Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

Dell Technologies and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Virtualization Management Tools category. Dell Technologies is ranked #11, while Veeam Software is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 15, 2024

Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter and Veeam Data Platform compete in virtualization management and data protection. Veeam Data Platform is often seen as superior due to its robust features and reliable performance, while Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is highlighted for its cost-effectiveness and straightforward support.

Features: Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter offers efficient integration with VMware environments, streamlined systems management, and cost-effectiveness. Veeam Data Platform provides comprehensive data backup, replication, recovery functionalities, and extensive features that give it a competitive edge.

Room for Improvement: Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter needs enhanced scalability, more intuitive tools, and better integration options. Veeam Data Platform requires better support for newer technologies, improved reporting capabilities, and enhanced scalability for large deployments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is noted for its relatively seamless setup and responsive customer service but faces challenges in complex environments. Veeam Data Platform offers straightforward deployment, robust support, and minimal reported issues.

Pricing and ROI: Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is cost-effective with a positive ROI, particularly for smaller setups. Veeam Data Platform, despite higher initial costs, delivers value through its extensive capabilities and long-term gains. Dell’s solution is appreciated for affordability, while Veeam’s higher investment is justified by its comprehensive offerings.

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IBM Turbonomic

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SubashSubbiah

Assistant Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer, but the reporting on the application layer is lacking

The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis. Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful.

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it_user6405

Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Deploying vSphere Hosts with Dell’s Management Plugin for vCenter

The Dell Management Plugin for vCenter is a paid product from Dell that allows management of the physical infrastructure through the vSphere Windows Client. It’s a nifty tool that provides a lot of functionality if your environment is Dell only and are either 11G and 12G servers (9G/10G are…

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Edward Hore

L3 Infrastructure Engineer at Specsavers

Reliable with good support but needs a better navigation menu

We use Veeam Data to back up our VMware infrastructure Veeam Data Platform is valuable for its stability and the ability to easily contact support for assistance. The support team provides answers whenever we need them. It is also one of the most scalable backup solutions I've worked with. The…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The primary features we have focused on are reporting and optimization."

"It helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single dashboard, allowing us to identify opportunities to improve their current spending."

"Before implementing Turbonomic, we had difficulty reaching a consensus about VM placement and sizing. Everybody's opinion was wrong, including mine. The application developers, implementers, and infrastructure team could never decide the appropriate size of a virtual machine. I always made the machines small, and they always made them too big. We were both probably wrong."

"The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts."

"In our organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond human scale. We would not be able to do the number of actions that Turbonomic takes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. It is humanly impossible with the little micro adjustments that it can make. That is a huge differentiator. If you just figure each action could take anywhere very conservatively from five to 10 minutes to act upon, then you multiply that out by thousands of actions every month, it is easily something where you could say, "I am saving a couple of FTEs.""

"We've saved hundreds of hours. Most of the time those hours would have to be after hours as well, which are more valuable to me as that's my personal time."

"With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past."

"Turbonomic helps us right-size virtual machines to utilize the available infrastructure components available and suggest where resources should exist. We also use the predictive tool to forecast what will happen when we add additional compute-demanding virtual machines or something to the environment. It shows us how that would impact existing resources. All of that frees up time that would otherwise be spent on manual calculation."

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"My experience with the solution's technical support was perfect. They are so knowledgeable, all of them. They don't take any chances."

"Integration with VMware is excellent with very granular recovery."

"The monthly reports come complete with graphs and summaries, it's really helpful."

"Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"My customers find the backup and recovery ease of use is the most beneficial feature."

"The encryption password is used to protect the backup files. Even if someone gains access to the backup job or files, they won't be able to utilize them without the password."

"The most valuable aspect is its reliability in recovering any replaceable data in the event of server issues in a production environment."

"One thing we like about the product is that it's good and not as expensive as similar products. Right now, there are different ways to back up your information—you can back up directly to a disk or the cloud. It allows you to have various kinds of repositories."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement [with] upgrades. We have deployed the newer version, version 8 of Turbonomic. The problem is that there is no way to upgrade between major Turbonomic versions. You can upgrade minor versions without a problem, but when you go from version 6 to version 7, or version 7 to version 8, you basically have to deploy it new and let it start gathering data again. That is a problem because all of the data, all of the savings calculations that had been done on the old version, are gone. There's no way to keep track of your lifetime savings across versions."

"Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement."

"They have a long road map when we ask for certain things that will make the product better. It takes time, but that's understandable because there are other things that are higher on the priority list."

"We're still evaluating the solution, so I don't know enough about what I don't know. They've done a lot over the years. I used Turbonomics six or seven years ago before IBM bought them. They've matured a lot since then."

"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."

"The implementation could be enhanced."

"The reporting needs to be improved. It's important for us to know and be able to look back on what happened and why certain decisions were made, and we want to use a custom report for this."

"Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment."

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"When something breaks, it's not easy for us to fix. I'm running a banking solution at my company and when there's a problem, I need to be proactive and quick to resolve the problem immediately."

"If you don't have technical knowledge about these services, monitoring the virtual machines is hard."

"There is a bug that prevents enabling the restore button, which is hectic."

"There is a lot of room for improvement, but the primary issue we have is that it's not built for the cloud."

"The price can be a bit expensive."

"In the future, I would like to see better support for direct backup to tape."

"There might be room for improvement at the plugin level, specifically concerning application plugins."

"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."

"I would prefer it if the backup console did not require use of a specified program but rather that it could be opened from any website."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."

"In the last year, Turbonomic has reduced our cloud costs by $94,000."

"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."

"It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."

"The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."

