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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller vs. HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager, or DCNM) is a monitoring and management platform. It is optimized for large organizations and enterprises, particularly with data centers.N/A

    HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A
    Pricing
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Chose HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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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 Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller and HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Feature
    Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller
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    Ratings
    HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Support Rating
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    9.3
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Best to manage your vxlan VPN fabric in terms of configuration in terms of configurations available
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy.
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    Pros
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Multivendor flexibility.
    • Topology map features.
    • Backup configurations.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Cisco
    That’s a great automation suits and easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Security has been a great paramount from day one
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Easy to implement
    • Easy to configure
    • Overall good monitoring tool
    Incentivized
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