Cloud Management Platforms comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + Extensive out-of-the-box reporting and automation
  • + Among the best at Chargeback
  • + Resource planning and rightsizing analysis
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  • + Among the best at Security
  • + Deep VMware integration
  • + Among the best at User Self-Service
Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
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  • - Complex product structure & implementation
  • - Average Governance support
  • - Average IT Automation features
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Maturity
Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
Incorporated in 2011 and deployed in multiple large enterprise production envrionments.
VMware was founded in 1998. The products in vRealize Suite arise from different acquisitions. vRealize Automation comes from Dynamic Ops (acq 2012), vRealize Operations comes from Integrien (acq 2011) and vRealize Orchestrator comes from Dunes (2007)
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Content Creator
Embotics
Director of Marketing - Ron Harnik
WhatMatrix - Viktor
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
The Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform takes a fundamentally different approach to cloud management. Scalr applies policies at the organization level, rather than at the application level. For an enterprise with multiple departments or lines of business, the central IT unit can establish levels of policy-based guardrails for each department. Those departments can then operate with greater autonomy and establish any unique policy requirements on their own for their respective teams._x000D_
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vRealize Suite Advanced is a CMP for private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Versions in this comparison are vRealize Automation & Orchestrator 7.2, Operations 6.4 and vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2
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Website
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  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
Scalr can be run on-premise on a private or public cloud, or delivered as SaaS.
The product runs locally
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
Scalr can operate with or without the Scalrizr Agent. Using the agent allows for greater orchestration and monitoring capabilites.
An agent is required for some scenarios.
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
Scalr supports a variety of out-of-box database automation options as well cloud services
MS SQL Server 2012 or newer, embedded PostgreSQL database(s) and embedded Gemfire database(s).
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited. Admins can be divided across levels of trust and resposibilites.
Unlimited
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited.
Unlimited
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
Licensed by amount of managed end-points.
Per CPU or per Operating System Instance (OSI)
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Standalone platform.
vRealize Suite is a vendor-agnostic Cloud Management Platform supporting both on-premises as cloud infrastructures
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
24x7 support - additional support levels are available.
Both 5x12 and 24x7 support are available
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Proffesional services, kick-starts, and trainings available.
Professional services are available through VMware PSO or VMware Solution Provider Partners
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
vSphere 5.0 & above supported
Supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Supported via OpenStack
Supported
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Supported on Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka
Supported
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other
KVM and Xen Supported
Compatible with Citrix XenServer 6.2, RHEV Manager 3.1 and RHEV KVM 3.1
  Public Cloud Support  
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Amazon Web Services
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Google Cloud Platform
Cost comparisons only
Supported
Not supported
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IBM Bluemix Cloud
Support for VMware on IBM Cloud
Supported (as private implementation)
Supported
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Not Supported
Not supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
Rackspace, HP helion
vCloud Air, Rackspace
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supports Docker
Supported
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Supports Kubernetes
Possible but not directly integrated
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Other
Scripted Support
Orchestration options available for CoreOS, Swarm and Mesos.
Supported
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported for vSphere and vCloud Air
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported for vCloud Air
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported for vSphere
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Yes
Through vSphere
  Migration  
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
Supported
Supported
Not supported
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  Administration  
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Multi-tenant support
Supported
Yes. Users can be managed locally or authenticated through LDAP/SAML.
Supported
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
Extensive API support
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  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Native support
Supported, free plugin available via Chef
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Puppet
Supported
Supported
Supported, free plugin available via Puppet. Paid plugin also available.
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Ansible
Supported
Support for Ansible Tower
Only supported via paid plugin
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SaltStack
Supported
Some integration available
Supported, free plugin available via Saltstack
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Yes
Not supported
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supports Cloud SDN eg AWS APCs and limited private eg VMware
VMware NSX is fully supported
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
Yes
Public cloud networks are visible in vRealize Automation. Network creation/deletion is possible through vRealize Orchestrator.
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Yes
Yes, through vRealize Orchestrator
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Yes
Yes, through the event broker and vRealize Orchestrator
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Yes
Yes, through vRealize Orchestrator
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Supported, through a vRealize Orchestrator plugins
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Webhooks
Supported
Yes
Not supported
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Supported, available (both free and paid) on marketplace.vmware.com
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CMDB integration
Supported
Yes - Scalr integrates with tools such as ServiceNow and Remedy through the Webhook system
Supported
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Configuration tags
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
Planned
Not supported
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Planned
Not supported
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Planned
Limited, through vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced
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Runtime policies
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Yes - via a connector such as OpenStack
Limited
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Depends on the platform
Limited, specific option through vRealize Operations is available
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Yes
Supported, using leases
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
Limited
Supported, using vRealize Operations
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HA/DR features
Supported
Hosted apps
Supported
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Service Catalog
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Only via partners.
Supported
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
Yes
Supported, through vRealize Application Services
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Approval workflow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
Yes
Supported
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Yes
Limited, scale up/down on different platforms can be configured in a blueprint
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
Yes
Supported
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
Supported
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Cost allocation
Supported
Yes
Supported
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User-defined rates
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Multiple currency support
Supported
No
Multiple currencies are supported, but only one can be selected
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
Through Webhooks and tagging.
Limited
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
On initial import
Supported
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Yes, as part of general logging
Supported
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
Supported
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Role-based access controls
Supported
Yes
Supported
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User-defined groups
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Yes
Supported
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LDAP support
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Key vaulting
Supported
Supported
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Support for single signon
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
General logging
Supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Integration available through Webhooks and orchestration engine
Supported
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Yes
Supported through vRealize Codestream (additional license required) or community supported workflows.
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Supported through vRealize Codestream (additional license required) or community supported workflows.
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other
Supported
Scalr can work with any code repo.
Supported through vRealize Orchestrator or vRealize Code Stream (Code Stream requires an extra license)
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Yes
Supported through vRealize Codestream (additional license required).
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
No
Supported
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
Yes
Supported
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
Supported
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Snapshotting
Supported
Yes, for DB and storage
Supported
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Yes
Supported

Matrix Score

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  • Embotics
  • Scalr
  • VMware
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  • 4 th
  • 8 th
  • 5 th
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