We performed a comparison between Veeam ONE and VMware Aria Operations based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Veeam ONE reviewers say that it is a fast, flexible, and mature solution that is useful for monitoring and troubleshooting.
VMware Aria Operations users like its capacity planning abilities and say it has good monitoring and reporting features.
Some users of both solutions note that they would like more integration options.
Comparison Results: Veeam ONE is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and flexible solution that according to users is competitively priced. Whereas, VMware Aria Operations users report that it is an expensive solution.
"The best feature of Veeam ONE to me is the infrastructure analysis that you can perform before deploying a backup environment. You can put in your backup requirements, for example, repository files and improvements on your VMware side, to ensure that it runs optimally. Pricing for Veeam ONE is also cheaper than VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) which is a direct competitor in the ops space, so this is another advantage of the solution."
"Storage gateway feature is very flexible."
"I think Veeam ONE is a good product to supervise and monitor infrastructure and for backup purposes."
"The most valuable features are the notifications, which give us failure alerts for some infrastructure within the backup, and the reporting is excellent."
"The monthly reports come complete with graphs and summaries, it's really helpful."
"The solution is simple to use."
"I don't have to go back and forth between different applications to get the report I need."
"The installation is pretty straightforward."
"We receive an overview from the dashboard of what is happening in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is all the metrics we get. They're really good. Being able to drill down and find out where the CPU and memory bottlenecks are and being able to tune them is really helpful."
"VMware vROps' most valuable feature is that it integrates well with our VMware infrastructure, which is helpful for us because we can closely monitor our VMs and their performance."
"It is intuitive and user-friendly. As you go through it, with some of the wizards and some of the interfaces that are out there, I think it's fairly easy to step through, even when we're training new employees to work with the product."
"It's pretty user-friendly. It is very intuitive, the layout is well-built, and the user experience is well-built. You look at the interface and you say, "Oh, I understand what these sections or what these categories of features do." For example, for reporting, there's a tab that says "Reporting." You click on it and there are all your reports. So the user interface is really well-designed to make it intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is determining if more resources are needed, at the hypervisor level, based on the workload of the virtual machines that we have in our environment."
"From a scalability perspective, the nice thing about vROps is it's more of a horizontal scale model. As our workloads increase, as our vCenters and different environments grow, vROps is easy to scale to consume that capacity by just adding another node. That can help. It keeps it from getting bogged down from not having enough resources. We can easily add a node in, it takes the additional load, and keeps up with our growth."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to right-size a workload, based on historical data for that workload. It also allows us to "sanity-check" the entire infrastructure by getting monthly reports on how everything is performing and where we can make improvements. That's all done automatically, without any administrator involvement."
"Veeam ONE could improve by having capacity planning, intelligent automatization, and ransomware."
"I am highly dissatisfied with their customer support approach."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to do monitoring and traffic aggregation in the whole virtual network environment."
"The pricing is very high."
"I've never considered what improvements Veeam needs, and I haven't asked our customers if there is any room for improvement. As the manager, I only see the reports."
"It would be great if Veeam ONE had a business hour reporting feature because sometimes a client would want to know what workers do during business hours and outside of business hours. This type of report will give you the added benefit when you're scaling up and scaling down in the cloud, for example, if I wanted to swap hot and cold storage during specific hours to save on cost. Business hour reporting in Veeam ONE will give you a lot of benefits and added value. Scalability needs to be improved in the solution."
"The reports are basic and not customizable, making it challenging to get detailed insights."
"Its reporting feature could be better."
"The room for improvement is in the definition of the metrics. There are millions of metrics inside the solution, but there is no documentation from VMware for what those exact metrics are. That is a trouble point at times."
"We would like the return of the additional partner marketplaces, like DataCore. My customers miss the integration to DataCore."
"If you want to automate the resizing of machines, you should be able to schedule it, so it happens at two in the morning instead of right now, because if you do it in the middle of a workday that's a big no-no. Automation should be a bit more intuitive."
"There were early kinks in the some of the virtual appliances as we rolled them out."
"I haven't had to use technical support for this version but I have had to use them in the past with other versions. There have been some challenges with them. It's hard to get through to the right person and resolving issues in previous versions was hard."
"They should have more automation features for database management."
"Certificate Management should be simplified for non-technical staff members."
"The tool is user-friendly, but you need to study to learn about the many features that the tool offers. It is not a tool that you can just start to work with when it comes to capacity planning. You need to study the documentation."
Veeam ONE is ranked 5th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 1st in Virtualization Management Tools with 360 reviews. Veeam ONE is rated 8.2, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. 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 Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". Veeam ONE is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere, Zabbix, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Nutanix Prism, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Nutanix Prism and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. See our VMware Aria Operations vs. Veeam ONE report.
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