SolarWinds Virtualization Manager vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

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The compared SolarWinds and Veeam Software solutions aren't in the same category. SolarWinds is ranked #6 in VM , and holds a 9.0% mindshare in the category. Veeam Software is ranked #1 in BRS , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 71% of SolarWinds 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 Feb 1, 2026

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Veeam Data Platform compete in virtualization management and data protection. Veeam Data Platform appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features, making it attractive for those who prioritize strong data protection.

Features: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager offers detailed performance insights, resource optimization tools, and virtual machine performance optimization. Veeam Data Platform is known for robust backup, data protection, and instant recovery features, making it ideal for data-centric operations.

Room for Improvement: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager can improve on simplifying the setup process, refining its interface, and enhancing integration capabilities. Veeam Data Platform could benefit from reducing initial costs, expanding automation features, and improving scalability for larger environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veeam Data Platform provides a streamlined deployment process and responsive customer service, which enhances user satisfaction. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager requires a more complex initial setup, which can impact the user experience.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is praised for competitive pricing and delivering a good return on investment for virtualization needs. Veeam Data Platform, despite higher initial costs, offers greater long-term value due to its extensive feature set and effectiveness in data management and protection.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Virtualization M...

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtualization Management Tools (6th)

Veeam Data Platform

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

434

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (1st), Cloud Backup (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Veeam Data Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is designed for Virtualization Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 9.0%, down 9.5% compared to last year.
Veeam Data Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 5.6% mindshare, down 11.4% since last year.

Virtualization Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager	9.0%
VMware Aria Operations	22.4%
IBM Turbonomic	17.1%
Other	51.5%

Virtualization Management Tools

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veeam Data Platform	5.6%
Commvault Cloud	3.3%
Rubrik	3.2%
Other	87.9%

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

Ravi Khanchandani

Founder Director at Techsa Services

Optimizing virtual environments by reclaiming and allocating resources efficiently

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager optimizes VM performance and virtualization. It provides me with recommendations for resource allocation, indicating if a virtual machine is under-provisioned or over-provisioned. This allows me to reclaim resources, such as reducing the number of CPU cores or RAM, which is beneficial. Its capacity planning feature is also very useful for me. The GUI is highly simplified, cutting across various virtualization platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix environments.

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Munichandra G

Backup Engineer at Cloud4C Services

Backup policies have strengthened security and replication but still need flexible long-term retention

The support and compatibility are areas of concern. When it comes to Azure workloads, Veeam Data Platform has limitations with only MS SQL database and Cosmos, and no other databases are supported by Veeam Backup for Azure. The main challenge I noticed is that enterprise customers may have a requirement to retain backups for 10 years or 15 years with monthly and weekly backups. In Veeam Data Platform, we do not have customization or compatibility to retain specific data backups as monthly and yearly. The retention schedule is fixed. For instance, it is the first Friday of the backup or the last Friday of the month. If it is weekly, it should be one of the weeks. If it is monthly, it should be the last Friday. For yearly, it is the last Friday of that respective month in that year. However, this should not be the case. When a customer confirms, 'Please go and take an EOD backup and retain it for 10 years,' Veeam Data Platform does not support this sort of customization. I even raised a case with Veeam Data Platform and they clearly stated that Veeam Data Platform only accepts the GFS policy according to the retention defined, and there is no customization available. This is a significant limitation. I should have the customization to go and take a backup of a specific date, month, or year, but Veeam Data Platform does not allow this and restricts me to only the policy supported. For example, if I take any backup, I do not have an option to extend the retention. If a customer asks, 'Please take a backup,' and later requests, 'No, it is very critical. Can you please extend the retention for 15 years?' Veeam Data Platform does not support this. Veeam Data Platform does not allow me to extend the retention in the way other tools do. These are limitations I came across in my experience, and I feel these are minimal requirements. The same features are offered by other third-party backup tools available in the market. From the analytics point of view, I personally feel some challenges. Veeam Data Platform has two different products: VBR and Veeam Backup for Azure. As we are running on cloud platforms, if we are in Azure, we must go for Veeam Backup for Azure. If we need to create copy jobs, I must again come to VBR. However, Veeam ONE is not capable enough to integrate both platforms. For instance, if I am taking backup of workloads through Veeam Backup for Azure, I could not find an option to integrate it into Veeam ONE for reports and analytics. It is only limited to VBR. Whatever jobs we created in VBR are displayed there, but Veeam Backup for Azure does not integrate, at least from what I have explored, and it should not be this way. Veeam ONE should support all Veeam Data Platform products.

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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

"SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a great tool that is easy to use...It is a stable solution."

"Alerting expands, and makes, our monitoring and management much more efficient."

"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager are the non-Windows servers' monitoring and capacity planning."

"This product is so helpful out-of-the-box."

"Virtualization manager’s cost analysis comparison report identified areas in which specific customers were being grossly undercharged for their resource consumption levels, as compared to rates available through AWS."

