We performed a comparison between SCOM and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The solution helps reduce time to value, increase performance, provide deep visibility, and easily manage networks."
"It allows you to see traffic that you couldn't otherwise see, which is traffic within your Layer 3-bounded network, meaning east-west traffic. It's hard to get that any other way."
"Whenever we say "valuable" with respect to the network, it's more towards the security. The firewall rule issues it shows us and the recommendations that we get from vRNI are the most valuable features because they are actually making our network more secure."
"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."
"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."
"It especially helps with deploying NSX, that you're not having to manually chase down and figure out what you need to do to microsegment VMs. This gives a nice option where you can say, "Hey, this VM, show me what flows are there." I can export it out and then import it as an NSX rule and job done."
"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."
"It allowed us to set up NSX and to do microsegmentation, without all of the pain points of having to determine each port and each IP address that needed to have access, and which ones needed to be blocked."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
"The compatibility with each and every component of the infrastructure is the main thing that I am looking for. I would like them to make sure that it's compatible with different kinds of storage systems, etc. I have seen the compatibility list. I feel it can be more compatible than it is right now."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."
"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix and SolarWinds NPM. See our SCOM vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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