DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and VMware Aria Operations for Applications are both solutions in the Cloud Monitoring Software category. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked #38, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.8. DX Unified Infrastructure Management holds a 0.6% mindshare in CMS, compared to VMware Aria Operations for Applications’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of DX Unified Infrastructure Management users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of VMware Aria Operations for Applications users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 24, 2025

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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

50th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

38th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (73rd), Server Monitoring (22nd), AIOps (25th)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

15th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (17th), Container Monitoring (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.9%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
VMware Aria Operations for Applications	1.9%
DX Unified Infrastructure Management	0.6%
Other	97.5%

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Featured Reviews

Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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ToniLindberg

senior consultant at Virtual Consultants Sverige AB

Troubleshooting capabilities have improved application monitoring and support engagement

I can see what happens end to end, which is pretty beneficial. The solution has troubleshooting capabilities, providing a direct connection to knowledge base articles from VMware Broadcom. When I encounter an error, I can search directly within the system to see what solutions have been employed by others. It has a familiar interface, which makes it easy to get started.

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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 delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"

"DX UIM is scalable."

"Great out-of-the-box capability."

"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."

"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."

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

"It is easy to implement."

"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."

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"The solution provides single-console management for multiple VMware environments and cloud integrations, whether hybrid, private, or public cloud."

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

"It has a familiar interface, which makes it easy to get started."

"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."

"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."

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

"It significantly improves application performance management by offering recommendations for resource allocation to avoid wastage or overcommitment."

"People are very pleased with the implementation."

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Cons

"I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."

"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."

"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."

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

"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."

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

"We've had issues with pulling reports."

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

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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."

"The return on investment is best suited for organizations that do not have the resources for a dedicated VM environment team. However, the cost of the product doesn't show significant benefits."

"I find that there could be improvements in the support service response time, as the urgency varies unless specified as Priority 2 or 1 cases."

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

"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."

"An area for improvement would be more in-depth reporting, such as analyzing disk IO during business hours compared to after hours."

"VMware technical support has declined since the Broadcom acquisition. Previously, they were more focused on issue resolution, but now they prioritize licensing verification before providing support."

"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."

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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."

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

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

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Performing Arts

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	80

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

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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

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.

Broadcom

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.

Broadcom

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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