vRealize Suite is available in standard, advanced, and enterprise editions. A vRealize Suite edition contains individual products with different product editions and different capabilities.
The standard, advanced, and enterprise editions of
vRealize Suite each provide a different set of features, outlined in the following table.
Note: vRealize Business for Cloud was available as Standard and Advanced editions in vRealize Suite 2018. In vRealize Suite 2019, the hybrid cloud costing capabilities that include on-premises SDDC deployments and VMware Cloud on AWS, are now included in vRealize Operations, as Advanced and Enterprise editions. VMware announced the End of Availability (EOA) of VMware VMware Business for Cloud, effective January 29th, 2021. Hence, VMware Business for Cloud is no longer available for vRealize Suite 2019. For more information, refer to KB
81827.
| vRealize Suite Product | vRealize Suite Capability | Standard Edition | Advanced Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vRealize Operations Manager (includes vRealize Log Insight) | 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 vRealize Operations Manager | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Quantifying virtual infrastructure reclamation opportunities, integrated with vRealize Operations Manager | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Custom reporting, visual charts, and API for automatic data extraction | No | Yes | Yes | |
| vRealize 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 | |
| Mulit-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 |
vRealize Suite Products
VMware vRealize Suite includes certain products or a subset of these products, depending on the vRealize Suite edition you purchase.
| Product Name | Description |
|---|---|
| vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager | Automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire vRealize Suite, enabling a simplified operational experience. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 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. |
| vRealize Operations Manager | 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. |
| vRealize Log Insight | Provides scalable log aggregation and indexing for vRealize 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. |
| vRealize Automation | Helps deploy and provision business-relevant cloud services across private and public clouds, physical infrastructure, hypervisors, and public cloud providers. vRealize Automation Enterprise includes vRealize Automation Application Services. |
| vRealize Orchestrator | Simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with vRealize Suite products to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools, and processes. |
| vRealize Business for Cloud | Provides information about financial aspects of your cloud infrastructure and lets you optimize and improve these operations. |
vRealize Suite Editions and Their Product Editions
Certain product editions are available in the standard, advanced, and enterprise edition of vRealize Suite.
| vRealize Product Edition | vRealize Suite Standard Edition | vRealize Suite Advanced Edition | vRealize Suite Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| VMware vRealize Automation Advanced Edition | No | Yes | No |
| VMware vRealize Automation Enterprise Edition | No | No | Yes |
| VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config | No | Yes | Yes |
| VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack SecOps | No | No | No |
| VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite (Advanced) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite 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 vRealize Orchestrator | No | Yes | Yes |
| VMware vRealize Log Insight | Yes | Yes | Yes |
