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it_user526068 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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You can view flows inside your network, though the GUI needs improvement

What is most valuable?

The way you can view flows inside your network.

How has it helped my organization?

We're able to implement intersects using this tool.

What needs improvement?

Make the GUI easier to use.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

I recommend for anyone deploying this solution that you are going to have to get everything to point to that piece of software. So, you get a good rating, thus getting you good data.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's good. Solid.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's good.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't used technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We weren't using anything previously. We were going to implement the NSX, so we knew we needed to use this solution.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the initial setup. It was pretty straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No one else. Just VMware.

What other advice do I have?

If you are going to implement NSX, it's a great tool. It really helps. The network piece, they should look at that, and see what to do with NSX.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: good support.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Systems Engineer at Mednax
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Makes it easier to identify issues and troubleshoot them

What is most valuable?

Going through our logs within the system, it's easier to identify issues. For example, the filtering in order to show correct errors. In addition, the troubleshooting timeframe shortens a lot with our product.

How has it helped my organization?

Instead of gathering so many resources, such as, multiple system engineers, network engineers, and search engineers, now it's all in one shop. One person can actually troubleshoot the issue without bringing in so many people. The troubleshooting time has been greatly reduced.

What needs improvement?

The pricing is steep.

For how long have I used the solution?

The past two months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have had no issues so far, since the deployment. It's been pretty stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very easy to work with; you can add nodes as you go. As your environment grows, you can add nodes to it, increase it, then scale out.

How is customer service and technical support?

Technical support is great. They do excellent work. They stay on top of their tickets and support cases. We get updates on a daily basis, so I'm very satisfied with the support.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the initial setup and it was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We have a temporary in-house person. I recommend having a temporary in-house person.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Turbonomic.

We chose VMware for their product, their environment, and the confidence level of using the product itself.

What other advice do I have?

The way technology works, you've got to catch up. If you're basically staying in a legacy environment, and everything is moving rapidly, you've got to stay ahead of the game.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: customer support.

My recommendation: If you're looking to minimize your downtime, your troubleshooting, and the amount of resources being used in order to look at logs and troubleshoot an issue, this is the solution.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user730227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Cognizant technology solutions
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Creates faster access and searchability of the logs for troubleshooting

What is most valuable?

Login site gives you the opportunity to collect logs from all of your hypervisors and your virtual servers, then put them all in one location and make them searchable.

How has it helped my organization?

It's faster access and searchability of the logs for troubleshooting.

What needs improvement?

Better integration into VRB.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We did our due diligence, studied best practices, read the documentation, prepared a plan, presented the plan, and everybody understood what's going to happen.

It is best to have a contingency plan to back out if things go wrong.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability is there. A 10 out of 10.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is about a 10 out of 10.

How is customer service and technical support?

I have not used technical support for this solution.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward. It took about 10 minutes.

What about the implementation team?

We used an in-house team.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Dell EMC, Hitachi, and sometimes Microsoft.

We chose VMware because they have one of the better products on the market for what they do: virtualization.

What other advice do I have?

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor is that they're there when you need them.

For someone looking at this solution: Look deep.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user730296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at American century investments
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Better able to understand our needs for future growth and budgeting purposes

What is most valuable?

Capacity management: the forecasting of capacity.

How has it helped my organization?

We are better able to understand our needs for future growth and budgeting purposes.

What needs improvement?

Price. Honestly, the way it's licensed is challenging.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

So far, it's been okay.

How are customer service and technical support?

It's been good. They are knowledgeable. We can reach the right person.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

As we started moving to more critical applications of this infrastructure, we needed to be able to manage it at a higher level than we had been.

How was the initial setup?

For the most part, it was pretty straightforward. Some of the advanced configurations were a little bit more difficult.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We used Microsoft for monitoring solutions as well, then VMware. We chose VM because it's more integrated with what we're trying to do with the infrastructure.

What other advice do I have?

The most important criteria for selecting a vendor: Functionality of the product, it's got to work, then responsiveness of the support.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user730434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Server Engineer at Christus health
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Enables us to troubleshoot issues and helped us implement our NSX product

What is most valuable?

vRNI taught us to troubleshoot issues and help us implement our NSX product. Therefore, it's been one of the most valuable tools of the product.

How has it helped my organization?

We're in a huge NSX implementation right now and trying to understand each application. vRNI's been very helpful in helping us protect each one of those applications.

What needs improvement?

They are already working on it, which is really nice. It would be the capability of actually identifying certain applications, like SQL, file servers, DNS, AD servers, and making it easier to identify those types of systems.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability for vRNI - it just works. We haven't had any issues with it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is great. We haven't had any issues with the capability of the machines, NSX, or with the implementations of both.

How is customer service and technical support?

Personally, I have not called technical support.

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial setup.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We had an inner engagement, and their engineers highly recommended using the tool, as far as the implementation for NSX.

Before this, we weren't using another solution at all. We're pretty much using VMware for this type of environment.

What other advice do I have?

Support is very important, to be available especially for issues that may be new with the features which we're trying to implement. We tend to request support quite a bit, so support is definitely very important.

I would definitely advise, especially healthcare companies that need to secure their products, NSX using vRNI as their tool. To implement it, I would highly recommend that they invest the time to learn how to use vRNI.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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it_user730260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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​Provides a map of what's going on - on the network

What is most valuable?

  • Provides us a map of what's going on - on our network.
  • Allows us to start microsegmentation.

How has it helped my organization?

The benefits are it gives us insight into our network, which we can't get anywhere else.

It's helping us to scope our firewall rules.

What needs improvement?

Maybe improve the fonts.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's really stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's very scalable.

How are customer service and technical support?

No.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were not previously doing something else. When we were going to NSX, we knew we needed to do this. This is just part of our movement towards that.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the initial setup. It was really straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Look at the following:

  • Stability
  • Interoperability with what you own
  • Price.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

For this, really nobody. Just VMware.

What other advice do I have?

If they have VMware, and they're gonna stick with it, then this is probably the tool they want to look at for their network flow.

Just know what your network is and what you intend to do in terms of segmentation. Know your network, know your environment.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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