What is the difference between SDDC Manager and vRealize Automation

The Reason for this post is lots of friends and colleague have asked What is the difference between SDDC Manager and vRealize Automation both are Hybrid Cloud . SDDC Manager and vRealize Automation automate different aspects of building and running private and Hybrid clouds. Let dive in to see the difference below

SDDC Manager : SDDC Manager automates the installation and lifecycle management of the vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vRealize Suite components from bring-up and configuration to patching and upgrading, making it simple for the cloud admin to build and maintain the SDDC. SDDC Manager is used to deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) in Cloud Foundation mode and creates a two-way communication channel between the two products. When deployed in this way, vRSLCM is now VCF aware, and reports back to the SDDC Manager what vRealize products are installed. With the new flexible upgrades capability, vRSLCM enables the selection of the desired version of vRealize suite independent of the VMware Cloud Foundation version.

vRealize Automation : vRealize Automation Also referred to as vRA is a DevOps-based infrastructure management platform for provisioning and configuring IT resources and automating the delivery of container-based applications. vRA allows you to deploy services in your private vSphere cloud. With vRA, admins, developers, and users can request services and manage resources without going against business policies. It processes requests through a common service catalog to give a consistent user experience. Using vRealize Automation helps to accelerate the management and deployment of compute services and applications.