VMware Aria Suite is available in standard, advanced, and enterprise editions. A VMware Aria Suite edition contains individual products with different product editions and different capabilities.
The standard, advanced, and enterprise editions of VMware Aria Suite each provide a different set of features, outlined in the following table.
vRealize Business for Cloud was available as Standard and Advanced editions in VMware Aria Suite 2018. In VMware Aria Suite 2019, the hybrid cloud costing capabilities that include on-premises SDDC deployments and VMware Cloud on AWS, are now included in VMware Aria Operations, as Advanced and Enterprise editions. VMware announced the End of Availability (EOA) of VMware Business for Cloud, effective January 29th, 2021. Hence, VMware Business for Cloud is no longer available for VMware Aria Suite 2019. For more information, refer to KB 81827.
VMware Aria Suite Product |
VMware Aria Suite Capability |
Standard Edition |
Advanced Edition |
Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VMware Aria Operations (includes VMware Aria Operations for Logs) |
Log analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Operations platform |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Visualization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Policy management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Performance monitoring and analytics |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Capacity management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Workload balancing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Change, configuration, and compliance management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Application dependency mapping |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Application monitoring |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
vRealize Business for Cloud |
Automatic virtual infrastructure metering, costing, and pricing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Automatic service catalog pricing, integrated with vRealize Automation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Virtual infrastructure consumption analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Exportable data set that allows automatic reporting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Public cloud and virtualization infrastructure cost comparison |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Public cloud costing, consumption analysis, and pricing |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Role-based showback in virtual infrastructure and public cloud |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Data center optimization, integrated with VMware Aria Operations |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Quantifying virtual infrastructure reclamation opportunities, integrated with VMware Aria Operations |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Custom reporting, visual charts, and API for automatic data extraction |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
VMware Aria Automation |
Infrastructure as a Service |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Unified Service Catalog |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Self-service Provisioning |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Governance and Compliance Policies |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Resource lifecycle management (Day 2 Operations) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Extensibility |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Xaas |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Hybrid Cloud (VMware Cloud on AWS) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multi-Cloud capabilities, including cloud agnostics blueprints |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Code stream for DevOps |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Application provisioning and management |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Kubernetes Support |
No |
No |
Yes |
VMware Aria Suite Products
VMware Aria Suite includes certain products or a subset of these products, depending on the VMware Aria Suite edition you purchase.
Product Name |
Description |
|---|---|
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle |
Automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire VMware Aria Suite, enabling a simplified operational experience. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle automates lifecycle management with a single pane of glass, freeing customer resources to focus on business-critical initiatives, while improving time to value, reliability, and consistency. |
VMware Aria Operations |
Collects performance data from each object at every level of your virtual environment, from individual virtual machines and disk drives to entire clusters and data centers. It stores and analyzes the data, and uses that analysis to provide real-time information about problems, or potential problems, anywhere in your virtual environment. |
VMware Aria Operations for Logs |
Provides scalable log aggregation and indexing for VMware Aria Suite, including all editions of vSphere, with real-time search and analytics capabilities. Log Insight collects, imports, and analyzes logs to provide real-time answers to problems related to systems, services, and applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. |
VMware Aria Automation |
Helps deploy and provision business-relevant cloud services across private and public clouds, physical infrastructure, hypervisors, and public cloud providers. VMware Aria Automation Enterprise includes VMware Aria Automation Application Services. |
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator |
Simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware Aria Suite products to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools, and processes. |
VMware Aria Suite Editions and Their Product Editions
Certain product editions are available in the standard, advanced, and enterprise edition of VMware Aria Suite.
VMware Aria Suite Product Edition |
VMware Aria Suite Standard Edition |
VMware Aria Suite Advanced Edition |
VMware Aria Suite Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
VMware VMware Aria Automation Advanced Edition |
No |
Yes |
No |
VMware VMware Aria Automation Enterprise Edition |
No |
No |
Yes |
VMware Aria Automation Config |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
VMware Aria Automation Config for Secure Hosts |
No |
No |
No |
VMware Aria Operations for Integrations (Advanced) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
VMware Aria Operations for Integrations Application Monitoring |
No |
No |
Yes |
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Standard Edition |
Yes |
No |
No |
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Advanced Edition |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
VMware VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
VMware VMware Aria Operations for Logs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
