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    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Workload Optimization Manager drives continuous health in dynamic data center environments, whether on-premises or in a public cloud. The real‑time decision engine provides automatable actions that adjust infrastructure resources at every layer of the stack to ensure the performance of your applications. When your infrastructure is continuously performant, your teams can focus on what matters to the business.N/A

    VMware SRM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)VMware SRM
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)VMware SRM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Cisco
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)VMware SRM
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling8.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)VMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)VMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Cisco Workload Optimization is there to allow tasks to be optimized, prioritized, and facilitated to increase the company's growth and expansion direction. More so, Cisco Workload Optimization brings the ideals of solid engagement, where the collaboration comes in, and the innovations among other procedures suit the company's needs. Cisco Workload Optimization has a consistent approach to controlling the resources for a specific job role.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    It's quite well suited for a medium to large size VMWare virtualization infrastructure where your production infrastructure can be failed over to a disaster recovery site. There are other cheaper options for a smaller budget business. Also, for a non mission critical virtual infrastructure, you can simply use VM backups such as Veeam backups for restoring failed VMs
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Communication
    • Organization
    • User friendly
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Easy configuration and setup.
    • Testing of a particular VM or datastore with several VMs is easy.
    • Auto configuration of IPs makes the process even easier.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Wish it had alerts easier to access.
    • More non tech user friendly
    • Cost a little less
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It’s unfortunate, but more and more, the quality of VMware’s products and the technical support teams behind them has degraded significantly. We have opened several support requests within the last few months and ended up resolving a large majority ourselves due to the poor performance of their remote teams.
    • VMware is suffering from the same illness that’s affecting multiple U.S. technology firms, in that their focus has shifted completely away from their customers and moved to pleasing investors. In doing so, clients suffer because they do not get properly tested products and the support teams behind them are very weak and overwhelmed.
    • We worked close to a month trying to get SRM V6.5 to work. We have worked with many previous versions of SRM in the past while using HP EVAs, NetApps and Hitachi arrays, and we can honestly say that we are greatly disappointed with this release and the company.
    • We escalated right up to engineering, but their response times were brutally slow; the technicians were juniors at best.
    • As a technology leader, the last thing you want during a DR is to be dealing with a company that just can't deliver. SRM is not cheap, and you would expect much better products and support from VMware.
    • If you are comparing products, try other companies like Veeam... We ended up using them instead, the setup and execution was easy and seamless, and they answered all our questions quickly and efficiently. They actually do care about their clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    VMware by Broadcom
    - easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco WOM now is integrated with Cisco Intersight so you will have in one dashboard the benefits of these solutions. In order to get all in one dashboard, Cisco recommends integrating through their secure API.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Entertained Veeam, however with SRM's tight integration and "brand" it was an easy decision. The cost for a 25 server license also weighed in the decision for using a VMware product. Plus I am a VMware fan and feel this option to go with SRM will transcend jobs.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Increased time to value
    • More efficient processes
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
    • We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
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