We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization and DX Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure Capacity Planning solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Workload characterization is super important because it lets us figure things out. Many people know, for example, that with Microsoft Word, Word.exe is the executable. Everybody knows their executable, but they don't always know what it does. It also launches other things. This tool has the ability and insight to track those things, and to know: "Oh, you wanted this executable, but this one started this, so you must want this, too." And it tells you what it had to add, what it was using or was spawning."
"We ingest a ton of business data. We are an insurance company and we have business data, like how many quotes are done an hour, and how many policies are sold per hour. The correlation engine in the new TrueSight Capacity Optimization components are wonderful. We can do correlation analysis over months of data, and then we run models to tell our business: 'If you do 1,000 more quotes an hour, we're going to have to upgrade, and we're going to need this much more hardware.'"
"The most interesting feature is certainly the simulation of the load using different servers or different KPI parameters of the business."
"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."
"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."
"It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices."
"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."
"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."
"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page."
"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."
"Some of the data management is painful. Some of the new features haven't been implemented in quite the way I would like to get to levels of detail. For example, Visualizer parser doesn't take everything it should out of the Visualizer files. We've had to put in a work-around, but the work-around is not as accurate as what's in the file."
"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."
"The quantity of views which are tied to specific metric families is too high. Also, the problem is the view doesn't tell you which metric family it uses, so you don't know why you don't see data."
"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."
"Some of the individual report views, the way some of the columns sort, there's room for improvement in giving us more flexibility in being able to sort reports based, for example, on what columns the metrics fall under."
"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."
"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."
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BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is ranked 1st in Infrastructure Capacity Planning while DX Performance Management is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure Capacity Planning with 31 reviews. BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is rated 10.0, while DX Performance Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization writes "Enables us to right-size systems to free up resources, and identify performance problems down to the process level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is most compared with OpenText Cloud Optimizer, Fortra's VCM Enterprise and ITRS Capacity Planner, whereas DX Performance Management is most compared with DX Spectrum and SolarWinds AppOptics. See our BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization vs. DX Performance Management report.
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