We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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 most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The most valuable feature is their support, they get better every day."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"It's really user-friendly."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it allows for easy suite configuration. We can handle everything on there when there's a policy or any other requirement."
"It allows us to go from virtual through NSX, up to the core, and see all of that in one pane of glass, it's pretty easy."
"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."
"vRNI can trace the flow of each and every packet and it is easy for us to troubleshoot all the issues that we do have with the networking. We can trace down the packet to a point where it has been dropped."
"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."
"The solution is extremely intuitive and user-friendly. When you log in to the application you are presented with a dashboard that is very reasonable for an initial user, and you can then customize it to your specific needs. But for all the data that we've found, we've only had to go through two or three drill-downs to get into that information."
"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."
"The initial was straightforward. You can have it up and running in one hour."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"Some features could be added."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
"If it were more application-aware, more descriptive; if it were able to determine the application that is actually doing the communication, that would be easier. More application information: which user or account it's accessing, is it accessing this application, doing these calls, if it is accessing a script, what script is it accessing. Things like that would provide deeper analytics so I can track what's going on. It would not just be, "These people shouldn't be talking," but who is actually doing these calls."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"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."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Zabbix, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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