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StableNet vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Infosim and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Infosim is ranked #66 with an average rating of 7.5, while VMware is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.8. Infosim holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Infosim users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.
StableNet
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100% willing to recommend
vRealize Network Insight
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89% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and StableNet compete in network management and monitoring. vRealize Network Insight is favored for ease of deployment and customer service, while StableNet provides a superior feature set.

Features: vRealize Network Insight features advanced network monitoring, troubleshooting capabilities, and seamless integration with VMware environments. StableNet offers robust path analysis, extensive data access methods, and support for multi-vendor environments.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could improve its analytics depth, expand support for non-VMware environments, and enhance broader visibility. StableNet may focus on simplifying its deployment process, improving initial setup assistance, and expanding its customer service response time.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight is known for a straightforward setup process and responsive support. StableNet offers comprehensive technology support but involves a more complex deployment.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight is budget-friendly with lower setup costs and strong ROI. StableNet, despite higher pricing, offers greater returns through its extensive feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

StableNet
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
66th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
3
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
46
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (39th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of StableNet is 0.2%, up from 0.2% 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.
Network Monitoring Software
 

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ShahzadAziz - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly scalable and stable solution that provides excellent features and can be integrated with any product
The support team is more into R&D. They're not focused on support. The vendor lets the partners provide support for the solution. Partners must have StableNet-certified engineers. Complex problems arise for complex installations. When a problem is deep, it takes a lot of time to resolve it. It goes to the R&D and development teams. They do solve it, but the time taken could be reduced.
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NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can integrate any tool with StableNet."
"The solution is stable."
"The best features are the reporting, utilization, and network graph."
"Whenever we say "valuable" with respect to the network, it's more towards the security. The firewall rule issues it shows us and the recommendations that we get from vRNI are the most valuable features because they are actually making our network more secure."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We can see everything going on in NSX and get a good picture of our environment."
"It has enabled us to set up and do application discovery, as far as network traffic is concerned, and set up the appropriate rules that we need to make sure we're compliant with our security frameworks."
"The most valuable feture is NetFlow to help us understand how VMs communicate with each other over ports that are known and ports that are also unknown to us. Our company is a security company, so it's very important for us to know exactly which VMs are doing what at all times."
"The most valuable feature is the profiling of the applications for micro-segmentation... It has made the migration to NSX much easier. Most of the sys admins within the smaller silos, they have no idea what ports are needed to run their stuff at all. I am pretty sure the micro-segmentation would never, ever have occurred without it."
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Cons

"The existing dashboard capability is there, but it is not user-friendly."
"The dashboard has a lot of room for improvement."
"The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."
"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."
"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."
"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."
"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."
"It has brought more money into our company."
"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
21%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
In my opinion Infosim, StableNet Enterprise is the best as it is a third-generation highly automated network management system. It enables IT departments to unify the management requirements of the...
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What do you like most about StableNet?
We can integrate any tool with StableNet.
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What needs improvement with StableNet?
The dashboard has a lot of room for improvement. The product must have the plug-ins ready for standard integrations.
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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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Overview

StableNet provides Fault, Performance, Configuration, and Services Management on a single platform.
It is a vendor agnostic solution, built upon a single, consistent code base. The solution is easy to integrate and provides high performance while keeping low hardware requirements.

The unified network & services management approach has been proven with a large number of installations in key industry sectors like energy, finance, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and many more.

With this all-in-one NMS approach, Infosim revolutionizes the management of large heterogeneous network infrastructures.

Infosim
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.
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Sample Customers

Athenahealth, Barratt, Nocsult, Nucleus Connect, SCC
NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet
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