We performed a comparison between Veeam ONE and VMware Aria Operations based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Veeam ONE reviewers say that it is a fast, flexible, and mature solution that is useful for monitoring and troubleshooting.
VMware Aria Operations users like its capacity planning abilities and say it has good monitoring and reporting features.
Some users of both solutions note that they would like more integration options.
Comparison Results: Veeam ONE is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and flexible solution that according to users is competitively priced. Whereas, VMware Aria Operations users report that it is an expensive solution.
"Veeam ONE effectively centralizes the view of different tools."
"The solution is really easy and straightforward to use."
"Veeam ONE has proven to be a reliable tool not just for backups but also for general hypervisor management."
"As a manager, I find Veeam One's reporting service to be very helpful."
"The solution offers a very straightforward setup."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the configuration and ease of use."
"The monthly reports come complete with graphs and summaries, it's really helpful."
"I like the backup and backup copy features."
"It tells us when there's an issue with a particular VM or host. It gives us a remediation in order to fix that problem. For example, if there's a shortage of memory or a shortage of CPU, things of that nature, it tells you how to correct that issue."
"It allows me to see how my entire infrastructure is performing in a simplified manner."
"Their technical support is good. We haven't had too much use for them."
"It helped troubleshooting issues with storms of software data that cost a lot of IO."
"It allows us to see the VM, our cluster utilization - the cluster level is what I work on the most. I'm able to see how much is being utilized, the rate of resource utilization, and when it will actually run out."
"The most valuable features are the health tree and the alerts that tell us what's going on from a glance at the dashboard. As far as showing us where the problems are, what's useful is that it gives us suggested solutions to fix them, so that's helpful."
"Based on those usage patterns, we can determine when our best maintenance times are and when we need to scale things up or down."
"It visualizes stuff better, so we can pinpoint or see problems"
"Its reporting feature could be better."
"There is a lot of information, so maybe the dashboards could consolidate it."
"There is a bug that prevents enabling the restore button, which is hectic."
"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."
"I am highly dissatisfied with their customer support approach."
"In future releases, I would like to see the solution provide auto resolution and auto relocation of resources."
"Veeam ONE could improve by having capacity planning, intelligent automatization, and ransomware."
"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."
"I sure don't find the solution to be intuitive or user-friendly. It takes a lot of time to get familiar with the interface. You've got to spend a lot of time poking around there, it's not very user-friendly. There have been improvements over the versions but, even still, there is a pretty steep learning curve for the product, in my opinion. In the latest and greatest version, there has been quite a bit of a step up from the last version, as far as the user interface goes. they are making improvements. So that's positive."
"One way the solution could be improved, in my opinion: management packs, more native management packs with API."
"vROps is user-friendly, but configuration is a little bit hard. It is also hard if you want to customize it for your data center, especially without VMware training. The user interface should be improved so that a new user can easily configure it for his own use."
"There are some metrics that are not included in the canned set, that we've created. They call them super metrics in the tool, where you create your own metric. But the super metrics are not really reliable. It might be because we didn't create them correctly, although we did have help from VMware. They also don't translate into newer versions like a canned metric would. One of them is a vCPU to pCPU ratio. That's one that is missing, which should be very simple for them to collect."
"User-friendly? It could probably use a little work there. It is something of a beast. There's a lot that it can do and getting in there and getting everything working the way you want it to can be challenging."
"We are looking to optimize all the parts. For example, vCenter can be fully deployed automatically, which is not the case with vROps. We can click some next buttons to integrate vCenter and would like these type of features for vROps, if possible."
"It's getting better from what it used to be but it still has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not super-intuitive when you first log into it. To find a lot of the information you need, you have to dig through multiple categories, subcategories, panes, and dashboards and widgets. They've been making it better by presenting some of the most commonly used ones more in the forefront. But some of the more advanced stuff is still pretty difficult to find."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
Veeam ONE is ranked 5th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. Veeam ONE is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. 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 Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". Veeam ONE is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Nutanix Prism and Zabbix, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Nutanix Prism and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. See our VMware Aria Operations vs. Veeam ONE report.
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