This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across multi-cloud environments, including reducing waste, optimizing spend, and driving accountability.
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Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.
What needs improvement?
I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs to be improved from my perspective. The pricing of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth could be better, but for the service being provided, I believe the price is fair.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability and reliability of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are good because this solution makes it very easy to optimize costs. All companies want to optimize costs when using cloud solutions. It is easy to get lost on cost when using cloud services because some companies acquire things they do not need and pay for them unnecessarily. With VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, I can help optimize services and identify the pain points where cost reduction is necessary. Regarding accountability, it is also great.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is great because all components are very user-friendly, and the open-source code is also user-friendly. The scalability is good. The backbone of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is scalability; it is very easy to scale. It is very easy to adapt.
How are customer service and support?
I do not often communicate with the technical support of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth because I have never needed to call them.
I have used the official documentation, guides, and manuals for this tool for examples involving installation and customization. Overall, the documentation is good. They have all the acronyms and glossary. It is very interactive, with examples on how you can do this or that, and there are the do's and the don'ts.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not use a different solution for the same use cases before VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. We were using other kinds of cloud products, but they were very different from VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth.
How was the initial setup?
I did not participate in the initial setup of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. My company was very happy using this, and they did not buy another solution, so I believe they have seen benefits using this VMWare solution.
It is difficult for me to share examples of the return on investment I have noticed because this is a management department issue. They do not share those kinds of things with the employees; otherwise, the employees will ask for more money. I do not have those records.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When trying to choose a product for these use cases, I was only looking at VMware because I am used to using VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, and I do not know much about other vendors. I prefer this one.
What other advice do I have?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very experienced on that point.
The metrics used to measure the effectiveness of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's resource optimization features are programmatic because I am a developer, and we do some calculations according to the requirements. With those requirements, we can create a programmatic enablement to calculate the metrics. It is a very complex procedure to explain in a phone call.
Some companies may not be capable of affording this product. I would rate this review a 7.
Provides good stability and has a simple setup process
What is most valuable?
The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.
What needs improvement?
There could be flexibility in pricing for the product. They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size. It will help us get the right cost. Additionally, there could be integration with different cloud providers so developers can utilize diverse servers.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product's stability is extremely good.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support services need improvement.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process is simple.
What other advice do I have?
I rate VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth an eight out of ten.
A good observability tool for costs in the cloud
What do you like best about the product?
VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth helps us understand the cloud costs of our customers with a deep drill down to each service, linked account, etc. It also helps us visualize the data using dashboards and view some cost savings recommendations
What do you dislike about the product?
In my opinion, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is lacking a central view of cost savings recommendations for many services. Although there are recommendations for commitments and a few others, there is no central location to view all recommendations (for example: EIPs that are not assigned to any instance) and this makes it a bit harder to understand how to save on costs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is solving the problem of having a centralized view for all of our (and our customers) cloud costs with an option to filter and visualize the data in many ways.
Great cloud platform
What do you like best about the product?
"All of our operations have been streamlined and automated by CloudHealth. We are able to easily create custom policies given the fact that CloudHealth reduces risk and expedites our decision-making process. The detailed and accurate visibility also allows continuous cloud usage monitoring and performance analysis, leading to more precise capacity planning and better resource utilization for our organization. We can simply monitor performance with CloudHealth and compare it to our provisioned capacity, allowing us to maximize asset value."
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability to personalize the fast bar on the left-hand side to make it simpler to go to sites I usually visit would be my main complaint about the app, if I had to select just one issue. The screen periodically lags for a few seconds, and it has previously stalled on me for a while. I've always had network and performance issues. In fact, it is the most useful tool I have ever used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because misconfigurations can be found using security rules and customized policies, loudHealth offers real-time visibility into the security posture of our cloud. Additionally, the platform gives me the ability to prioritize concerns based on numerical risk levels and offers visual context for swiftly analyzing and fixing issues. I appreciate that CloudHealth creates reports and tables that provide a fantastic visual picture of cloud consumption trends and assist in locating any areas where cloud usage charges are exorbitant.
Solution to keep a watch on cloud costs
What do you like best about the product?
Easy of use. Easy to configure for custom use cases. Gives visibility into real time costs. This gives overall business process visibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations with certain cloud operators
- custom use case tracking like
- custom use case tracking like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Visibility of cloud infrastructure
- Costs of instances
- cloud cost management
- Costs of instances
- cloud cost management
A great way to identify the trends in, and improve, your team's cloud usage!
