Self-Driving IT Operations Management
VMware vRealize Operations delivers self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments in a unified, AI-powered platform.
Offering full-stack visibility from physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure – including VMs and containers – to the applications they support, vRealize Operations provides continuous performance optimization, efficient capacity and cost planning and management, app-aware intelligent remediation, and integrated compliance.
vRealize Operations is available on premises and SaaS.
Self-driving Operations for the Modern Cloud Era
Now delivered on-premises or as a service, vRealize Operations meets modern IT needs including multi-cloud and containers.
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Part of the NEW vRealize Cloud Universal
Explore our new SaaS management suite that combines automation, operations, and log analytics in a single license.
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For a limited time, get half vRealize Suite or vCloud Suite, including upgrades from vRealize Operations and vSphere.
Read the Blog for DetailsThe Gorilla Guide to Maximizing VMware vRealize Operations
Monitor and troubleshoot from infrastructure to applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, on-premises or SaaS.
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Extend vRealize Operations to monitor heterogeneous environments and make intelligent management decisions.
Learn MoreWhy Choose vRealize Operations
Proven solution from the market leader
Trust self-driving operations for your most demanding applications from the IDC market leader for four consecutive years.
Flexible consumption
Use vRealize Operations on premises or as a cloud service. Consume standalone, as part of vRealize Suite, or by subscription through vRealize Cloud Universal.
Holistic hybrid cloud monitoring and troubleshooting
Fix problems at the speed of light with AI-driven predictive analytics run on structured and unstructured data connected to a broad ecosystem of applications and infrastructure.
Native Console Built for the SDDC and vSphere
Enjoy native instrumentation, designed by the same engineering teams, which works together seamlessly with vSphere, VMware Cloud on AWS, and vSAN.
Unmatched operational agility
Get federated views across multiple and geographically dispersed data centers and across multiple vRealize Operations or vRealize Operations Cloud instances.
What’s New in vRealize Operations 8.2?
Continuous Performance Optimization
- Support for vRealize Automation 8.2
Integrated Compliance
- Support for Cloud Director services
Intelligent Remediation
- vRealize Network Insight app discovery
- Enhanced Kubernetes integration with support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Openshift
- Log-metric correlation; log dashboard widget
- Management pack enhancements – AWS, VxRail, NSX-T, Skyline, SNMP
- New Flowgate management pack for facility systems and IT data
- Metric correlation expansion
- Simplified policy management workflows
- Enhanced dashboard management; OOTB dashboard content improvements
Efficient Capacity and Cost Management
- Improvements in pricing & costing engine, including daily VM cost granularity
- Improvement in metering capabilities
- Pricing support for non-vRealize Automation workloads, including VMware Cloud on AWS
SaaS-Exclusives (only available with vRealize Operations Cloud)
- 15x faster data collection
- APM tool integration
- Management pack for VMware Horizon
More Information
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- Get up to 25% off SaaS with the Subscription Upgrade Program for vRealize Operations
- Learn more about vRealize Operations Cloud
A Day in the Life of IT Operations
Get out of firefighting mode and get ahead of the next crisis.
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Introducing the vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon
Gain end-to-end visibility for your Horizon VDI Environment and SDDC Infrastructure.
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Upgrade to vRealize Operations 8.2
Learn why and how to upgrade to the latest version. It's quick and easy.
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Demo: vRealize Operations Cloud
See how easy it is to deploy SaaS for improved agility and scalability.
Watch the Video (4:05)Customer Success
Thousands of customers across industries worldwide modernize their data centers to optimize for performance, availability, and cost. Discover how these customers streamline and automate IT operations across physical, virtual, and cloud environments with our self-driving IT operations management solutions.
Boost Operational Efficiency with Hybrid Cloud Operations
“VMware vRealize Operations Cloud works smoothly, without my influence. I get a message before an upgrade, then it happens automatically. A few minutes later, I get another saying everything is finished. I’m saving up to 10 hours a month on upgrades and troubleshooting. That’s success to me.”
– Stephan Wiechert, IT System Specialist, Borse Stuttgart
Game Changing Solution Transforms Automotive Business
"We saved about $1.5M with vRealize Operations helping us identify old hardware, appliances, and storage that’s not being used… what we can leverage, what we need to buy, and what we don’t need to buy."
– Emilio Salguera, Principal Technical Architect, Cox Automotive
Organizations Leading the Way with Self-Driving Operations
Learn from organizations that are using self-driving operations management to increase efficiency, save costs, and provide higher quality services. Leading organizations share their stories about how vRealize Operations delivers tangible, accelerated business value.