"The pricing and licensing are fair. We purchase based on benchmark pricing, which we have been able to get. There are no surprise charges nor hidden fees."

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"The price is pretty cheap for our market."

"The product is competitively priced."

"It's an extremely cost-effective solution."

"It is always nice to get products cheaper. Technically, it saves you a lot of money. If you wanted to buy the same functionality out of vSphere, you would spend thousands to essentially get the same functionality."

"The price of this product is very good."

"When it comes to pricing for a backup solution for data centers, you do not care about the price. We just care about the service and want it to be reliable. In terms of subscription, it really makes sense. When you want to use all the functionalities it is good that Veeam did the subscription-based model, this is what gives it the most strength on the price."

"Room for improvement is actually more in the way of licensing. The really good and useful features are in the Enterprise plus edition, and that one is really expensive."

"We have a yearly perpetual license."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

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Manufacturing Company

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Computer Software Company

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter , Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by companies to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions.

IBM Turbonomic leverages AI to continuously analyze application resource consumption, deliver insights and dashboards, and make real-time adjustments. Common use cases include cloud cost optimization, cloud migration planning, data center modernization, FinOps acceleration, Kubernetes optimization, sustainable IT, and application resource management. By integrating with various cloud platforms, on-premise infrastructures, and containers, IBM Turbonomic provides a holistic view of the environment, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently.

The solution is designed to support complex IT environments, offering actionable insights and automated actions that help IT teams proactively manage application performance and infrastructure resources. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years.

IBM Turbonomic manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers to ensure efficiency and financial impact awareness. It automates resource allocation, balances memory dynamically, and provides robust performance metrics. Users benefit from its ability to prevent resource starvation and offer cost-saving recommendations through continuous management. Executive Dashboards provide insights for cost justification and resource management, making IT operations simpler with AI-driven automation and actionable recommendations.

What are the most important features of IBM Turbonomic?

Automated Resource Allocation: Dynamically allocates resources for optimal performance.
Dynamic Memory Balancing: Adjusts memory allocation to prevent resource shortages.
Right-Sizing: Sizes VMs accurately for Azure and on-prem environments.
Single Platform Management: Manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers.
Proactive Performance Optimization: Continuously optimizes performance to prevent issues.
Kubernetes Support: Enhances container management with robust support.
Cost-Saving Recommendations: Provides actionable tips for reducing expenses.

What benefits should users look for in IBM Turbonomic reviews?

Cost Reduction: Helps minimize expenses through efficient resource management.
Performance Improvement: Enhances application performance by preventing resource starvation.
Detailed Insights: Offers comprehensive analytics to justify costs and resource utilization.
Simplified IT Processes: Uses AI automation to streamline operations.

IBM Turbonomic is implemented across multiple industries, including finance for optimizing peak payroll processing, IT for enhanced virtual server management, and healthcare for reliable performance monitoring. Organizations benefit from its robust automation, ensuring maximum efficiency and cost savings.

Experience the rich, unified and comprehensive management of physical and virtual infrastructure with OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter and the advanced management features of Dell PowerEdge servers. By providing unique cluster-level hardware views directly within vCenter, the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter plug-in enables easy scaling and a streamlined process for applying updates to multiple Dell hosts in a single workflow.

Veeam Data Platform backs up and replicates virtual machines, protects server farms, provides database backup, and delivers disaster recovery solutions. Users utilize it for protecting Office 365 data, ensuring business continuity, monitoring environments, migrating snapshots, and securing data in offsite locations or the cloud.

Veeam Data Platform is recognized for its ease of setup, reliability, and ability to handle diverse IT infrastructures. It is popular among users for its data replication efficiency, fast virtual machine restoration, and robust reporting. With strong integration with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, it ensures scalability and adaptability across environments. The platform supports incremental backups, a comprehensive dashboard for monitoring and reporting, and a smooth recovery process. New features such as malware detection and an immutable Linux repository enhance its security offerings. However, there's room for improvement in full cloud integration, user interface, and support for more storage systems, as well as better documentation, additional automation, detailed reporting, and enhanced technical support. Users also ask for improved data recovery features, reduced pricing, and greater compatibility with non-Windows systems, Oracle, and SAP systems.

What are the most valued features?

Data replication efficiency: Ensures quick and reliable data replication.
Fast VM restoration: Enables quick recovery of virtual machines.
Easy user interface: Simplifies the backup and recovery process.
Robust reporting: Provides comprehensive reporting and monitoring capabilities.
Scalability: Adapts to growing infrastructure needs with ease.
Backup verification: Ensures the integrity of backups.
Adaptability: Works across different environments seamlessly.
Cloud integration: Integrates with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Incremental backup: Supports reliable incremental backups.
Malware detection: Enhances security with new malware detection features.
Immutable Linux repository: Offers an extra layer of security for backups.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Ease of setup: Reduces deployment time and effort.
Reliability: Ensures consistent backup and recovery performance.
Scalable solution: Grows with the business without hassle.
Comprehensive monitoring: Provides full visibility into backup operations.
Cost-effectiveness: Optimizes backup and recovery costs.
Data security: Enhances protection with features like malware detection and immutable repositories.
User-friendly: Removes complexity from backup management.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Veeam Data Platform provides critical data backup and disaster recovery solutions. Organizations in these sectors use Veeam for protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and maintaining business continuity. By leveraging Veeam's robust features and integrations, companies can safeguard their IT infrastructures against data loss and cyber threats.

Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

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Business & Legal Resources Inc., Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, Alliance Healthcare, Poulin Grain Inc., Linear Technology, Northwestern University, ARKEMA, Sogegross, City of Lynchburg

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