ManageEngine OpManager vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

ManageEngine and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while VMware is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.8. ManageEngine holds a 1.6% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of ManageEngine users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

ManageEngine OpManager

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83% willing to recommend

vRealize Network Insight

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540 Comparison Views

89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ManageEngine OpManager and vRealize Network Insight offer significant benefits in network monitoring and management. OpManager is praised for its pricing and support efficiency, while vRealize Network Insight stands out in features and integration.

Features: ManageEngine OpManager includes network device monitoring, robust server monitoring, and an alerting system for real-time failure detection. It offers detailed network visibility and capacity management tools. Its integration capabilities and FIM and SIEM features are highly regarded. vRealize Network Insight is known for rich visualization of network flows, an intuitive interface, and microsegmentation facilitation. It provides extensive monitoring and analysis capabilities, crucial for network planning and troubleshooting.

Room for Improvement: ManageEngine OpManager needs better support, enhanced dashboard customization, and improved documentation. Stability during upgrades and a more intuitive configuration process require attention. vRealize Network Insight could benefit from expanded third-party support, simplified integrations, and reduced costs. Enhancements in microsegmentation rules and interoperability with multi-vendor environments are also necessary.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ManageEngine OpManager is mainly deployed on-premises and receives mixed feedback regarding support. Some users have excellent experiences, while others encounter delays. Technical assistance is generally responsive. vRealize Network Insight, also primarily on-premises, has excellent customer and technical support, though there is a need for 24/7 coverage and quicker escalation processes.

Pricing and ROI: ManageEngine OpManager is cost-effective, with a competitive pricing model offering quick ROI through reduced staffing needs and improved uptime. vRealize Network Insight is more expensive, but the cost is justified through its comprehensive features, providing immediate ROI through enhanced uptime and reduced troubleshooting time with its monitoring capabilities.

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ManageEngine OpManager vs. vRealize Network Insight

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Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine OpManager

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (39th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ManageEngine OpManager is 1.6%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.6%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MUBDIUL ISLAM

Junior System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited

NetFlow monitoring has improved operations but needs better configurations

For the implementation part, I am facing issues when configuring the business view. When I create the business view, I experience problems with the port interface. When I add the interface, I am confused about which interface is connected to which endpoint. If identifying the interface was easier, it would take less time to configure. Another issue is with threshold values; sometimes, it shows kilobytes (kB) while our threshold is set to gigabytes. This can be confusing. Improving this aspect would be beneficial. In URL monitoring, there is room for enhancement.

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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Pros

"We have found the solution to be stable."

"Flexibility in the two view dashboard helps viewers and admins get the information they need about the fetwork in a flash."

"Overall, I give the product a rating of ten."

"Some of the useful features are NetFlow and analytics."

"Some of the most valuable features are the accessibility of the solution and the fact that it is simpler than other products. For example, discovering devices in the network is very simple, making it user-friendly."

"Device monitoring is a good tool of this solution."

"The solution gives pretty good network visibility. I am also impressed with it's monitoring."

"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine OpManager makes it easy to monitor all the network alerts on the application."

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"It's user-friendly. It's similar to the GUI that most VMware products are moving to, and the consistency across those makes it easy to switch from one product to another. Also, the search bar at the top is plain text and it helps you, it guides you along with your search query, so that helps. The first day you're in there you can start building actual queries."

"The solution helps reduce time to value, increase performance, provide deep visibility, and easily manage networks."

"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."

"A lot of time is saved when you use this type of software solution for the network. We have moved systems into the new data center and the servers and systems are much faster because of the very low latency between virtual machines."

"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."

"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."

"I find it user-friendly and intuitive. With the GUI interface that we do use on a regular basis, it's easy to navigate, it's easy to see, easy to query. We get reports. It's easy to use."

"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."

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Cons

"We would like link monitoring included. At times we need to monitor those specific links closely."

"We encounter challenges in monitoring cloud services. I would also appreciate it if there was someone available to walk you through the documentation."

"For the implementation part, I am facing issues when configuring the business view."

"We have been facing an issue since last year when a lot of our users started to work from home through their mobiles or computers. We are having trouble reaching these devices. We are now planning to publish our instance to the cloud so that we can reach these devices. Its performance should be improved in terms of the discovery of the devices. I would like to feel confident with the discovery that this solution does. For example, on my dashboard, I would like to be able to view a list of all devices seen on a specific server. At present, it is difficult to find such information. This would be an excellent feature to have."

"Needs an OVA, or more support for virtual deployments. Building a virtual instance of OpManager and OpManager Probe was a bit difficult because there was no OVA available."

"We would like the solution's customize and build functionality to be more user-friendly."

"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."

"We get a lot of false alerts."

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"It just needs to be more reliable and more accurate. At some point, there are some things where it does not match properly."

"If it had some kind of plugins with vSphere, more effective plugins with Horizon View or other VMWare products, if it had interconnectivity, I think it would be more effective than it is today."

"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."

"The compatibility with each and every component of the infrastructure is the main thing that I am looking for. I would like them to make sure that it's compatible with different kinds of storage systems, etc. I have seen the compatibility list. I feel it can be more compatible than it is right now."

"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."

"When we talk about those micro-segmentation rules, there's an Export function. It is very macro-segmentation oriented instead. So if you choose an application, it will find the tiers within that application and say that it's communicating on, say, port 80 to a separate VLAN. There might be 200 machines in that other VLAN. You don't want to open port 80 at all of them. So we need a lot more granularity in those suggested firewall rules."

"If it were more application-aware, more descriptive; if it were able to determine the application that is actually doing the communication, that would be easier. More application information: which user or account it's accessing, is it accessing this application, doing these calls, if it is accessing a script, what script is it accessing. Things like that would provide deeper analytics so I can track what's going on. It would not just be, "These people shouldn't be talking," but who is actually doing these calls."

"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs depend on the number of devices and accounts that are being monitored by the solution."

"As far as cost, it was around six hundred thousand rands ($40,500) for the year, for the renewals. That's the total cost for a four thousand node system including support and maintenance."

"It is reasonably priced."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The price for ManageEngine OpManager is average."

"The product is not worth the money."

"We have a standard license for ManageEngine OpManager. We purchased the license for one year and now we are upgrading it soon."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis and the pricing is on the cheaper side."

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"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ManageEngine OpManager?

The product provides intensive reports.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine OpManager?

The pricing was okay. However, it has been increasing a lot lately. The product is not worth the money.

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What needs improvement with ManageEngine OpManager?

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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Also Known As

OpManager

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Overview

ManageEngine OpManager is a network, server, and virtualization monitoring software that helps SMEs, large enterprises and service providers manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to setup a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation.

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VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

VMware

Sample Customers

Bonita, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Galaxy, Fiserv Credit Union Division, Universitas 21 Global, ERP Suites LLC

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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