"We ingest a ton of business data. We are an insurance company and we have business data, like how many quotes are done an hour, and how many policies are sold per hour. The correlation engine in the new TrueSight Capacity Optimization components are wonderful. We can do correlation analysis over months of data, and then we run models to tell our business: 'If you do 1,000 more quotes an hour, we're going to have to upgrade, and we're going to need this much more hardware.'"
"Workload characterization is super important because it lets us figure things out. Many people know, for example, that with Microsoft Word, Word.exe is the executable. Everybody knows their executable, but they don't always know what it does. It also launches other things. This tool has the ability and insight to track those things, and to know: "Oh, you wanted this executable, but this one started this, so you must want this, too." And it tells you what it had to add, what it was using or was spawning."
"The most interesting feature is certainly the simulation of the load using different servers or different KPI parameters of the business."
"The integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass."
"You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels."
"The tool helps us understand network performance."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."
"We're able to present data from multiple back-end collection sources into a single dashboard for the users. So they don't have to go to multiple locations to get data about a particular item, or device."
"It is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers."
"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."
"Some of the data management is painful. Some of the new features haven't been implemented in quite the way I would like to get to levels of detail. For example, Visualizer parser doesn't take everything it should out of the Visualizer files. We've had to put in a work-around, but the work-around is not as accurate as what's in the file."
"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."
"This may be available by now but for server space, when it comes to the disk file system, I'd like to see that graphically represented, or the trend, rather than what I'm seeing now."
"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."
"DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary data center. It's crucial to maintain consistent monitoring of the devices during this transition. Therefore, I require continuous, 24/7 monitoring of my system using this tool."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."
"Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."
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BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is ranked 1st in Infrastructure Capacity Planning while DX Performance Management is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure Capacity Planning with 31 reviews. BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is rated 10.0, while DX Performance Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization writes "Enables us to right-size systems to free up resources, and identify performance problems down to the process level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is most compared with Fortra's VCM Enterprise and OpenText Cloud Optimizer, whereas DX Performance Management is most compared with DX Spectrum, OmniPeek and Zabbix.
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