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."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."
"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."
"You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels."
"It gave us one location, one place to do all of group administration, and to build dashboards, and device administration, inventory counts... it really reduced our overall administrative overhead."
"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."
"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."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue."
"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."
"The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement."
"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."
"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."
"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."
"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."
"I have mixed feeling about the scalability. I feel like there are things which are being put into UIM right now that are not being included in Performance Center that we need to see in Performance Center. We are kind of being driven to buy UIM, and I can't justify it."
"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."
"When it goes through discovery, or whatever it is doing in the back-end that slows it down, sometimes we get some failures with it. "
"This solution is not very scalable."
"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."
"This solution's implementation process could be quicker. They could also optimize the hardware requirements."
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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, OmniPeek and SolarWinds AppOptics. See our BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization vs. DX Performance Management report.
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