Before choosing the solution we evaluated Calico.

We show the solution to customers who need to implement NSX or will be moving into the virtualization, because even nowadays, there are still companies which are not virtualized. The graphical interface makes it easier for customers to see the benefits of it.

We also have Cisco customers who use Cisco switches. Cisco has a CLI tool where you can check throughput, performance, etc. 

We looked at some Netscout stuff but it just wasn't working out. We looked at Cisco Tetration Analytics instead but it wasn't giving us what we wanted.

Turbonomic.

We chose VMware for their product, their environment, and the confidence level of using the product itself.

Because it looked like it would do the job, we didn't look at anything else.

We considered Cisco and we considered some other small vendors, as well as Palo Alto. But eventually, because we are a VMware shop and our entire team was working with VMware, we went with this product.

We're not really comparing it to any other vendors. I don't know of anyone that does microsegmentation and whose solution is integrated within VMware's environment

We had an inner engagement, and their engineers highly recommended using the tool, as far as the implementation for NSX.

Before this, we weren't using another solution at all. We're pretty much using VMware for this type of environment.

We initially went with what we were using on our traditional memory side, your traditional network monitoring. CA Spectrum is what we use on that side. We've looked at that and some basic netflow monitors.

We never even a solution existed until we saw vRNI.

We use a couple different tools, like RightScale, for application rationalization. Obviously, it's very challenging to get data out of a virtualized environment. vRNI does it better than anything we've used in the past. This is the biggest differentiator over other tools that we have been using. Now, we use vRNI along with other application analysis tools that we use in other practices within our company. We have been able to essentially add a lot of value using this tool with other practices and offerings that we do around application rationalization.

Dell EMC, Hitachi, and sometimes Microsoft.

We chose VMware because they have one of the better products on the market for what they do: virtualization.

There was nobody else on our shortlist when we chose vRNI.

This was really the only solution that provided the features that we were looking for.

For this, really nobody. Just VMware.

This provides a holistic view. The other computer tools provide certain pieces of it. This has a more holistic approach, the big picture.

Our company did some work with SolarWinds, but they're not quite the same thing. Also, Dell's old Foglight, I don't know if they're still around. That was another one, but it was not really in the same arena. They didn't really do what we wanted.

For me, it was a no-brainer because we would like to integrate everything with VMware. I hate to go to another supplier, use another tool, to do the same thing.

No one else. Just VMware.

We used Microsoft for monitoring solutions as well, then VMware. We chose VM because it's more integrated with what we're trying to do with the infrastructure.