When Broadcom acquired Symantec our pricing and customer service for SEPM went to shit. I’d be looking to switch if I was on VMWare. If it’s a small deployment, probably to native hyper-V and windows. Larger deployment, I’d be looking to change careers
Last month we had a failover cluster that we had to upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2016. Ever since the upgrade the storage performance (connected to a SAN via iSCSI) had tanked and backups were basically causing the whole house of cards to tumble.
Eventually found that the MPIO policy on the cluster disk had been reset by the in-place upgrade (bad practice to upgrade in place I know but we are a small shop and I don’t exactly have the time to rebuild another cluster from scratch)
But that week after the upgrade was a total shitshow
Expensive as hell, it insists I use their insecure office add on “PDF Maker” but people around here find it worth $350 a year to be able to merge pdf’s from the context menu so I’m stuck trying to find ways to support it with out compromising the network. I hate the adobe suite
I used Zabbix for about 3 years in our environment before the pandemic necessitated that we have a more mobile solution for RMM and we rolled our SNMP monitoring into our RMM.
I had all the same complaints that you have and honestly I spent more time maintain our zabbix server and nodes than I did on actionable alerts from them. When we switched I was ready to make the switch for sure
I’ve been a big proponent of HP Procurve switches in the enterprise but if cloud connectivity is going to be a requirement then I’d rather just go in with Cisco/meraki.
Avoiding the confusing licensing/connectivity requirements were why I used procurve in the first place