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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LiveAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A

    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AvRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.

    $10

    per month per core

    Pricing
    LiveActionvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $16
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $128
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $1500
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per month per core
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LiveActionvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    LiveActionvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of LiveAction and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    LiveAction
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    14% below category average
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis7.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of LiveAction and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    LiveAction
    -
    Ratings
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LiveActionvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LiveActionvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BlueCat
    From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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    Discontinued Products
    It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
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    Pros
    BlueCat
    • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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    Discontinued Products
    • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
    • Automation of IT management
    • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
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    Cons
    BlueCat
    • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
    • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
    • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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    • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
    • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
    • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
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    Support Rating
    BlueCat
    Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    BlueCat
    There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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    Discontinued Products
    VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
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    Return on Investment
    BlueCat
    • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
    • Great reporting features for executives.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
    • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
    • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
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