MxToolBox vs. VMware Skyline

MxToolBox

MxToolBox

19 Reviews and Ratings

VMware Skyline

VMware Skyline

6 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MxToolBox	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	MxToolbox in Austin supports global Internet operations by providing what they describe as free, fast and accurate network diagnostic and lookup tools. The vendor boasts millions of technology professionals using their tools to help diagnose and resolve a wide range of infrastructure issues.	N/A
VMware Skyline	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	VMware Skyline is a suite of products that provide proactive findings and recommendations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize Operations and Horizon that aim to provide proactive intelligence that helps users avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests.	N/A

Pricing

MxToolBox

VMware Skyline

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
MxToolBox	VMware Skyline
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	MxToolBox	VMware Skyline
Considered Both Products	MxToolBox Verified User Anonymous Chose MxToolBox MxToolBox is a bit more pricy, but it is an industry leader in email delivery and provides first level diagnostics of external DNS records Incentivized Helpful? Kevin McCusker Global Information Technology Manager Chose MxToolBox Browser-based always makes it faster to use than some of its competitors. A top-notch tool that is always up to date. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MxToolBox I have not used to competing products Incentivized Helpful? JL Jason Lane Network Administrator Chose MxToolBox MXToolBox is easier to use probably because I am more familiar with it. I have used DNSStuff several times to compare results, which usually are very similar. The main drawback for DNSStuff is that each tool is a download rather than browser-based, and I would just prefer that … Incentivized Helpful? Manishh Arora Bypass Network Services Limited Chose MxToolBox Easy user interface, option of technical support Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MxToolBox MxToolBox provides a great set of tools that separate it from the competition. I have not found an app with such a comprehensive set of tools similar to MxToolBox. Incentivized Helpful? UK Umair Ali Khan Network Administrator Chose MxToolBox we have not used or evaluated any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MxToolBox While I do not use other tools as this one provides everything i need. I find that MXToolbox provides a better experience through their clean UI, there is not a flood of popups, or other unrelated information that impacts the trustworthy nature of the web site. Other Solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MxToolBox This product was really too specific to MS Exchange and did not uncover many of the other issues that might be causing email issues. Incentivized Helpful?	VMware Skyline Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware Skyline VMware Skyline has a strong Network Performance Monitoring support. It can also automatically and securely collects, aggregates, and analyzes product usage data which proactively identifies potential problems and helps VMware Technical Support Engineers improve the resolution … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware Skyline I've used other products such as VMAN and such yet Skyline is different. This is not aimed at your virtual machine's internal usage but at the VMware / Hypervisor level. This looks and monitors at hardware drivers, VMtools versions, and VM hardware versions. If you have … Incentivized Helpful? CH Chris Hein Systems Engineer Chose VMware Skyline I'm not sure what to compare against since I'm not aware of any competing products. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	MxToolBox	VMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	MxToolBox	VMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend	The site/product is well suited for a quick and free tool to diagnose any first-level external DNS and/or email-related issues. The monitoring tool and reports is a good first line of alerting when an email issue arises, so it can be dealt with in a timely manner, as a free service Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Well suited to analyze DDoS attacks on my application. This helped me to gain visibility into the traffic. Enhanced reactive and proactive support, Privacy and Security, Dashboard view, Inventory, Proactive findings, Skyline log assist, Upgrade recommendations & Operational Summary Report (OSR). Its Holistic view and Integrated reporting also helps a lot. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Dns records population Email blacklisting details SMTP diagnostics and real time analysis Incentivized Manishh Arora Bypass Network Services Limited Read full review	Easy setup Stable Data collection Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Adding the ability to send test messages from the site It is possible to create a temporary inbox to check the receipt of e-mails Dark mode Incentivized Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development Read full review	Sometimes the recommendations do not make sense. Sometimes the advice is general, but not for us. Incentivized CH Chris Hein Systems Engineer Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's super easy to use. Incentivized CH Chris Hein Systems Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	MXToolBox is easier to use probably because I am more familiar with it. I have used DNSStuff several times to compare results, which usually are very similar. The main drawback for DNSStuff is that each tool is a download rather than browser-based, and I would just prefer that whatever I am using is as up-to-date as possible. I would tend to uninstall the DNSStuff tools right after using them. Incentivized JL Jason Lane Network Administrator Read full review	I've used other products such as VMAN and such yet Skyline is different. This is not aimed at your virtual machine's internal usage but at the VMware / Hypervisor level. This looks and monitors at hardware drivers, VMtools versions, and VM hardware versions. If you have Horizon it will look at versions and current vs minimum driver versions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	On many occasions we have noticed problems and reported then to a client before they knew it was a problem. Customers really appreciate that Keeps our customers coming back to us as they know we help keep an eye on their uptime and availability Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	VMware Skyline has no cost except for the small footprint the appliance VM uses. Zero cap cost, unlimited returns. WIN WIN! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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