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."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."
"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the packet trace flow and that the view of the whole environment is deep."
"The graphical interface of this environment is so good with all the views, the graphics, and everything in them. It's really easy for me. It doesn't need an engineer to work on it. It's easy enough that anyone can get into the environment and look for issues or look at how communication is going on across the VMs. It's pretty much straightforward."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"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."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"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."
"Support could be much better."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
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 LogicMonitor, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, VMware Aria Operations for Applications, Zabbix and Cisco Secure Workload. See our DX Spectrum vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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