We performed a comparison between VMware vCenter and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward even for complex environments with around 100 hosts."
"The performance monitoring tools within vCenter help track resource usage, identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize the efficiency of virtual environments."
"The product has improved our system's proactive support for in-built AI tools."
"The filtering capabilities also enhance scalability by optimizing resource allocation."
"The most valuable features of VMware vCenter for our organization include its centralized management capabilities and the ability to handle virtual machines across multiple ESXi hosts efficiently."
"The alerting mechanism is very good. VMware vCenter simplifies infrastructure management with its intuitive interface."
"The product is scalable."
"We use VMware vCenter for centralization and to manage all the VMs."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"It is stable."
"The documentation is very good."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The monitoring features are limited."
"Consolidating these plugins into a unified environment with customizable options to enable or disable features would be highly beneficial."
"If VMware integrates some features of their other solution into VMware vCenter, operational managers might find it beneficial. Many organizations prefer to maintain separate solution sets based on specific needs and data requirements."
"VMware vCenter does not have a centralized security dashboard, and it is pretty tedious to configure."
"We have to buy more VMware products to leverage the centralized management."
"VMware vCenter is an expensive product. Its price needs improvement."
"The web interface is not convenient."
"Areas for improvement with vCenter include changes in licensing models."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"The product is old and not updated."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
VMware vCenter is ranked 8th in Server Monitoring with 22 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 15th in Server Monitoring with 22 reviews. VMware vCenter is rated 8.6, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of VMware vCenter writes "Offers highly valuable centralized features and has significantly simplified VM deployment and management processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". VMware vCenter is most compared with , whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our VMware vCenter vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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