Spotlight
vRealize Operations improves application performance, prevents business disruptions, and makes IT more efficient.
Kubernetes Monitoring – What and Why
Kubernetes is the future. Read how the world of infrastructure monitoring needs to adapt to thrive in a modern application world.
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Kubernetes Monitoring – How
vRealize Operations is the only tool providing unified discovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting for VMs and containers. Learn how to get started.
Download NowvRealize Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation
Deploy vRealize Operations with VMware Cloud Foundation for a unified hybrid cloud control plane.
Read Solution BriefvRealize Operations with Native vSAN Integration
Build the foundation for modern infrastructure with vRealize Operations and vSAN.
vRealize Operations for VMware Cloud on AWS
Get a unified hybrid cloud management experience with vRealize Operations and VMware Cloud on AWS.
Use Cases for vRealize Operations
Continuous Performance Optimization
Assure hybrid cloud performance at minimal cost. Driven by operational and business intent, real-time predictive analytics and AI drive actions to automatically balance workloads and proactively avoid contention. Automate workload balancing and placement to VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, or VMware Cloud on AWS.
Efficient Capacity and Cost Management
Reduce cost and improve efficiency with real-time, ML-based capacity and cost analytics, delivering optimal consolidation and proactive planning. Using a real-time, forward-looking capacility analytics engine, vRealize Operations can predict future demand and provide actionable recommendations that include reclamation, procurement, and cloud migration planning options.
Intelligent Remediation
Predict, prevent, and troubleshoot faster with actionable insights correlating metrics and logs with unified visibility from applications to infrastructure. Streamline and centralize IT operations with native integrations with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere 7 with Tanzu, vSAN, VMware Cloud on AWS, and multiple public clouds, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Integrated Compliance
Reduce risk and enforce IT regulatory standards for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud on AWS with integrated compliance and automated drift remediation. Ensure your environment’s adherence to common requirements with six out-of-the-box compliance templates—including those for PCI, HIPAA, or SOX—or create your own custom templates.
Getting Started
Learn how maximize the value of IT infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Learn more about vRealize Operations Cloud for hands-off and hassle-free production operations.
Learn how to achieve 303% ROI with a payback period in under three months.
For a complete feature-level version comparison, please see the Self-Driving Operations Datasheet.
1May require VMware or third-party management packs. Review the full catalog of vRealize Operations management packs, or see what comes in our vRealize True Visibility Suite management packs.
Pricing
vRealize Operations is available in both conventional on-prem software licensing and as a service. In both cases it can be purchased standalone or bundled with various VMware suites. Refer to the edition comparison table to understand the different product editions. There are four licensing models.
- Portable licensing units: This is the licensing metric for vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.
- Per processor with unlimited VMs: This is the licensing metric for the following standalone products: vRealize Operations Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions and vRealize Log Insight.
- Per virtual machine or operating system instance: This is the licensing metric for the following standalone products: vRealize Operations Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions and vRealize Log Insight.
- Software as a service (SaaS): Visit the vRealize Operations Cloud webpage at https://cloud.vmware.com/vrealize-operations-cloud.
Questions? Contact a vRealize sales expert at (877) 524-2555 or e-mail us. Use the Partner Locator to find a reseller near you.
FAQ
How does vRealize Operations drive capacity and cost management?
VMware vRealize Operations delivers self-driving operations from apps to infrastructure to optimize, plan, and scale VMware Cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments while unifying public cloud monitoring. See the vRealize Operations Datasheet to learn more.
What are the cost savings and business benefits I can achieve with vRealize Operations?
According to a Forrester report, vRealize Operations led to improved visibility, optimized performance and capacity, and faster remediation for enterprises that deployed it. These organizations experienced a total ROI of 303 percent, including:
- 20 percent reduction in hardware costs
- 50 percent reduction in database management license costs over a three-year period
- 93 percent reduction in unplanned downtime
- 30 percent improvement in productivity
Use our ROI estimation calculator to estimate the potential ROI for your organization.
What are the software and hardware requirements for running vRealize Operations?
For all configuration requirements, please visit vRealize Operations technical documentation.
How can I try out vRealize Operations?
The vRealize Operations Hands-on Lab is a free evaluation that allows you to test-drive the full technical capabilities of vRealize Operations from your browser, with no installation required.
Where can I find training and documentation for vRealize Operations?
Training courses in classroom, live online, and self-paced on-demand formats, as well as free eLearning courses, are available in VMware Education. A variety of courses are available for vRealize Operations, enabling you to take advantage of all its features and functions and get the most out of your vRealize environment.
Product documentation for vRealize Operations is available in VMware Docs.