We performed a comparison between HPE OneView and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives us a view of all our servers, which we did not have before in real-time."
"Gives us one platform to monitor and access or configure all the servers or the 3PAR, etc."
"The solution's technical support was great...The initial setup of HPE OneView was easy."
"It's rather simple to use, and that's very important for us."
"The best part is that you can integrate a two-way network. Earlier we could not manage the storage and ToR switch. Now we can create a LAN with our storage without any interface. In terms of switch management, it is now easy to understand the current configuration. It provides centralized management. It provides a single pane, and you can easily do all updates in one shot. It is a great product."
"Deploys faster new virtual services."
"We have the dashboard up on a big screen, and you can actually see when things go wrong or if there are any faults with any of the servers. The backup is automated as well, so the appliance is quite good."
"Firmware compliance is one of the most valuable features."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"Zabbix is very easy to implement."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"It's a flexible solution."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"We've had issues, for example, with RAM."
"One thing which is missing is that you can't actually log a support call yourself."
"I saw, maybe three years ago or two years ago here, or in Barcelona, at the HPE Discover conference, a feature that you can update Clusterware with VMware. But the feature is still not live in production. Currently, you have to do all the firmware updates and then you have to do the VMware updates. So you have two reboots and it would be better if it was just one."
"Technical support is not very good. The engineers do not know a lot about the product, even when asked simplistic questions."
"There was a feature called HPE cloud manager, but now it is owned by Micro Focus. HPE should make a cloud optimizer again."
"Those features, coming in version 4, that we're looking for are the discovery, primarily. But I think the scope-based access control is of interest, although, we didn't see any directory integration, so that, in itself, seems like it's still limited."
"It would be better if we can add every HPE device to OneView, such as MSA, as well as the other servers like the DL server and ML server."
"They can improve reporting and provide more customized reports. Currently, reporting is a bit limited. It can be complex to learn and manage for beginners. Because of my experience, I find it comfortable to manage, which might not be the case with beginners. It would be good if they can make it a little bit easier to understand. They can provide a more graphical view of connectivity and other things. Their technical support can also be improved."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition. It's very high, for example, compared to something like Microsoft Teams."
HPE OneView is ranked 17th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 80 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 101 reviews. HPE OneView is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE OneView writes "Provides firmware compliance and the ability to connect to iPO". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". HPE OneView is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Dell CloudIQ, Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our HPE OneView vs. Zabbix report.
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