We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup process is quite simple."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"The initial setup was easy."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."
"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."
"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"Support could be much better."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 21 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 32nd in Network Monitoring Software with 2 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.8, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Manageable, user-friendly, and easy to set up". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Mist AI and Cloud and Auvik, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront, Cisco Secure Workload, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and ThousandEyes. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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