vRealize Orchestrator

What do you like best?

Wide range API integration possibilities are available, even the out-of-box ones are pretty good. Because of the huge community there are a lots of problems and solutions article which could help.

The learning curve is nice, if you have previous devops / scripting experience you can learn it fast.

There are also sample workflows / actions

What do you dislike?

The JavaScript engine until the v7.x is pretty old, uses the old ES5 (rhino)

However in the vRA8 via ABX there are node, PowerShell and python script language options, so you can even mix them in a workflow. The WEB UI (instead of the old fashion java based thick client), is pretty nice, has almost the same functionality, however it is a modern flat based UI, and you no not need to download client.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

wide range integration options, JavaScript language, well-known vendor, huge community

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Complete e2e cloud integration projects, such as DB, APP, Backup, SDN, LoadBalancer, firewall integrations for self service portal vRealize Automation - so you can build an on prem cloud.