We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management, DX Spectrum, and ExtremeCloud IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."
"There is another component of the tool called Network Flow Analysis. It gives us the ability to troubleshoot issues which do not appear right away."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."
"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"We're able to present data from multiple back-end collection sources into a single dashboard for the users. So they don't have to go to multiple locations to get data about a particular item, or device."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The dashboards are great and the user interface is quite intuitive."
"The technical support for this solution is good."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its short deployment time."
"What I like best about ExtremeCloud IQ is its ease of use. Flexibility is another pro of ExtremeCloud IQ. I also find ExtremeCloud IQ feature-rich."
"ExtremeCloud IQ is integrated with the Ekahau tool so that you can log in to the ExtremeCloud IQ portal, upload the cloud plans, draw all the interiors, and plan the APs with the real-time AP position."
"What's most valuable for me in ExtremeCloud IQ is easy management. It also has centralized administration, so you don't have to go to the customer site to program it. It can be programmed remotely."
"Integrated Firewall in every AP (with DPI inspection) is a killer feature and it is included already in the price of licence (with others, this feature is an add-on licence)."
"a true controller-less approach, where each Access Point is 100% independent from the management system."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"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."
"DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary data center. It's crucial to maintain consistent monitoring of the devices during this transition. Therefore, I require continuous, 24/7 monitoring of my system using this tool."
"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."
"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."
"It needs role-based administration."
"This may be available by now but for server space, when it comes to the disk file system, I'd like to see that graphically represented, or the trend, rather than what I'm seeing now."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"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."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Its price could be lower. It is a simplified solution, but it has price challenges. It is costly as compared to other solutions. It has almost everything. The only thing is that MAC is not possible on the cloud, and it has to be on-premises."
"ExtremeCloud IQ’s user interface needs to be improved, and its current bugs need to be fixed."
"For me, the only issue is the potential delay in the tool statistics updating in real time after making changes."
"ExtremeCloud should invest in an SD-WAN solution or integration with SD-WAN."
"I would like to see more security features such as NAC integrated to the solution. This would allow customers to be able to control all other users under one dashboard."
"Their firewall configuration gets funky and it can be difficult to understand."
"Pricing is a bit expensive."
"The licensing model could be improved."
