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.
"I think Veeam ONE is great as it is, it does everything I need."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Veeam ONE is a very good management product...The technical support is very good, and I think it's one of the best. The response time is very quick."
"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 product is very straightforward and very easy to use from the client-side."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the notifications, which give us failure alerts for some infrastructure within the backup, and the reporting is excellent."
"It has improved our organization with respect to allowing us to size our environments correctly. We get metrics about what our stuff is actually using, how we can scope for future projects, where can we save some resources."
"Its ability to resolve an issue from within the application rather than going somewhere else to resolve it."
"The alerting feature would be the most valuable feature for us. It gathers more metrics. In the latest versions, there are metrics that are being exactly captured with vCenter which are a bit better. Aside for that it provides a historical analysis of metrics over time."
"There's a feature known as Smart Alerts in vRealize Operations, which I have found to be useful if there's anything going wrong in the infrastructure. What usually happens is that you get so many alerts that you become confused. Smart Alerts give you visibility into your infrastructure and also recommend how to fix the situation. That's a feature which I'm really a fan of."
"VM rightsizing is another very good feature and capacity planning is something else that I like about it."
"vROps is more user-friendly than some other products that we've seen on the market. It was very easy for our technicians to pick up. The search functionality works well. It makes it easy for our technicians to get down to a workload that they're possibly having an issue with."
"The most valuable feature is that everything is integrated for monitoring, performance, and troubleshooting."
"Through the trending analysis that we can do, it allowed us to quickly and easily right-size the capacity from a cluster."
"Its reporting feature could be better."
"Veeam ONE could improve by having capacity planning, intelligent automatization, and ransomware."
"There is a lot of information, so maybe the dashboards could consolidate it."
"Veeam ONE should make available notifications through SMS."
"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."
"The solution could improve the performance. We are not able to check the status of any system. Additionally, if there was an option to monitor server clusters it would be helpful."
"The appliance doesn't have a domain. If there was a competitor with a domain, I'd likely use them."
"Veeam ONE should improve its UI."
"I'd like to see more of the advanced reporting without having to go to the advanced product and paying the extra price. Canned reports are great, but you shouldn't have to pay for custom reports."
"It is sometimes quite hard to use. If I need details, there is a huge amount of information that I need to review. It isn't a three-click solution."
"In a previous version, you could click on a cluster to see a lot of information about efficiency, e.g., when you will run out of memory, CPU usage, and RAM in percentages. In newer versions, you see this information in megahertz and kilobytes, not percentage. I don't like this change so much. If you need to present information to your boss or Director of IT, the information would be better with a percentage. Now, you have only a big number and don't know the percentage of use that you are getting from the VMs. I don't know why they changed it, but I liked the percentage version more than getting the numbers for megahertz of memory. Also, kilobytes of memory is a very large number. For a simple view, gigabytes or terabytes is better."
"I would like to have more documentation, in the form of knowledge bases, that better explain the technology, related products, and what the capabilities are."
"For the most part, we have found it to be user-friendly. It has gotten better over time since the first version of vROps that I used. The interface has really improved since then."
"It is a bit complex, so you need to spend time with it."
"I'd like to see the streamlining of more wizards, more tasks that are canned. And it would also be good to see some more features around building the Blueprints, just to make it a little easier."
"I'd like to see a little more training, free training on the VMware site; to get some more information within the VMware community. There's quite a bit of stuff out there but getting that access can be daunting sometimes."
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, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Zabbix 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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