We performed a comparison between Veeam ONE and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, IBM, Nutanix and others in Virtualization Management Tools."Veeam ONE is the best and the most mature solution for hypervisors and physical machines."
"The installation is pretty straightforward."
"The product is very straightforward and very easy to use from the client-side."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Storage gateway feature is very flexible."
"The best feature of Veeam ONE to me is the infrastructure analysis that you can perform before deploying a backup environment. You can put in your backup requirements, for example, repository files and improvements on your VMware side, to ensure that it runs optimally. Pricing for Veeam ONE is also cheaper than VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) which is a direct competitor in the ops space, so this is another advantage of the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Setting up Veeam is easy, and it's portable, too."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"The product offers good stability."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"There is a bug that prevents enabling the restore button, which is hectic."
"We'd like to see them add more custom templates."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation capabilities. It could integrate with automation services to automatically resolve identified issues rather than simply providing instructions to the user."
"I am highly dissatisfied with their customer support approach."
"I've never considered what improvements Veeam needs, and I haven't asked our customers if there is any room for improvement. As the manager, I only see the reports."
"In future releases, I would like to see the solution provide auto resolution and auto relocation of resources."
"Agent backups could be better. I have many problems with agent backups, particularly on Linux and MySQL databases. MySQL works well with Microsoft products but not with other products. The database backups are not working correctly, and we are losing business. I am not getting any support; administration is also a significant problem."
"It would be better if the solution presented the number of servers and the success rate on the dashboard."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
Veeam ONE is ranked 5th in Virtualization Management Tools with 28 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Veeam ONE is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Veeam ONE writes "Useful growth tracking, overview tracking, but increasingly complex". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". Veeam ONE is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware Aria Operations, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Nutanix Prism and Zabbix, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and OpenVZ.
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