CA Unified Communications Monitor vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Broadcom and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #71, while VMware is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.8. Broadcom holds a 0.1% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

CA Unified Communications Monitor and vRealize Network Insight compete in network performance monitoring and management. vRealize Network Insight has an advantage due to its advanced features, making it more preferable despite its higher pricing.

Features: CA Unified Communications Monitor provides real-time monitoring and reporting with detailed insights into communication network performance. It allows users to track call quality and ensure data integrity. vRealize Network Insight offers comprehensive network visualization and advanced analytics, providing visibility into both physical and virtual environments with superior sophistication.

Room for Improvement: CA Unified Communications Monitor could enhance its integration capabilities and user interface to align more closely with modern design standards. Expanding its analytics features would also be beneficial. vRealize Network Insight can improve by offering more competitive pricing and simplifying its initial configuration process. Additional enhancements in customer self-service options may also be valuable.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure and is noted for its intuitive configuration process alongside robust customer service. CA Unified Communications Monitor has straightforward deployment but may need more initial setup, receiving praise for strong customer support responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: CA Unified Communications Monitor is budget-friendly, offering essential monitoring features at a lower price point and demonstrating good ROI. vRealize Network Insight, while more costly, delivers higher ROI thanks to its extensive feature set and superior network insights.

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Categories and Ranking

CA Unified Communications M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

102nd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

71st

Average Rating

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Unified Communications Monitoring (5th)

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

23rd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of CA Unified Communications Monitor is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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IT Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Good end-to-end voice quality monitoring and offers valuable features

The solution should have automatic baseline detection. On the per hour, per base, per week. That's usually the best. And on a per individual CI level. I know that they're working on it and when that's available then we will definitely implement it because it will reduce the effort we need to maintain all the products. Right now we have to set thresholds for every location, and it needs to be actually dynamic so if we have better thresholding, we'll have faster alarms across all our locations. We won't have to expend effort on it by resetting or checking them on a regular basis.

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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We use the solution to meet the needs of the customer."

"Good end-to-end monitoring"

"It has enabled us to set up and do application discovery, as far as network traffic is concerned, and set up the appropriate rules that we need to make sure we're compliant with our security frameworks."

"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."

"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."

"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."

"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."

"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."

"As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need."

"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."

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Cons

"The solution should have automatic baseline detection."

"All the features and functions of the solution can be improved."

"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."

"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."

"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."

"There's enough information there, especially in the visualizations, but I would love to see this in a kiosk mode, where I could have a dashboard for interested stakeholders to see and appreciate what's going on. Then, moving on to a more practical level for our Help Desk, our operations team could benefit by seeing, in real-time, a visual view of the network."

"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 compatibility with each and every component of the infrastructure is the main thing that I am looking for. I would like them to make sure that it's compatible with different kinds of storage systems, etc. I have seen the compatibility list. I feel it can be more compatible than it is right now."

"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."

"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."

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"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Also Known As

CA UC Monitor

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Overview

CA Unified Communications Monitor is a unified communications monitoring solution that evaluates and reports on the network’s support of real-time applications in multi-vendor environments, so that Network Administrators can optimize the network’s quality of service and end user experience.

Broadcom

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

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BBVA Compass

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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