Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. Foglight

The Dell EMC Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is well suited to handle handles filesystem that maybe be encrypted on disk and mounted on demand from an application. There are many storage options, and redeployments are supported. The interference is easy to use even for fewer experienced tech people. The main issue you might have is support if any problems arise.

Incentivized

It really depends on why my colleague is evaluating Foglight. If it is for Database monitoring and management, I highly recommend it. If it is for anything else, I would encourage them to look at others in this space.

Incentivized

• Tracks every change to the Dell EMC Storage Resource Manager infrastructure.
• Allows deploying applications into staging or production environments faster than other solutions.
• You can migrate a multi-host and high-availability topology of Business Suites.

Incentivized

• VMWare Monitoring
• Custom use of scripts and dashboard
• Performance Analysis for Database
• Remote Monitoring for Linux and Windows.

Incentivized

• Price point
• Complex implementation
• Need tech background to understand

Incentivized

• Foglight allows detecting and diagnosing performance problems simplifying hybrid environments, it is a solution that has perfect features which work in a flexible and intuitive way, it allows database performance in a safe and fast way. It works perfectly with nothing else to add.

Incentivized

Compared to others, Dell provides a more sophisticated software and the UI is simply so smooth. It feels native and Dell understands the requirement pretty well. Analytics ia simple and easy to use. Creating complex dashboards is a easy task for somone who knows around the tool. Only downside is the price.

Incentivized

Foglight was chosen years ago as a replacement for Groundwork. After 2.5 years of implementing Groundwork things were still not complete and the decision to go with a more formalized solution was made. Foglight installed easily and quickly nearly across the board and the full implementation for complex infrastructure was completed (with no Professional Services) by us in under 4 months. Nagios is a wonderful toolkit but you have to be ready to build what you need. It's flexibility and breadth are excellent features but with that comes the need to define things very tightly lest you embark on the project that never ends (see above about Groundwork). Dynatrace is an excellent APM tool and has advanced analytics but as a general infrastructure monitoring tool it is actually very expensive and to be honest does not have the same focus and full feature set that it does on it's APM (which to be fair is it's wheelhouse). vROPs (we also have) is a wonderful tool but focused (and rightly so) on satisfying the VMware engineers in the crowd and doesn't put itself out there too far to make things palatable for the non-engineering crowd.

Incentivized

• Task management for teams
• Storage distribution in efficient manner
• Analytics to understand usage

Incentivized

• Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
• Positive - minimizes business interruption
• Positive - limits disruptions to productivity

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