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 has proven to be a reliable tool not just for backups but also for general hypervisor management."
"Veeam One is easy to use. You don't need to get very technical or specific class training. Anyone can start using it."
"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."
"Setting up Veeam is easy, and it's portable, too."
"For me, the most important feature is alerting."
"The tool is a stable backup solution."
"The stability of Veeam ONE is good."
"I don't have to go back and forth between different applications to get the report I need."
"The scalability is good."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"It's easy to use."
"They need to support more platforms."
"Veeam ONE should make available notifications through SMS."
"Backup management features are crucial for ensuring the reliability and automation of backup processes."
"It is not easy to navigate, especially with the numerous reports available."
"There is a lot of information, so maybe the dashboards could consolidate it."
"Perhaps the interface could be improved, though it has always been fine for me."
"I think Veeam ONE should be included in the base product instead of as an add-on because customers tend to look for simple solutions that are integrated."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"Given that I've been using version seven, it seems that some of the bugs I faced during that version have already been addressed in subsequent updates. Although I haven't personally tested them yet, it appears that these issues have been resolved. In version seven, there was a problem with the network interface not responding due to certain configurations not being properly filtered. However, in version eight, this requirement has been minimized, so the mentioned bug is less likely to occur. Instead of solely addressing these fixes in newer versions, it might be beneficial for them to consider applying these improvements to the older versions as well. This approach could prevent users from feeling compelled to upgrade to version eight solely to avoid encountering the issue, and instead provide updates for version seven users."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
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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