D ATA S H E E T

VMWARE VREALIZE OPERATIONS

Intelligent Operations from Applications to Storage—from vSphere
and Hyper-V to Amazon Web Services and Physical Hardware

AT A GLANCE
VMware vRealize® Operations™ delivers
intelligent operations management
across physical, virtual, and cloud
infrastructure—from VMware vSphere®
and Hyper-V to Amazon Web Services.
It correlates data from applications
to storage in a unified, easy-to-use
management tool that provides control
over performance, capacity, and
configuration, with predictive analytics
driving proactive action, and policy-
based automation.

KEY BENEFITS
• Proactive identification and
remediation of emerging performance,
capacity, and configuration issues
• Comprehensive visibility across Intelligent Operations for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures

applications and infrastructure

in a single console VMware vRealize Operations Overview
• Automated capacity optimization Traditional operations management systems do not meet the requirements
and planning of today’s virtual and cloud infrastructure. They make IT too reactive because
they lack the intelligence to aggregate, correlate, and analyze metrics across
• Intelligent workload placement
and balancing to resolve resource
applications and infrastructure stacks.
contention and enable performance vRealize Operations is built on a scale-out, resilient platform designed to deliver
• Enforcement of standards for intelligent operational insights to simplify and automate management of
continuous compliance applications and infrastructure across virtual, physical and cloud environments—
• Open and extensible platform that from vSphere to Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more.
leverages existing investments, with With vRealize Operations, IT organizations of all sizes can improve performance,
third-party management packs for avoid disruption, and become more efficient with comprehensive visibility
Microsoft, SAP, and more
across applications and infrastructure in one place.

LEARN MORE
vRealize Operations delivers:
For more information or to purchase
• Performance and availability across the software defined data center
VMware products call 1-877-VMWARE
(SDDC) – Improve performance, avoid disruption and proactively manage
(outside North America, +1-650-427-
the SDDC with integrated performance and health monitoring from storage
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to applications with predictive analytics, Smart Alerts and guided remediation
products, or search online for an
authorized reseller. For detailed product • Optimize infrastructure utilization – Become more efficient by optimizing
specifications and system requirements, resource utilization including reclamation and right sizing, across cluster
refer to the VMware vRealize Operations workload placement, improved planning and forecasting and enforce IT
documentation at www.vmware.com/ and configuration standards
products/vrealize-operations. • Unified management across heterogeneous datacenters and multiple public
clouds – Simplify operations with comprehensive visibility in one place across
applications, physical infrastructure components and public clouds, supported
by an extensible platform utilizing third-party management packs

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INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS FROM APPLICATIONS TO STORAGE—FROM V SPHERE
AND HYPER-V TO AMAZON WEB SERVICES AND PHYSICAL HARDWARE

VREALIZE OPERATIONS
Key Features and Capabilities
Standalone product editions (Licensed per OSI) Standard Advanced Enterprise
Standalone product editions (Licensed per CPU) Standard Advanced
Included in a VMware suite (Licensed per CPU) VMware vSphere VMware vRealize Suite/ Only Application
with Operations vCloud Suite Standard, Monitoring Capabilities
Management™ Advanced and Enterprise of vRealize Operations
included in vRealize
Suite/vCloud Suite
Operations Platform
Scale-out platform
Single Sign On
Remote Collector HA
Automation framework (automated remediation)
Built-in high availability (automated failover of
platform nodes)
Visualization
Operations dashboards, views, and reports
Customizable dashboards and reports
Persona-based dashboards
Super metrics
Policy Management
Flexible operations policies and Operations Groups
Guided remediation
Role-based access control
Performance Monitoring and Analytics
vSphere health monitoring
Self-learning analytics with Dynamic Thresholds
Smart Alerts
Recommended Actions landing page
Root-cause analysis and recommendations
Monitoring of OS resources (CPU, disk, memory,
network)
Capacity Management
Capacity metering, trending, right-sizing, and
resource optimization
Create Custom datacenter
Custom capacity profile
Capacity models, what-if scenario
Commit to reserve capacity for model-drive analytics
Resource monitoring, planning and optimization
(applicable to any object)1
Workload Balancing
Move Action
Predictive DRS2
Rebalance Action3
OOTB dashboard for Workload planning and
balancing

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VMWARE VREALIZE OPERATIONS
INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS FROM APPLICATIONS TO STORAGE—FROM V SPHERE
AND HYPER-V TO AMAZON WEB SERVICES AND PHYSICAL HARDWARE

VREALIZE OPERATIONS
Key Features and Capabilities
Standalone product editions (Licensed per OSI) Standard Advanced Enterprise
Standalone product editions (Licensed per CPU) Standard Advanced
Included in a VMware suite (Licensed per CPU) VMware vSphere VMware vRealize Suite/ Only Application
with Operations vCloud Suite Standard, Monitoring Capabilities
Management™ Advanced and Enterprise of vRealize Operations
included in vRealize
Suite/vCloud Suite
Change, Confirguration, and Compliance Management
vSphere hardening
vSphere change, configuration, and regulatory
compliance
OS-level change, configuration, and patch
management
OS-level regulatory compliance-management packs
(PCI, HIPAA, SOX, etc.)*
Application Dependency Mapping (VIN)
Automated application discovery and relationship
visualization
Naming and versioning
Application Monitoring4
Application, middleware and database monitoring
VMware Management Packs
VMware vCenter®/ vRealize Log Insight™/
vRealize Automation™/ vRealize Business™/
vRealize Orchestrator™
Management Pack for Storage Devices5
Multi-Cloud (vCloud Air, AWS, OpenStack)
EPIC and Meditech Management Packs6
3rd Party Management Packs7
Compute/ Servers
Storage, Networking, Converged/Hyper-Converged
Other Hypervisors
Manager of Managers (MoM)/Connectors
Database/Application and Middleware

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VMWARE VREALIZE OPERATIONS
INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS FROM APPLICATIONS TO STORAGE—FROM V SPHERE
AND HYPER-V TO AMAZON WEB SERVICES AND PHYSICAL HARDWARE

VREALIZE OPERATIONS
Key Features and Capabilities
Standalone product editions (Licensed per OSI) Standard Advanced Enterprise
Standalone product editions (Licensed per CPU) Standard Advanced
Included in a VMware suite (Licensed per CPU) VMware vSphere VMware vRealize Suite/ Only Application
with Operations vCloud Suite Standard, Monitoring Capabilities
Management™ Advanced and Enterprise of vRealize Operations
included in vRealize
Suite/vCloud Suite
APIs
Basic APIs – available to all customers (Out-bound
Data/Alert, Extraction, Alert Definition/mgmt,
User Mgmt., etc.)
Advanced APIs – available to only ADV/ENT
customers (Resource/Data Addition, Report
Generation, etc.)
vRealize Operations Components
vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Infrastructure Navigator™ 8
vRealize Configuration Manager™ 9

1. Customize through Advanced APIs or available with associated Management Pack

2. Refer Product Documentation for scale limits
3. Requires DRS to be turned on
4. Application monitoring available as add-on to vRealize/vCloud Suite Standard and Advanced and included in vRealize Enterprise.
May also require additional purchase of application-specifi management packs
5. Restricted to VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) only for Standard edition
6. EPIC and Meditech are sold separately
7. Not included in vRealize Operations product packaging and download. May be sold separately
8. vRealize Infrastructure Navigator is not compatible with vSphere 6.5
9. Actual capabilities may vary by edition. Not included in vRealize Suite/vCloud Suite

Third-Party Management Packs - For a complete list of third-party Management Packs and extensions, please visit
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store.

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