vCenter Operations Manager or another monitoring program?

I have budget to buy a monitoring system and am leaning toward vCOPs. I like the output I get with it but want to know if there is a better one for the money. I sorta go on the philosophy "If the infrastructure vendor builds it, you should get some better support and integration than with a 3rd party". Is that safe in this instance?

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SimonD.

How about giving VMTurbo Operations Manager a look? You also have Veeam One Free Edition and even Solarwinds Virtualisation Manager.

We use vCOPS, amongst other things (loving that Enterprise Plus \ vCloud Suite Enterprise license) at work and it's great for monitoring but we actually use SCOM for the Windows based infrastructure and are looking at integrating with products such as TSDB\OpenView and Nagios but using an aggregator to consolidate all the data in to a single pane of glass.

There are so many different options out there that it can make things even more difficult but I seem to recall seeing a demo of VMTurbo in the past and being blown away by it.

blargoe

If you already have SCOM in your environment, the VEEAM MP for SCOM is pretty good.

I like Solarwinds VM Manager as well.

You can eval both for a limited time I believe.