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CloudBolt Industry Insights Report:
The Truth About First-Generation Cloud Management Platforms:
A Focus on VMware vRealize Automation
Other 0%
Limited features in vRA 8 Advanced 0%
Why have you decided to replace your vRA altogether?
(Select all that apply)
N = 1 technology leader
Pain of migrating to vRA 8 100%
End-of-Life (EOL) for vRA 7 0%
Pressure from VMware to buy Enterprise to maintain current capabilities
100%
N = 200 technology leaders
Migrate to vRA 8 31%
Remain on vRA 7
3%
Undecided 6%
Remain on vRA 8
2%
Remain on vRA 7 and add other complementary solutions to get the
functionality I need (e.g., Terraform and/or Ansible)
36%
Replace vRA altogether with another cloud automation solution (e.g.,
Morpheus, CloudBolt, etc.)
1%
What is your vRA go-forward strategy
Migrate to vRA 8 and add other complementary solutions to get the
functionality I need
(e.g., Terraform and/or Ansible)
23%
I will not be migrating to vRA 8 1%
N = 196 technology leaders
Q3 or Q4 of 2021 32%
Already deployed 2%
Undecided 9%
Q1 or Q2 of 2022 47%
Q3 or Q4 of 2022 10%
If you are currently on vRA 7, when do you plan to deploy vRA 8?
No, we are not interested in Terraform at this time 5%
N = 200 technology leaders
Yes, with vRA 24%
No, but different departments are using Terraform 5%
Yes, but without vRA 16%
No, but we are considering Terraform instead of vRA 32%
No, but we want to evaluate Terraform 19%
Are you using Terraform?
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