"If you’re looking to get a lot more insight into your virtualization environment and more than just basic information, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is the choice you should make."

"SolarWinds Virtualization Manager optimizes VM performance and virtualization."

"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."

"The technical support services have always been good."

"I don't have to go back and forth between different applications to get the report I need."

"Storage gateway feature is very flexible."

"Replication Job base on a source HPE Catalyst store to perform a full reconstruction of our production systems on our third datacenter, which is our DRP Site."

"The most valuable feature is the instant recovery."

"The tool is good for VMware environments."

"Veeam ONE is a good solution that anyone can use."

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Cons

"Adhoc reporting takes time to get used to – due mainly to the fact that the team I am on are all admins, and not necessarily accustomed to query reporting in the manner utilized by Solarwinds Virtualization Manager."

"The UI is a little cumbersome at first, but the more you use it and get accustomed to it, the simpler it becomes."

"The SolarWinds Virtualization Manager platform in general can have a better response time in the performance."

"I had some stability issues. I lost my environment."

"SolarWinds needs to support integration with other virtualization platforms like KVM or Linux-based systems."

"The problem or issue with the product is related to its pricing."

"Out of the box support for a wider array of hardware vendor/device-specific SNMP mibs could be improved upon."

"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."

"Veeam Data Platform needs to improve data backup for Oracle admin. It needs to improve its stability."

"It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines."

"We had one problem once with the network."

"Backing up Exchange could be better, particularly Clustered Exchange."

"The Veeam technical support is not very good."

"Using the native VADP snapshot functionality can stress out the VMware kernel."

"The initial setup of Veeam Backup Replication is straightforward. The process took approximately two days. The setup could be streamlined to take less time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly."

"The license subscription could be more straightforward."

"They could work at providing a better price."

"I think the price is good when you choose the Essentials Suite, but when you buy a full featured version (for instance the Enterprise Plus) the price is a little bit expensive."

"We use the community edition of the Veeam Backup Replication and it is a software-based license. It can be a little expensive."

"Several licensing schemes are available."

"We have increased our scalability while being able to free up senior resources from recovery activities. I estimate our overall savings to about $20,000 per year."

"The product is expensive for small businesses."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Healthcare Company

10%

Government

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	218
Midsize Enterprise	98
Large Enterprise	144

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

This solution delivers significant cost savings, especially from a capacity perspective. Consistent monitoring is essential in a virtualization environment, and Virtualization Manager, or VMAN as i...

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

SolarWinds needs to support integration with other virtualization platforms like KVM or Linux-based systems.

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

We predominantly work with financial organizations such as large banks, stock exchanges, and insurance companies, as well as IT-enabled services (ITES). I use SolarWinds Virtualization Manager at o...

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Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?

Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...

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How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...

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Comparisons

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Compared 37% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter vs SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Compared 10% of the time

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Compared 9% of the time

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Commvault Cloud vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

Rubrik vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 3% of the time

HPE Zerto Software vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 3% of the time

Veritas Backup Exec vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

SolarWinds VMAN

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager streamlines the monitoring and management of virtual environments by offering comprehensive visibility and actionable insights for IT professionals.

Designed to handle complex virtual systems, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager aids IT teams in tracking application performance, optimizing resource utilization, and identifying potential issues before they impact operations. The robust features ensure efficient operation and continuous system health, fostering an environment where virtual infrastructures can be effectively monitored and managed without significant manual intervention.

What are the key features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

Performance Monitoring: Tracks system health and alerts users to potential bottlenecks.
Capacity Planning: Analyzes trends to predict future resource needs.
Sprawl Control: Identifies and manages VM sprawl to optimize resources.
Storage Monitoring: Provides insight into storage utilization and performance.
Customizable Dashboards: Allows personalized views of critical data.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Increased Efficiency: Streamlines virtual environment management.
Cost Savings: Reduces resource wastage and prevents overspending.
Improved Uptime: Proactive identification of issues minimizes downtime.
Enhanced Planning: Data-driven insights support effective resource allocation.

In industries such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager supports infrastructure maintenance by ensuring reliable performance and aiding compliance management through detailed monitoring capabilities. It adapts to specific industry requirements, facilitating seamless integration and operational excellence.

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Veeam Data Platform is a unified data resilience solution that helps organizations recover from cyberattacks and outages, and protect workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments – all without vendor lock-in.

The platform includes built-in security capabilities designed to mitigate ransomware and other data-loss threats, including AI-backed threat detection across a broad range of workload types. This is intended to help teams identify and respond to threats before they disrupt operations.

Veeam Data Platform supports workload portability across hypervisors, cloud providers, and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to move or recover data across infrastructure without being tied to a specific vendor or platform.

For organizations looking to simplify deployment, Veeam Software Appliance provides a pre-built, hardened, and highly available option, reducing the manual setup and maintenance work required from IT teams.

Veeam Data Platform is used by over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500.

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