HPE OneView vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while VMware is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.4% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.

HPE OneView

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93% willing to recommend

vRealize Network Insight

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and HPE OneView are prominent solutions in network management and infrastructure optimization. vRealize stands out for its comprehensive network visualization and microsegmentation, proving more beneficial for application migrations and network troubleshooting, while HPE OneView excels at centralized management features that simplify server and storage administration through automation.

Features: vRealize Network Insight provides advanced network flow visualization, supports extensive troubleshooting, and enhances network security. HPE OneView offers centralized management, simplifies infrastructure through automation, and supports integration with various enterprise systems.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight can improve in pricing, reporting features, and integration with other network tools. HPE OneView needs better support for non-HPE hardware, faster update processes, and more integration options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both vRealize Network Insight and HPE OneView are primarily deployed on-premises; HPE OneView also provides a hybrid cloud option. Users generally express satisfaction with the technical support experiences for both platforms.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight is perceived as expensive but valuable for its data insights that assist in cloud transitions. HPE OneView offers relatively reasonable pricing, considered cost-effective for reducing management overhead, though it may lack support for older hardware. Both contribute to cost savings and resource optimization.

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HPE OneView vs. vRealize Network Insight

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

HPE OneView

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of HPE OneView is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Trevor Watkins

Server Applications Senior Administrator at Home Hardware Stores Limited

Provides firmware compliance and the ability to connect to iPO

I've been involved in various upgrades. It's pretty easy to set up with vCenter. We just push out an appliance template in vCenter. We run ours on virtual servers. Deployment can be done by just one person. The number of people needed for maintenance will depend on your server inventory. If you have more than 100 servers, you will need three to five people. If you have 500 to 1,000 servers, you will need a team of 10 to 20 people.

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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The stability is very good. I have never had an issue with it over the three years that I have been using it."

"It gives us a view of all our servers, which we did not have before in real-time."

"The solution's initial setup process was easy...The technical support is good...It is a stable product, and we will use it for a long time."

"We cannot function without this solution. "

"It is very stable. We have had no downtime nor issues in approximately a year. "

"Administration-wise it's going to be easier. More smooth and more flexible."

"Gives us one platform to monitor and access or configure all the servers or the 3PAR, etc."

"We could literally swap out a piece of hardware, slide one back into the chassis, and immediately - about three reboots later - it was identical. We didn't have to worry about configuring it, we didn't have to spend any time getting anything into place. It came back and it healed the environment almost immediately."

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"The solution is extremely intuitive and user-friendly. When you log in to the application you are presented with a dashboard that is very reasonable for an initial user, and you can then customize it to your specific needs. But for all the data that we've found, we've only had to go through two or three drill-downs to get into that information."

"We haven't had any complaints about the stability of the solution or heard of any issues. None of our clients have mentioned running into bugs or glitches. There haven't been crashes."

"What's valuable to us is the ability to get a view into the virtual space, which is something we haven't had before. Before, it was done by collecting from network endpoints and extrapolating into the virtual environment. Now it's coming directly from the virtual environment."

"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."

"The most valuable feature is being able to easily see the path that the VM traffic is taking, what ports are in use."

"The most valuable feature is the profiling of the applications for micro-segmentation... It has made the migration to NSX much easier. Most of the sys admins within the smaller silos, they have no idea what ports are needed to run their stuff at all. I am pretty sure the micro-segmentation would never, ever have occurred without it."

"It allows you to see traffic that you couldn't otherwise see, which is traffic within your Layer 3-bounded network, meaning east-west traffic. It's hard to get that any other way."

"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."

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Cons

"I would like to see support for things that aren't in the current generation. We have a lot of 7th and 8th generation hardware."

"We've had a few issues. We just upgraded to the 3.9.0 version. We think that now that we are on that version, hopefully a lot of those things are going to go away for us."

"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."

"The interface is a bit bland. It does its job, but it could have a better interface."

"The solution could add storage, integration services, and end-to-end support for Cisco switches or other competitor products."

"The network configuration part of HPE OneView needs improvement. The solution has way too many features, and there's a need for proper configuration indicators to be put in place."

"The speed and performance of the solution are areas where the product lacks and needs improvement."

"Technical support is not very good. The engineers do not know a lot about the product, even when asked simplistic questions."

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"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."

"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."

"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."

"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."

"The only real improvement they can make is to add more third-party vendors into the environment, mostly switch manufacturers, because it's really limited to Cisco equipment and there are a lot of companies out there other than Cisco."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"When it comes to the government, money is never an issue, so it was excellent in terms of the HPE OneView licensing cost. Hitachi was cheaper, but I'd rate HPE OneView cost-wise as eight out of ten."

"HPE could lower the price."

"Use it. It is free."

"Synergy does not require iLO licenses but servers and enclosures must be purchased."

"This license cost for OneView was $3,000 USD."

"The solution is free to use, but if you want the management aspect you require a virtual machine such as C7000 or Synergy which require licenses."

"I think that the price of OneView is $500 USD per server, which is a little high."

"HPE had some other solutions, but they were actually quite expensive to buy. So, when OneView came along, it was kind of reasonable in terms of price for licenses, etc."

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"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE OneView?

The most valuable features of HPE OneView are environment monitoring, the ease of firmware upgrade, and the ability to manage all the servers and the infrastructure from one team.

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What needs improvement with HPE OneView?

I believe the prices of HPE OneView should be reduced, as it is quite expensive. Customers with ILO advanced in their servers require HPE OneView licenses for infrastructure monitoring, which means...

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What is your primary use case for HPE OneView?

I use HPE OneView ( /products/hpe-oneview-reviews ) in servers or storage for unified monitoring purposes. It allows me to manage the Synergy frame and multiple frames, including blade servers, in ...

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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Also Known As

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Overview

HPE OneView is your infrastructure automation engine to simplify operations, increasing the speed of IT delivery for new applications and services. Through software defined intelligence, HPE OneView brings a new level of automation to infrastructure management by taking a template driven approach to provisioning, updating, and integrating compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. Designed with a modern, standard-based API and supported by a large and growing partner ecosystem, HPE OneView also makes it easy to integrate powerful infrastructure automation into existing IT tools and processes. Take command with HPE OneView to deploy infrastructure faster, simplify operations and increase productivity.

HPE OneView innovations provide you the industry’s best infrastructure management experience, simplifying operations for HPE BladeSystem, HPE ProLiant servers, 3PAR storage, HPE Networking and HPE ConvergedSystems.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

VMware

Sample Customers

Asante, ITS Nordics, Columbus Communications, Mansfield Oil

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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