We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The integration point."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It provides deep visibility into what is happening with traffic and helps us manage our network."
"The initial was straightforward. You can have it up and running in one hour."
"As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need."
"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."
"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."
"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and tracking. It's also intuitive and user-friendly. The screen looks exactly the same as the other appliances for VMware, so it's easy to navigate."
"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."
"Support could be much better."
"It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses."
"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."
"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."
"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 24th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 44 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix and VMware Aria Operations for Applications. See our DX Spectrum vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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