DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Broadcom and VMware are both solutions in the Cloud Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.2, while VMware is ranked #32 with an average rating of 7.5. Broadcom holds a 0.6% mindshare in CMS, compared to VMware’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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DX Unified Infrastructure Management and VMware Aria Operations for Applications compete in the IT infrastructure management category. VMware Aria Operations has the upper hand with its advanced integration in new tech stacks and cross-platform monitoring capabilities.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers extensive scalability, a wide array of monitoring probes, and stability due to its non-Java technology. Simple deployment and flexible customization tools like Infrastructure Manager and Unified Monitoring Portal are noteworthy. VMware Aria Operations for Applications focuses on cross-platform monitoring with robust support, especially in cloud environments, and notable integration capabilities with new tech stacks.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could improve the administration interface, enhance mobile interfaces, and provide better reporting customization. VMware Aria Operations for Applications needs robustness in large environments, improved alert configurations, and seamless setup processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management supports hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud deployments with commendable but sometimes challenging customer service. VMware Aria Operations also supports hybrid and on-premises environments, with improved support, although with some decline in quality after acquisition.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management's pricing is high but considered cost-efficient with good license planning, leading to excellent long-term ROI. VMware Aria Operations for Applications is seen as costly due to multiple licenses required for integration, but it provides value by consolidating technologies within a unified framework.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

28th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

24th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (34th), Server Monitoring (12th), AIOps (11th)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

42nd

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

32nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (40th), Container Monitoring (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.8%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Arunpandiyan M

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support

There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.

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Yves Sandfort

CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH

Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights

Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more. The other thing for us is that while it is great that we have all these standard metrics, it would be good if we can also more easily define standard metrics to be consumed for our own application. At the moment, for a lot of applications, we have to reinvent the wheel every time. If there was something so that we can build our own packaging of metrics, it would be helpful. In the future, we might be deploying our software to other customers as well. So, they should make it easier to redeploy that. There should be more customizable dashboards. The Wavefront dashboards are very technical and a more business-oriented dashboard design would definitely help.

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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

"MultiWAN and Balance service"

"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."

"It is very scalable."

"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."

"What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"One of the things that I like about DX Infrastructure is that the topology is good enough to see what is happening in the infrastructure. You also get alerts if something is happening in the network. There are many features and benefits. It is serving our customers in knowing exactly how their network is performing in terms of reliability. It also helps them in planning the capacity. They know how much bandwidth the branches are consuming."

"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."

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"People are very pleased with the implementation."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."

"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."

"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."

"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."

"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."

"No issues with stability."

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Cons

"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."

"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."

"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."

"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."

"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."

"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."

"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."

"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."

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"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."

"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."

"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"Customers pay for the license and the support."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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Manufacturing Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

I primarily use DX UIM to capture performance data and faults.

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?

I wouldn't recommend DX UIM to other users because of its issues with reporting and stability - SolarWinds would be a better choice. I would give DX UIM a rating of seven out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?

For us, while the base price is the same, we are moving device types and are in the process of negotiating costs with Broadcom. They have a price for MSPs and also for services. We are trying to re...

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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I would rate the pricing as three out of five.

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems. The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware

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