We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two DX NetOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"Prism's best features include the single point of failure (SPOF) and ease of implementation."
"Simplicity of use."
"The biggest plus that I want to commend them for is definitely their one-click update/upgrade feature. I use Prism for that and it's so amazing. That, by itself, is a selling point."
"What I like the most are the self-healing and the ability to see everything at a glance, from metrics to the resiliency status of the hardware. As soon as you log in, that's what you see."
"Nutanix Prism's dashboard is very simple, and you don't need much knowledge to use it."
"Nutanix is a HCA product and includes VMware called Nutanix Express that has been fantastic for us. We have about 100 plus VMs without any trouble and we have VCDR."
"The feature that stands out for me is the simplicity and ease of use. That is what comes to mind when I think about the Prism console. You don't need to be a core technical person to manage a cluster. Everything is available in the console itself."
"The GUI and the dashboard are impressive. I like that you can modify the GUI and the dashboard as per your requirements."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"The product currently fails to provide a complete view to customers."
"It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly. The dashboard and configuration should be much easier to use."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There are some things that you can only do via the command line. Over the years that I've been using Nutanix, they've slowly integrated those into Prism, but they're still trying to catch up with a solution that has been around longer, like VMware."
"The main area where an improvement could be made would be the pricing."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Zabbix, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Veeam ONE. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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