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 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."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"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 capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The integration point."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the visualization. It's really handy to be able to classify network objects as with applications and see the interaction between them."
"The most valuable features are the packet trace flow and that the view of the whole environment is deep."
"We can see everything going on in NSX and get a good picture of our environment."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."
"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."
"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"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."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"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."
"The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private cloud setup, such as VMware. Another segment operates within public cloud environments like Azure and AWS, and a portion remains in traditional data centers. There should be seamless interoperability between public and private clouds. AWS and VMware need to work together to make it possible. Whether users interact with on-premise infrastructure or configure resources in the public cloud, the user experience must be seamless."
"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."
"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."
"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."
"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."
"There could be some deeper analytics into packet inspection and trace flows. It could use some kind of machine learning to look at Layer 7 traffic for potential malware or corrupt packets."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in Network Monitoring Software 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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, AppNeta by Broadcom and Cisco Secure Workload. See our DX Spectrum vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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