DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

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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

50th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

121

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (63rd), Server Monitoring (21st), AIOps (19th)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

45th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

33rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (48th), Container Monitoring (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 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 1.9%, up from 1.9% 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

"Probe packages and probe deployment."

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

"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."

"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."

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

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

"It is easy to implement."

"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."

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"No issues with stability."

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

"People are very pleased with the implementation."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."

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Cons

"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."

"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."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."

"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."

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

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"Customers pay for the license and the support."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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Manufacturing Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...

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

I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...

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

The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...

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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 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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What is your primary use case for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I primarily use the solution for consulting. I help company DevOps teams.

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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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