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the reports that Cloud Health generates and the tables it creates, which provide a very good visual for the trends in cloud usage and helps identify any areas where the cloud usage costs might be excessive. I also appreciate the suggestions that the platform provides for improving resource efficency!
What do you dislike about the product?
I would've loved to see an option for exporting the graphical reports CloudHealth creates as Microsoft Office files. That would've helped tremendously in official meetings/presentations. I also find the notifications icon and settings hard to manipulate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organization was using CloudHealth for basic analysis and identifying areas where costs could be reduced. To that we found CloudHealth's recommendations useful in helping us establish better governance policies for our cloud usage.
Satisfied User of Cloud Health
What do you like best about the product?
I like that is helps my organization to optimize costs and to keep budgeting proposals and documentation organized. Additionally it allows for collaboration among colleagues in different departments and provides a shared output goal.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I struggle to master the user interface but I think this could be helped through a tutorial or some other way of learning more about how to best use the services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving our key organizational problems of budget optimization and creating shared goals for everyone at the organization. Additionally, CloudHealth allows us to innovate and be more creative in creating plans and goals for inter-departmental collaboration.
Great platform, intuitive, and easy to use built by VMware
What do you like best about the product?
Very intuitive and easy to use software for data optimization and management. The outputs, graphs, and graphics are super clear, clean and easy to use, which is expected from an application that came out of VMware. Also has meaningful capabilities (some of which I don't even use but know about!) that is great for a variety of organizations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Connectivity. With other VMware products, I've always had connectivity/speed issues and its the same unfortunate case here as well. Sometimes the screen will lag for a few seconds and have had it freeze on me for a minute or two before.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use of CloudHealth mainly for financial management and operations, looking to see revenue/sales and costs trends over time and over product segment. Breakdowns and detail cost structure analyses are also super helpful as well, as we need a P&L to run our company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider breadth and depth of necessary functions and if you need real-time information. Consider potential outputs you may want - does everything need to be in a pretty graph, or is a Excel-style output fine?
Managing cloud instances made easy
What do you like best about the product?
- Really useful to manage the instances that add operational costs
- Makes it easy with management of these cloud instances to identify cost reductions/savings opportunities
- Best part is on the portal where you can check the health as well as VM disk space
- Makes it easy with management of these cloud instances to identify cost reductions/savings opportunities
- Best part is on the portal where you can check the health as well as VM disk space
What do you dislike about the product?
- Reporting is not that great. Customizable reports is something Cloudhealth needs to improve
- It’s still not that scalable when deployed in the GCP infrastructure
- It’s still not that scalable when deployed in the GCP infrastructure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest use case for us and my team was to monitor the current slot utilization for the cloud instances that process data and process queries. It was always challenging to know the current / real-time health of the instances. Cloud health has given that visibility.
Make your cloud healthy and more advanced through CloudHealth
What do you like best about the product?
We can easily install any light software on this cloud at any instance. it is very reliable and friendly to use. It keeps in account the entire health of VMs on which this agent is installed. Cloud health never bound; instead it allows us to take a look on our VMs such as Disk space and Disk usage. It is an amazing tool about generating infrastructure reports after going through its security feature which detects unwanted and odd circumstance hence allowing us to invent properly about fixing the cause. It helps in easy migration from other clouds to cloud health. It is a very cost effective solution which helps you in publishing budget reporting. Its cloud security system helps us to continue threat detection and their management. It has great automation data accuracy.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool is not linked with any other application like Web apps, services Bus or Traffic managers also I really want them to work on PaaS part of cloud. Moreover I have faced some issues in reporting which are complex to manage and run.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped in visualizing and optimizing of our cloud. Not only this, but now it can automate our clouds too. It has showed us a path how to analyze data by integrating with such services which has eventually helped us in accessing the main hub of robust data. It has aligned our business with improves processes and agility and upgrade of processes in terms of security .now it is quite easy for us to control our data and reduced the complexity which we were facing. It has given us ease in term of Optimizing and successfully migrating of our infrastructure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a quality controlled and cost effective solution which gives you your cloud visibility, your cloud security and a very effective governance and policy management cloud for your system. It is surely recommended by me.
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