Fortra Performance Navigator vs. vRealize Operations (discontinued)

The best suited scenarios are disk feature trends based on the previous months usage. The product will hold the good amount of historical data [making] it easy to compare the data as needed. The before and after analysis [makes] it easy to identify the difference between those days. That particular report helped me a lot to compare the data.

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With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.

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• Disk growth trends.
• Library size change difference.
• CPU, DASD, Memory usage and the Jobs count on month wise.
• Top takers (Jobs) of the CPU%.

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• Troubleshooting Workbench to work on multiple data at one place.
• Datacenter Resources/ Cost Optimization Suggestions.
• Centralized Management between on-premises and cloud resources.
• Customized management packs.

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• It's a good tool and no such concerns.
• The product support is awesome.

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• If we can integrate it with other products, then it will be quite useful. Integration with some network devices and storage devices would be useful.
• It basically supports the system with big-size VM disks; it should be made available to support other devices and hardware as well.
• They may also need to improve on complex configuration.

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It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.

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The support is pretty good however some of the KB articles still reference different versions of the product so it can be hard to find answers to common questions

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IBM i Doctor will also provide the best results since I am using the Performance Navigator for a longer period and its graphical representation attracted me more and [is] easy to understand. Also, the technical support was awesome. [When showing] the disk and CPU stats to the management (non-technical people), the product is very helpful since it is easy to understand the graphs.

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We are a VMware shop and need monitoring from VMware. Also, I am not the decision maker here. I believe because of being a VMware shop we choose VRO and also may be my company got a great deal. I like this product although there is a lot of stuff to improve

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• Disk growth analysis will help to identify the growth and to add the disk if required.
• CPU utilization report helped us a lot to find out the constant top takers.
• Memory pools utilization report helped a lot to understand the system performance.

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• We believe that the ability to preplan deployments with vRealize has proven its return on investments.
• Our troubleshooting time has been reduced with vrealize because its constantly collecting performance data. typically vrealize will tell us cause of fault before we can determine it ourselves.

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