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CloudBolt Industry Insights Report:
The Truth About First-Generation Cloud Management Platforms:
A Focus on VMware vRealize Automation
and 200+ responses were collected from vRA customers globally. The distribution of titles for
respondents ended up being Director (56%), VP (27%), and CXO (17%). They answered a series
of 11 vRA-specific questions, from which an interesting picture clearly emerged.
VMware, and its vRA product specifically, may be struggling with the New Cloud Order. Gone
are the days of one public cloud and all workloads being on VMware. Organizations want to
offer true self-service across multiple clouds and virtualization platforms. They want
Terraform, they want CI/CD/CIT, they want DevOps. These are challenging requirements –
even for a market leader. Here are some of the most informative insights:
Wait and See: vRA 8 has been available since October 2019, yet
only 2% have deployed it.
It's the Custom Code, People:
The top 3 problems with vRA revolve around integrations
a. 'Enormous amount' of custom code required
b. Major releases cause huge re-writes
c. Low to no visibility of what flows through integrations
Everybody's Integration Problem:
Among vRA customers -
a. 59% have more than half of all their integrations custom
coded
b. 92% have more than a quarter of all their integrations
custom coded
The Better to Integrate With, My Dear:
vRA customers are becoming impatient with the inability to integrate with multiple
solutions and tools. 68% cited this as the single most important improvement vRA can
make.
Reasons to Leave:
The Top 2 reasons companies cite for wanting to leave vRA -
a. Pain of migrating to vRA (custom coded integrations and workflows must ALL
be rewritten)
b. Pressure to buy "Enterprise" edition to maintain current capabilities
(Enterprise is nearly double the cost of other editions)
2%
92%
