DX NetOps vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Broadcom and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.5, while VMware is ranked #19 with an average rating of 9.1. Broadcom holds a 0.6% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

DX NetOps

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and DX NetOps compete in the network management and performance category. While both have strengths, vRealize Network Insight is noted for its superior visualization capabilities, whereas DX NetOps leads in performance metrics and data integration.

Features: vRealize Network Insight provides network insights including visualizing network flows, assessing application interactions, and microsegmentation. It consolidates logs and uses natural language queries for ease of use. DX NetOps focuses on performance management, analyzing east-west data center traffic, and excels in integration with detailed network insights.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could improve integration with services like NSX, user-friendliness in the GUI, and better pricing structures. DX NetOps might enhance technical support responsiveness, automate network management tasks, and expand third-party compatibility. Both products could increase the intuitiveness of their user interfaces, though vRealize Network Insight generally requires less training.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight and DX NetOps support on-premises deployment, with DX NetOps also supporting hybrid cloud setups. vRealize's technical support is often responsive and helpful, with DX NetOps also having positive support feedback, despite occasional communication barriers. Both solutions are user-friendly for deployment and initial setup, with vRealize slightly favored for easier deployment.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight is viewed as expensive but offers significant ROI by saving on network management time. Pricing could improve, and localized variations affect perception. DX NetOps, although appearing costly initially, often includes discounts and flexible pricing models. Its ROI is realized through reduced operational costs and enhanced network efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

DX NetOps

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

27th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AIOps (10th)

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

19th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX NetOps is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.8%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wael Abdelwahab

Deputy General Manager at banque misr

Good performance, simple setup, and helpful for root cause analysis

The solution is very straightforward and simple. It's not a complex process. I'd rate the initial setup a five out of five in terms of how easy the process is. Initially, it was a very simple installation, one server, and not sophisticated. That said, afterward, we enhanced it, and after consultation, we enhanced it to be scalable in installation to cover all our branches on our device. For some applications and network management, it took about three months to accomplish the full installation. Even after that, we changed the strategy and redeployed again. It took about a couple of months to have all modules configured and running. That's for the full implementation, not just the installation. The deployment was run by one or two people. You don't need a lot of staff or a lot of people involved in it. No, there are a lot of people using it as it's in every department. We have 25 people administering it daily. They work in shifts, so not everyone is on it at once. There are about five people handling maintenance.

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is straightforward to configure, and you can quickly gather data from your infrastructure."

"The solution is stable."

"It's good for root cause analysis for network problems and network link problems."

"I like that it provides an overall view of our network. From the topology view to every event, we can view it. We can also see the interface utilization for future capacity planning. It fits our use case and environment."

"A highly scalable solution."

"The AI is the best feature in this solution."

"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."

"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 most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."

"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."

"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."

"One of the most valuable features is the ability to look at the traffic flows, to look at NetFlow data."

"The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable."

"It especially helps with deploying NSX, that you're not having to manually chase down and figure out what you need to do to microsegment VMs. This gives a nice option where you can say, "Hey, this VM, show me what flows are there." I can export it out and then import it as an NSX rule and job done."

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Cons

"Technical support needs to be better. They need to be more knowledgeable and responsive."

"It would be better if they had an NFA network analysis feature. We appreciate features like extended network security for bucket flows, but it would be better to have some IDs, IPS functionalities, DDoS, or something like that."

"Technical support could be more responsive."

"Lacks dashboards and better integration with other solutions."

"The hardware requirements can be improved."

"One improvement that could make the product better is to streamline its modules into a more cohesive solution."

"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."

"Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined."

"It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses."

"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."

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

"The UI, even though once you get to know it, it's easier, still it's hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos. It has a lot of data on it. So that is an issue."

"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."

"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."

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"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX NetOps?

It is straightforward to configure, and you can quickly gather data from your infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX NetOps?

The cost of the solution depends upon its scale and the number of devices that need to be monitored in a given project. The country of purchase is also a factor in the cost of the solution.

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What needs improvement with DX NetOps?

The hardware requirements for implementation can be improved and modified for the solution.

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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

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

The sales team often complains about the cost whenever we need to quote vRealize Network.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined. They can show a little bit more information because vRealize Network Insight is virtu...

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Overview

DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom company, improves your time to value through advanced AI capabilities and unified network visibility that delivers simplified NetOps intelligence into the user experience that traverses modern architectures. DX NetOps accomplishes this through high scale, unified network monitoring that enables full-stack analytics for assuring traditional and modern architectures. DX NetOps converts inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow and packet analysis into actionable intelligence for network operations teams. Complimented by our AIOps solution, DX NetOps enables IT teams to establish proactive, autonomous remediation capabilities across the applications, infrastructure, and networks that fuel superior user experiences.

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.

Sample Customers

Fujitsu

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

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