We performed a comparison between Veeam ONE and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Veeam ONE effectively centralizes the view of different tools."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward for me."
"Veeam One is a centralized management and centralized reporting tool. The tool has supportive infrastructure to create specialised applications and some server application. You can add all the resources and infrastructure. You will get the reports, can easily manage and monitor any feature."
"Veeam One is easy to use. You don't need to get very technical or specific class training. Anyone can start using it."
"The feature that we have found most valuable is its traffic plan. The traffic plan is very good."
"I think Veeam ONE is great as it is, it does everything I need."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"vRealize Operations Manager is the most valuable feature, but it is not embedded in vSphere; it is a part of vSphere. It is used for forecasting and checking the consumption of CPU, memory, and other resources. It has the capability to do the forecast based on the history and give advice on consumption. VMware vSphere is easy to use and easy to implement. Its learning curve is not sharp. Any engineer with little or medium knowledge of hypervisors and virtualizations can implement vSphere with a few clicks."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure. Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"The appliance doesn't have a domain. If there was a competitor with a domain, I'd likely use them."
"When you have to renew the licenses you sometimes have some trouble getting rid of the old one and reassigning it to the new one. That's an aspect that could run smoother and could be better."
"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."
"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."
"They need to support more platforms."
"If you don't have technical knowledge about these services, monitoring the virtual machines is hard."
"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."
"Veeam ONE could be improved if it had a better data recovery feature."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The quality of support could be better."
"The cost can be better."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
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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