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."I think Veeam ONE is great as it is, it does everything I need."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward for me."
"As a manager, I find Veeam One's reporting service to be very helpful."
"The monthly reports come complete with graphs and summaries, it's really helpful."
"The tool is a stable backup solution."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"For me, the most important feature is alerting."
"The solution offers a very straightforward setup."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"The solution saves cost."
"It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution. It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"It's easy to use."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"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."
"The threshold could be easier to configure."
"I face difficulties when trying to deploy Veeam ONE because my active directory restricts some particular rights."
"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."
"Veeam ONE should make available notifications through SMS."
"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."
"One common customer complaint is that Veeam, not just Veeam ONE, has become increasingly complex over time. This means that it is now very feature-rich, which can be challenging for some users to navigate and understand. There is a need for more education on how to use the GUI and all of the available features. Even regular users of Veeam may struggle to utilize the new features, which makes it more challenging for backup administrators to manage their backups. The platform is not becoming simpler, but rather, it is becoming more complicated over time."
"Not highly customizable."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"The cost could always be lower."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
Veeam ONE is ranked 5th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Veeam ONE is rated 8.2, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Veeam ONE writes "A tool useful to monitor infrastructures and for backup purposes that needs to improve its deployment process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Veeam ONE is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware Aria Operations, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Zabbix and Nutanix Prism, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and OpenVZ.
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