NetBrain Technologies vs. VMware Skyline

Although there are many products in the market that provides very simple and easy fault and performance monitoring metrics in notification format, reports and emails etc However NetBrain is a specialized tool when it comes to network issues troubleshooting for various kind of scenarios such as multicasting issues in a site can be detected live and bottle neck can be highlighted by a simple click of troubleshooting button.

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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.

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• Network discovery
• Config comparation
• Runbooks

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• Easy setup
• Stable
• Data collection

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• After every release one or the other things stop working
• API call to create INC's in SNOW,Remedy

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• Sometimes the recommendations do not make sense.
• Sometimes the advice is general, but not for us.

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This is a easly tool that i've worked.

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It's super easy to use.

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The others were cumbersome, slow and there is a huge learning curve for the installation, configuration and just daily monitoring. NetBrain was the easiest of all to setup then let it run and build our network and map it out. Once it was complete, we immediately identified several circuit issues that we were unaware of within our network. With the maps and information gained, we were able to present to [management] and prove a case that we needed larger circuits in several areas.

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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.

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• Network automation is up to date.
• Quicker failure discovery and resolving due to the path discovery.
• Less time spent on documentation.
• Much more details in the documentation.

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• VMware Skyline has no cost except for the small footprint the appliance VM uses.
• Zero cap cost, unlimited returns. WIN WIN!

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