VMware vRealize Suite is a cloud management solution. It integrates VMware vRealize Cloud Management products that together provide automation, operations, log analytics, and lifecycle management on-premises.
VMware vCloud Suite is an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and management solution. It combines all the products in vRealize Suite and adds vSphere, the industry leading compute virtualization platform.
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Provide DevOps-based infrastructure delivery with infrastructure as code, infrastructure pipelines, GitOps, release automation, and pipeline as code.
Automate management of IT services across lifecycle with approval policies, provisioning through APIs, declarative state enforcement, workflow orchestration, day 2 automation, and auto-remediation.
Continuously optimize performance, capacity, cost along with app-aware intelligent remediation and integrated compliance, from apps to infrastructure across clouds.
Improve productivity of VI admins with application-focused management and intrinsic security when you add vSphere to vRealize Suite. Accelerate innovation across AI/ML, database and analytics and time-critical applications.
Increase agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation.
Optimize, plan and scale SDDC and cloud deployments with self-driving operations.
Improve troubleshooting and security with centralized log management, visibility and analytics.
Accelerate deployment and upgrades, enhance environment stability and improve end user productivity.
vCloud Suite combines the on-premises products included in vRealize Suite with integrated vSphere server virtualization. Now you can improve productivity of VI admins with application-focused management and intrinsic security.
Current vSphere users can accelerate cloud transformation by upgrading to vCloud Suite.
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”We chose VMware because they have the most complete products for software-defined data center whether its for NSX to protect our network with distributed firewall and micro segmentation to vRealize Suite which helps us automate our services within our data center.”
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”What we were trying to get out of NSX was improve security, micro-segmentation, multi-tenancy so the software-defined data center components. It gives us the ability to meet compliance in a much easier, streamlined way.”
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Supports self-driving operations use cases to improve application performance and availability via predictive analytics and smart alerts.
Enables infrastructure provisioning and management with hybrid cloud automation and governance.
Supports application provisioning and management with multi-cloud automation and governance.
Get an overview of licensing, pricing, and packaging for vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite editions.
A portable license unit (PLU) gives you the flexibility to manage workloads regardless of whether they are on vSphere on premises, third-party hypervisors, physical servers or supported public clouds. There is no license switching or conversion required.
No, vRealize Suite is a single, integrated solution with a single license that does not break down into individual licenses for each component. Upgrades are available between vRealize Suite editions.
The vRealize Suite Hands-on Lab and vCloud Suite Hands-on Lab are free evaluations that allow you to test-drive their full technical capabilities from your browser, with no installation required.
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 each component of vRealize Suite and for vSphere (included in vCloud Suite), enabling you to take advantage of all features and functions and get the most out of your vRealize environment.
Product documentation for vRealize Suite and vSphere is available in VMware Docs.
vRealize Suite is shipped as a vApp and will run on any hardware infrastructure that the VMware hypervisor platform (vSphere) can run on. For more information, see the VMware Compatibility Guide .
According to a Forrester report , vRealize Operations led to improved visibility, performance and capacity optimization, and faster remediation for enterprises that deployed it. These organizations experienced:
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vCloud Suite helps customers plan, manage, scale and automate infrastructure and application components across the SDDC and multi-cloud environments. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, vRealize Operations (within vCloud Suite) provides continuous performance optimization and proactive capacity management.
Learn more about the capabilities of vCloud Suite and what they mean for your business in this solution overview .