DX Performance Management vs OpenText Cloud Optimizer comparison

Broadcom and OpenText are both solutions in the Infrastructure Capacity Planning category. Broadcom is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #3. Broadcom holds a 14.5% mindshare in ICP, compared to OpenText’s 16.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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96% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and OpenText Cloud Optimizer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (43rd), DX NetOps (2nd)

OpenText Cloud Optimizer

Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Infrastructure Capacity Planning category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 14.5%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Cloud Optimizer is 16.4%, down from 21.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure Capacity Planning Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DX Performance Management	14.5%
OpenText Cloud Optimizer	16.4%
Other	69.1%

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reviewer1810893

Senior IT Operations Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Flexibility and detailed performance stats enable effective network monitoring

Spectrum is very good at monitoring all network faults and configurations. It enables me to take action based on network issues. The Performance Management provides detailed network performance stats, including CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth. Additionally, Spectrum is flexible and allows me to organize and treat devices uniquely without impacting other devices.

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Prem Raj

Senior Information Technology Security Officer at alpha

Gives an overview of the entire infrastructure and helps with the optimization and capacity planning

It is not very easy, but it is also not very complex. You need good technical expertise to understand how to work with the product. The deployment duration depends on the scope of work. It depends on how much integration you need. This product can integrate with many other applications. It depends on whether you want to integrate or whether you want a standalone system. It depends on how many different systems you need to capture the data from. Do you want to integrate with a reporting product? Depending upon that, you have to decide. The product installation takes one or two days, but you need to define a use case for what you want to do after the installation.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The capability where not only the traditional SNMP information is captured but also the netflow data; who is consuming the data on the WAN, and voice-related information, is helpful. The voice quality makes it very easy for first- and second-line operators to see where the issue is, and who is impacted."

"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."

"The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement."

"There is another component of the tool called Network Flow Analysis. It gives us the ability to troubleshoot issues which do not appear right away."

"The out-of-the-box dashboards are valuable, in terms of being able to visualize performance data in ways that we haven't in the past."

"When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue."

"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."

"When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."

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"It helps to plan how you can scale up your environment, and it gives an overview of your entire infra."

"Easy access to resources of our cloud."

Cons

"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."

"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."

"There are some areas in the technology right now, like with VMs, where we are lacking with our abilities to get inside the VM to monitor traffic within the machine."

"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."

"Policies could be improved."

"We experience disconnections between the solutions own components."

"DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary data center. It's crucial to maintain consistent monitoring of the devices during this transition. Therefore, I require continuous, 24/7 monitoring of my system using this tool."

"It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics."

More DX Performance Management cons

"It needs to improve the capacity planning."

"It should have more reporting features. It will help in getting more reporting information."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"It depends on the agreement that you have with Micro Focus. It can be a year-based term. It can be perpetual, or it can be subscription-based. Depending upon whether you're looking for an annual or a multi-year contract, the pricing would vary. It also depends on whether you are looking for standard support or premium support."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Marketing Services Firm

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Company Size

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Small Business

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Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	25

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.

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What is your primary use case for DX Performance Management?

I have used Spectrum for monitoring all network faults, configurations, and troubleshooting network issues. It provides network performance stats, such as CPU, memory, and interface bandwidth detai...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Performance Management?

I would recommend this solution based on its functionality, flexibility, customizability, and ease of use. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I am just a customer and not a par...

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Also Known As

CA Performance Management

Micro Focus Cloud Optimizer, HPE vPV, HPE Cloud Optimizer

Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom

OpenText Cloud Optimizer is a unified capacity management and performance tool that enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize hybrid cloud environments quickly, efficiently, and with rapid results. Cloud Optimizer's unified dashboard provides comprehensive insights into capacity, performance, and health across hybrid cloud environments. With this consolidated insight you can optimize your infrastructure and quickly solve virtualization and cloud performance issues. Cloud Optimizer works with multiple hypervisors and private and public cloud environments including Micro Focus Helion OpenStack, VMware, Microsoft, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen, OpenStack, and Amazon Web Services.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

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