# VMware Aria Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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VMware Aria

4.9 (18)

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of VMware Aria

Ease of use

4.4

Customer Service

4.7

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Kenidra S.  
Customer Service Representative  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Thumbs Up! "

December 18, 2025

5.0

VMware Aria is very easy to use! While working in a Call Center at TSD Global. I was able to maneuver the system correctly.

Pros

I was able to dial the customers and hear them clearly. I was also able to pull up the customers accounts and help them with their concerns.

Cons

At first, I couldn't login with my credentials. My supervisor had to get them reset so that I could access the system.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Engineer  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "A good managing tool for VMWare"

February 6, 2025

5.0

Pros

AWS Systems Manager is a brilliant tool for managing IT operations for VMWare products.

Cons

AWS Systems Manager is quite expensive to deploy

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JH

Julio H.  
It intern  
Entertainment  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great for Virtual Machine Management and Testing"

January 24, 2025

4.0

A reliable tool for testing software compatibility and centralizing virtual machine management efficiently.

Pros

It’s excellent for creating multiple virtual machines and running various software tests on the same physical computer.

Cons

Managing and troubleshooting virtual machine issues were getting complex as usage scales across teams.

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Gerson M.  
IT Consultant  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Control Control Control"

January 16, 2018

5.0

Built on VMware technology. Built-in, out-of-the-box compliance toolkits developed by VMware's Center.

Pros

vCenter Configuration Manager was born, raised and integrated with vSphere. For that reason delivers impressive capabilities that support hardening the VMware Infrastructure. The family of products that vCenter Configuration Manager support are VMware ESX, ESXi, vCenter, vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Networking and Security. Patchin VM templates and offline VMs is also possible using this product. vCenter Configuration Manager supports configuration management across virtual and physical servers and more.. across VMware Infrastructure and across multiple OS including Windows, Linux and Windows.

Cons

nothing bad, if you want the best compatibility with VMware products, this is it. There are other HyperVisor platforms out there, however, this software is native for VMWare, that counts.

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JN

Jayan N.  
AVP IT  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy Orchestrator "

August 5, 2022

5.0

We had a great experience and benefited after implementing vRealize Orchestrator, and our Administrators find it very useful to carry out there day to day work, Reporting, alert, and automation work fabulously. It has met our business needs.

Pros

Vm Administrator finds it easy to learn this tool and start their work on day one.

Cons

Nothing specific since our infra is entirely on VMware.

Reason for choosing VMware Aria

We have been using VMWARE for more than a decade our entire Infra is on Vmware so it's our natural choice.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Especialista de administracion de plataforma TI  
Banking  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "VMWare experience in my company"

October 30, 2018

4.0

in general terms it is a very useful tool to virtualize most of the services we use in our company.

Pros

what I liked most about VMWare is the ease when it comes to managing and creating virtual machines

Cons

What I like the least is the slowness in some processes and the consumption of resources.

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Andrea N.  
System Specialist  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A really easy and professionals tool for manage for parts of a virtual environment."

February 27, 2018

5.0

Pros

Easy manage of physical and virtual environment; you can move virtual machine easily from a physical host to another and will be easy lan maintenance because VmWare update will advise about type of update, if will need reboot of Vm of host ...

Cons

I think that is really complete, what could be great is have a monitoring tool internally, a tool like Nagios for example.

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Marc L.  
Senior Systems Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "VMware integrated network monitoring"

July 17, 2019

5.0

Pros

Works well with vSphere, helps with monitor all vSphere related items.

Cons

Setup complexity and cost, there are some cheaper/easier products out there.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Lead Network Specialist  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easily Allowed Me To Setup Configurations for Multiple Systems Simultaneously"

April 10, 2018

5.0

Pros

Easy to use. vCenter Config Manager allows you to easily create configuration profiles for deployments of virtual machines. Due to its simplicity it allows me to create multiple machines quickly without the need to touch each machine individually to configure.

Cons

At first glance it can be kind of intimidating; you may have to reference some KB articles depending on the type machines that you are wanting to eventually deploy.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Analista de Ingeniería  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Secure configurations with vCenter Configuration Manager"

October 30, 2018

5.0

This tool has given me added value to my experience as a professional within the company, it has been possible to improve the execution of virtualization that allows me to centrally manage multiple servers and virtual machines.

Pros

It stores the configuration data configurations of different systems, security and assets of each one independently, besides this it creates a centralized database of information, in this way you can optimize the processes in the company.

Cons

The maximum number of vCenter servers that can interconnect with each other.

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PM

Peter M.  
Application Developer  
Information Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Powerful and easy to use"

February 1, 2019

5.0

Pros

Very useful for managing large numbers of virtual machines on multiple ESXI hosts. Vcenter is surprisingly easy to use for such a powerful piece of software, it's interface is well designed and user friendly.

Cons

The only small con I have found is that the documentation available online is sometimes slightly lacking in some specific areas, but it's mostly good

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AP

Alejandro P.  
IT Planning  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Necesarry if you need to built a cloud "

October 4, 2021

5.0

We are satisficed because with vRA we could implement an excellent private cloud in the company and we reduced the times that before take to setup a server and be more agile at the demand of the business

Pros

Ones you have ready the templates and the designs of the workflow help you a lot to be more efference and respond quit to the demand of the business or the internal customers. Other pro, is that you can find a lot information in the VMware website or in other websites to get refence of how do templates or compare best practices

Cons

In the beginning is complicate design the workflows specially with the interactions in the workflow so the best is design well with the help of the VMware engineers and pay for some hours to help you in the implementations

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MT

Michael T.  
Network Administrator II  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent Configuration Tools, with standard VMWare Quality!"

March 16, 2018

5.0

Total control over my vSphere Server. Easy to use, excellent support, no complaints about any vmware product.

Pros

vCenter Configuration Manager is, like all VMWare products, very user friendly. Gives you superb control over vSphere. In short just an excellent product.

Cons

I can't really say very many bad things about VMware products except that because the products are made to be almost out of the box ready to use, you might need to do some investigating if a particular feature does not work, but if that is the case it is almost always a simple fix or easy to change setting.

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BF

Blake F.  
Systems Engineer-associate  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Used in home lab and enterprise environment. "

July 10, 2018

5.0

Pros

Using this as the central management for my Vsphere host and the clustering and migration tools work incredibly well.

Cons

Once and a while the web gui can hang up and be slow. And with the new reals of 6.7 they have changed a lot os srtting around so it's a big change to re lean all of it

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CH

Chris H.  
General Manager  
Media Production  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Bring insight to your infrastructure"

February 26, 2020

5.0

Having one view into our infrstructure was very important.

Pros

I love the fact that I can now see the data about each and every one of the pieces of compute that I am in charge of, add to the fact that SaltStack is an event engine, and this product is a powerful tool for successful automation

Cons

It's a bit complicated to get set up, but that was easily overcome.

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RL

Richard L.  
Service Specialist III  
Paper & Forest Products  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "It just works!!"

November 20, 2018

5.0

Pros

VMware has always just worked for our business with no issues.

Cons

Really can't think of any cons at this time.

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RB

Rebecca B.  
BI Report Dev  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A great tool "

April 17, 2018

5.0

I do not have anything bad to say about it. It is, in my opinion, the best compatibility you can find for VMware products. Overall I haven't had any poor experiences.

Pros

This gives you the ability to easily configure and move your virtual machines. It has a nice interface and it's not overly complicated.

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AC

Anthony C.  
Master Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Awesome product"

May 17, 2017

5.0

Drastically reduces time to deploy.

Pros

Super easy to use and integrates seemlessly into existing infrastructure. Cuts time for configuration drastically.

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