OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter vs. vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued

When you start deploying dell servers that caters VMWares, [OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter] is very useful, aside from your main monitoring system, this platforms does the job well. [Its] centralized management of VMWare devices including dell switches, dell storage such as SAN. By this you can group devices or set of devices per branches so you can monitor outages, down time of a device.

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Capacity planing is great, and heat map analysis is phenomenal with its drill-down capabilities and versatility

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• Keep Dell Firmware up to date
• Alerts on Dell-specific items

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• Resources allocation estimates are amazing, this feature allowed us to increase density on our hosts by reclaiming RAM and CPU from over allocated VMs letting us increase the amount of VMs per host. The report was very clear and easy to understand.
• The planing feature enabled us to gather all the info we needed to plan hardware purchases as it showed us, with our current rate of deployment, when we would reach capacity in or environment.
• The heat maps provided excellent drill down capabilities allowing for proactively resolving potential issues.

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• Response time is slowed down when too many devices are enrolled
• User management to allow or limit access per user
• Push down approach update to all enroll or selected devices

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• It would be nice to be able to make configuration changes either directly in vCenter Operations Manager or have it link back to the correct locations in vCenter.

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Support has always been very good with vCenter Operations Manager.

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I have never used either of the two above-listed competitors, but we have sold both of them where customers find them to be a better fit. I've gotten to know the products fairly well this way, despite never using them myself. I think they're pretty similar. Zerto is definitely an up-and-comer who is making some pretty big waves in this place.

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SolarWinds as an overall tool is much more flexible. It allows you to perform tasks based on events, whereas the vCenter Operations Manager monitors your environment. SolarWinds costs more.

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• OpenManage has saved us time by making the upgrade process more efficent
• OpenManage has saved us downtime by allowing us to keep parts of our environment running while doing upgrades

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• +Helped us identify a performance issue where our cluster was under-sized. We were able to order new hosts to bring performance in-line with expectations.
• +Saved us from purchasing a third-party monitoring tool.
• No negative impact.

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