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We performed a comparison between Densify, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, and Veeam ONE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs.""One would be the automatic rebalancing of the environment. That was one feature which helped. With that, we could improve our efficiency of our VMware infrastructure.""I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel.""The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues.""The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status.""The Control Console is an incredible way to give a quick view of current capacity utilization allowing technical people to drill down quickly and allowing business/management people to get a quick overview of the environment.""The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis.""The solution's tech support is excellent."

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"SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a great tool that is easy to use...It is a stable solution.""The most valuable features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager are the non-Windows servers' monitoring and capacity planning."

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"The most valuable features are the notifications, which give us failure alerts for some infrastructure within the backup, and the reporting is excellent.""Veeam ONE has proven to be a reliable tool not just for backups but also for general hypervisor management.""The solution offers a very straightforward setup.""The solution is really easy and straightforward to use.""It is easy to set up initially.""The solution's customer service is good.""I like the tool's backup.""The monthly reports come complete with graphs and summaries, it's really helpful."

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Cons
"It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box.""Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level.""Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented.""A closer integration to the service management processes.""Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine.""Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries.""In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools.""The solution's stability is the primary concern for me."

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"The problem or issue with the product is related to its pricing.""The SolarWinds Virtualization Manager platform in general can have a better response time in the performance."

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"It is not easy to navigate, especially with the numerous reports available.""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.""Veeam One has its ransomware monitoring, but it's based on static parameters.""There is a bug that prevents enabling the restore button, which is hectic.""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.""The support, reporting part and customization should all be improved.""They need to support more platforms.""The solution is not very good at backing up the physical Linux systems."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
  • "Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
  • "Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
  • "There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
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  • "The is an annual subscription needed to use this solution."
  • "The maintenance and support are a part of the package, meaning it is included in the product's price."
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  • "For what it does, the price is acceptable."
  • "If you have Veeam Backup and Replication with the essential license then this solution is free. If you were to purchase Veeam ONE by itself it is priced cheaper than competitors."
  • "The licenses are code-based or server-based for Veeam ONE. The last version is 12, and it is host-based, I don't like to move to a code-based solution."
  • "Veeam has been raising its prices in the last two years, so it's now lacking some competitiveness in pricing."
  • "I have not used the resale license in our testing environments. Sometimes, our customers used the trial license for 30 days and so on."
  • "I don't pay for the solution, so I can't comment on the cost."
  • "The cost is based on the number of core servers."
  • "Our licensing cost is $200 a year."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's tech support is excellent.
    Top Answer:Densify is not a stable tool. Every time the support gets investigated, it takes much time to get refreshed.
    Top Answer:We are using Densify to produce reports and to get recommendations that can contribute to the area of our expertise.
    Top Answer:SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a great tool that is easy to use...It is a stable solution.
    Top Answer:The maintenance and support are a part of the package, meaning it is included in the product's price.
    Top Answer:The problem or issue with the product is related to its pricing. The solution can be made free, especially for those who… more »
    Top Answer:Veeam ONE should make available notifications through SMS.
    Top Answer:We use Veeam ONE for our VMware backups and our VMs in VMware.
    Top Answer:Veeam ONE is a straightforward solution and compatible with almost all hardware.
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    Also Known As
    SolarWinds VMAN
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    Overview

    Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.

    Densify works by:

    • Establishing application demand patterns that are based on business cycles, seasonality, peaks, valleys, and other variables.

    • Building normalized models of cloud supply and ingesting the entire cloud catalog and latest technologies.

    • Considering numerous factors, such as performance benchmarks, cost, technical rules, tags, and policies. The solution uses business and functional tags, operational realities, and granular policy control.

    Densify Features

    Densify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Integration with management and provisioning systems
    • Machine learning-based analytics
    • Automated resource optimization
    • App owner collaboration
    • Tailored efficiency reports
    • Observability
    • Controllability
    • Capacity optimization
    • Policy driven, automated governance
    • VM placement
    • Predictive analytics

    Densify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Densify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Automated resource management: Densify provides your organization with automated resource management at scale, with elasticity at an affordable low cost.
    • Full stack visibility: The Densify solution offers full stack visibility with improved efficiency by determining container size and node resources.
    • Financial visibility: In addition to full stack visibility, one of Densify’s other advantages is that it offers full financial visibility and cost intelligence for both reporting as well as chargebacks.
    • Resizing and rebalancing: Densify analyzes your private cloud infrastructure, providing resizing and rebalancing recommendations.
    • Helps you choose the right host environment: Densify automatically routes workloads to the best hosting environment based on detailed workload requirements. For workloads not requiring immediate placement, it reserves capacity to ensure it is available when required.
    • A true SaaS implementation: Because Densify is a true SaaS implementation, there is no software to maintain or to learn.
    • Better for IT finance: The solution is good for IT finance because it collects and analyzes your detailed billing data, giving you visibility into your spending, what services you’re buying, and how to better manage your costs. In addition, it can also generate reports that cover your spending and your utilization of reservations and reserved instances and savings plans.
    • Reduce risk and costs: Machine learning-based analytics help your organization optimize consumption to eliminate waste and overprovisioning while ensuring performance.
    • Cost-efficient: The Densify solution is cost-efficient, helping you drastically reduce per-processor software license costs by placing workloads intelligently.
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager reduces downtime by 53% and time spent troubleshooting by 59%. Analyze and remediate VM performance problems by viewing active, critical, and warning issues in your environment.

    Veeam ONE, part of Veeam Availability Suite, provides a comprehensive monitoring and analytics solution for backup, virtual and physical environments. With support for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agents, as well as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV, Veeam ONE delivers deep, intelligent monitoring, reporting, and automation through interactive tools and intelligent learning, identifying and resolving real customer problems before they begin:

    • Monitoring & Reporting: Achieve 24x7 real-time monitoring, reporting, and alerting for backup and virtual environments while avoiding downtime via timely notifications. Maintain compliance and meet service level objectives, evaluate backup infrastructure performance to ensure configurations meet best practices, and track, monitor and assign alarms to applications running in VMs.

    • Capacity planning and chargeback: Gain visibility into the costs of compute, storage and backup repository resources to provide charge-back, forecast resource utilization trends and utilize built-in modeling and resource overcommit tracking to aid with forecasting.

    • Intelligent automation and diagnostics: Employ built-in intelligence to identify and resolve common infrastructure and software misconfigurations via built-in intelligence and improve response times through.

    Sample Customers
    AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
    Elliot Health System
    Business & Legal Resources Inc., Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, Alliance Healthcare, Poulin Grain Inc., Linear Technology, Northwestern University, ARKEMA, Sogegross, City of Lynchburg
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company23%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Government11%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
    Retailer10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise73%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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