automation efficiently.

Integration and automation capabilities with third-party products and services could be improved, limiting VMware Aria Automation's flexibility and efficiency in diverse IT environments.

VMware Aria Automation Pros review quotes

Head of Operations and Infrastructure at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 19, 2016

The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment.

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Sr Engineer/Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 29, 2017

I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this.

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Linear Dimensions, Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees

Aug 28, 2018

The most valuable features are that it's multi-tenant and the ability for scale.

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Director of Infrastructure at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

The blueprint functionality of the product is intuitive and user-friendly. The concept of the blueprints is visual and easy to use.

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JT

Customer Apps Manager at Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago Limited (TSTT)

Sep 2, 2018

Among the valuable features are the ease and speed of creating the VMs. Originally, we provisioned them manually and it would take us two days to do the provisioning... but with the automation, we are able to provision a VM with the click of a button, within seconds. It cut down on the time as well as cut down on the expense and employee cost in provisioning.

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Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sep 2, 2018

The repetitive tasks which took provisioning storage, network, and compute two to three weeks, now takes five minutes.

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DevOps Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

The self service portal: People don't have to come to us to request something. They can just go fill out a form. Within 30 minutes, they have what they requested.

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Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

To manage when VM's aren't being used, we have it set up so that it will auto-destroy them after a certain amount of time, obviously with permission from the user who owns it.

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Chief Architect at Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENS-Inc)

Sep 2, 2018

If you do a deployment for a proof of concept, it is simple.

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Senior Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Sep 2, 2018

I personally spend a lot of time in vRealize Orchestrator, so being able to directly tie into the back end on the APIs, I find that to be what really is the most advantageous thing for me.

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VMware Aria Automation Cons review quotes

Head of Operations and Infrastructure at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Oct 19, 2016

A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated.

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Sr Engineer/Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 29, 2017

Web UI.

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Linear Dimensions, Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees

Aug 28, 2018

I would like to see more integration to do things like DR, from a court perspective. Today, for us, SRM doesn't scale because each of our customers has a local vCenter environment as well as the vCenter in our environment. So we can't get SRM to scale to the point to which we need. From an integration perspective, DR inside of that would be good.

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Director of Infrastructure at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

I would like to see support for Google Cloud and Azure. Because they don't support Google and Azure today, we need something that's cohesive with our entire landscape. There is a gap right now with VMware. If you want support for these environments, you have to go elsewhere right now.

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JT

Customer Apps Manager at Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago Limited (TSTT)

Sep 2, 2018

I would like to see a simpler way of provisioning it. As is, we can automate the provisioning of a VM, however, when it comes to the external IPs, that is outside of VMware. But that has to be automated as well. If there was a way for us to have the virtual machines connect to switches that are external to VMware, that would be great. That way, it would handle the entire workflow from creation and provisioning of a VM to the connectivity to the external IP addresses which allow our customers to have access to the VM. Currently, that IP configuration has to be done manually.

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Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sep 2, 2018

VMware should go the way of vROps, with everything in one machine, the ability to scale out, and a more distributed environment instead of having the usual centralized SQL database.

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DevOps Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

I would like them to improve the product training.

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BW

Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 2, 2018

I want to see HTML5. I want to get rid of JavaScript... we have a lot of issues with Java crashing when we're using vCenter. I obviously don't want that to happen with the vRealize Automation and Orchestrator side.

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Chief Architect at Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENS-Inc)

Sep 2, 2018

When you start to do a deployment where you need higher availability and more resiliency, then the complexity goes up drastically.

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Senior Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Sep 2, 2018

The solution is intuitive, but not necessarily user-friendly. In particular, it's the documentation. It's a lot of going-through-the-weeds types of scenarios. There is just an abundance of information, so it's a matter of understanding how the objects or the relationships exist, and then, obviously, being able to access that information and knowing how to make use of it.

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