VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth vs vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] comparison

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VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Additionally, 94% of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (10th), Cloud Cost Management (4th)

vRealize Business for Cloud...

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Sasikiran Sakalabattina

Sr Infrastructure engineer at TechMahindra

Centralized dashboards have optimized multi-cloud costs and improved financial governance

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is a powerful cloud management platform, but there are areas for improvement. I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions. Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays. More customized dashboards and report templates would help teams tailor their needs better. Kubernetes cost visibility could be more granular for centralized workloads. Integration with ITSM and automation tools such as ServiceNow and Ansible could be enhanced. Simplifying initial onboarding and policy configuration would also improve the experience for new users. These enhancements would make the platform even more efficient for enterprise cloud operations. This tool is a mature and relevant cloud management platform with several areas that could be enhanced. I would prefer to see more advanced AI capabilities providing predictive insights and automated remediation for common optimization tasks. Better, faster synchronization of cloud billing and utilization data would enable near real-time cost monitoring. I want more customizable dashboards and executive reports tailored for different stakeholders such as FinOps, infrastructure, and management teams. Improving Kubernetes container cost visibility at the pod level is also necessary. I would prefer to see stronger AI-driven automation, faster real-time cost updates, more customizable dashboards, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, enhanced DevOps integrations, and a simpler onboarding process as areas needing improvement. These enhancements would further increase operational efficiency and make the platform more valuable for enterprise cloud management.

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ThomasMeyer

Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig

Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management

The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.

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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

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth has positively impacted my organization by optimizing cloud costs and helping platform teams make data-driven decisions while ensuring compliance."

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

"The dashboard helps to streamline cloud management practices, which is a good thing."

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth has helped me achieve twenty to thirty percent cloud cost optimization and save thirty to forty percent of the time."

"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."

"There are two major reasons we are very interested in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth: First, the observability we can build into VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth allows us to determine what is happening before any service fails, and we are positioned to fix things preventively."

"I appreciate the GUI interface of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, and it is very user-friendly."

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

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"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."

"The features I find most valuable about this solution is it helps us to automate all the provisioning activities on the platform."

"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."

"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."

"The solution's cost management is very good."

"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."

"Overall, this is a good solution and we have not had any problems, but I can't say that it is perfect because of the issues with the documentation and knowledge base."

"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."

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Cons

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

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

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

"Setup costs are very expensive."

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting so that we can better act on that."

"CloudHealth doesn't have that capability; they can't reach down to that level right now."

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

"The Perspectives feature could be better. I would like to have more automation and flexibility to put in data and react to a certain event."

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"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."

"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."

"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."

"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."

"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."

"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support, like some training videos."

"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."

"At the moment, in the POC, we have a very huge issue because you definitely have to implement a vSphere cluster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"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."

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

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."

"The pricing model is complicated."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudHealth?

Setup costs are very expensive.

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

One of the things we struggle with today is the integration between VMWare and our operating systems. That is where the flaws happen. We are a Red Hat shop. The integration between both needs to be...

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What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is used for our complete e-commerce platform. We predominantly use VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth for high availability systems. We do not use it for cost considerations because ...

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Also Known As

Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth

VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel

Overview

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.

Broadcom

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

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

Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis

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