NinjaOne vs. VMware vCenter

NinjaOne

VMware vCenter

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
NinjaOne	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, delivering visibility, security, and control over endpoints. The NinjaOne endpoint management platform increases productivity for IT teams and managed service providers, and comes with unlimited onboarding, training, and support.	N/A
VMware vCenter	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.	$6,044 per year

Pricing

NinjaOne

VMware vCenter

Editions & Modules

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Basic: 6,044
per year
Production: 6,244
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
NinjaOne	VMware vCenter
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

NinjaOne is a subscription service with a charge rate per month. For more detailed pricing information, contact NinjaOne directly to request a demo or to start 14-days free trial.

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Community Pulse
	NinjaOne	VMware vCenter
Considered Both Products	NinjaOne Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne We came from Manage Engine and it is a night and day difference. I would never imagine going back after working with NinjaOne Incentivized Helpful? Justin Mott CTO Chose NinjaOne We have used many RMM providers and the UI, cost and experience has all been better with NinjaOne. Datto wasn’t able to improve anything in the three years that we use them, in fact they were sold to and immediately started trying to sell us the other services they had. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne this integrates with Splashtop and works well. I am happy with the integration and prefer it over Teamviewer. This is included in our subscription and works with a few clicks. Users can accept / deny the request and if no one is there we can still remote in. Makes servicing … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Gneiting Systems Administrator Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne is very simple to use and navigate. There are fewer layers of pages to navigate to get to what you want. This is a time saver and it makes it easier to find what you are looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne feels like a smaller company, and I mean that in a good way. Their support is quick and helpful and because of our size we are escalated directly to their level 2 support. Our account manager is eager to assist and get ideas/issues to the right people and put those … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Brewster Chief Technology Officer Chose NinjaOne We liked the per device pricing and the UI of the platform most when we decided to leave Datto RMM. We believe that NinjaOne's constant development to improve the product has been really helpful. The quality of the community posts with scripts we can use to automate things … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne Prior to NinjaOne, our IT management was a blank slate. We knew we needed something, and we wanted to ensure we were making the best decision for our organization. We attended demos and talked with sales reps, sales engineers, etc. At the end of the day, it was the relationship … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne isn't the cheapest or the most expensive. However, it has the most functionality out of the other solutions that we looked at. Incentivized Helpful? SG Sergio Galvez IT Manager Chose NinjaOne So far NinjaOne has been more stable to use vs the items listed above. It has been easier to setup and go. Easy to setup end user equipment with a quick setup file that an end user can run if you asked them to. The portal is quick to update and quick to allow you to start … Incentivized Helpful? LS Lee Summerville Consultant Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne has a much better web interface than Automate, in terms of both usability and function. The endpoint search function in NinjaOne is very good with results, and each endpoint agent page has a great overview of the endpoints health, NinjaOne event history, etc. The … Incentivized Helpful? NM Nicholas Miller Automation Engineer Chose NinjaOne About 2 years ago we evaluated about a dozen similar utilities that are all aimed at managing and maintaining endpoint from several customers at the same time. At the end of the evaluation, NinjaOne was chosen based on several criteria specifically targeting the use case that … Incentivized Helpful? CM Casey Moore System Administrator Chose NinjaOne Mainly used them to try and push out installs for NinjaOne. But NinjaOne has their own way of pushing out the installs through AD and it made my life so much easier getting this deployed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne ConnectWise Automate and Atera Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne offers the same feature set that the big players offer, for a fraction of the price. when looking at RMM solutions, there are several large companies out there that claim that they do everything well, but what we have found is that they often do many things, but not … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Kerzner Service Delivery manager Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne feels like it is way beyond its competitors. Their UI is fantastic, with the exception of no Dark Mode. It is very responsive and easy to navigate. Also, NinjaOne bills monthly with no contract commitment. This makes it much more accessible to smaller and medium-sized … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne The systems screen on NinjaOne is simpler and has more information. You can customize details/columns per technician. CMD, PowerShell, registry emulate the windows look and feel. Pulseway just gives you a big white page to type commands and it doesn’t respond as seamlessly. … Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Sholly, MISM Director of Technology Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne has what it takes and is very cost effective for what it provides an IT team. We would not be able to do what we do without it. Cost comparison wise, NinjaOne is the best option we found that has such a wide breadth of capabilities like it does. Incentivized Helpful? Stephanie Sava Sr Help Desk Analyst/Phone System Administrator Chose NinjaOne Ninja does a few things better than Goverlan Reach, like the integrated ticketing. But honestly, Goverlan was much more user-friendly for everything else. N-able has a lot of features, but they're not easy to use, if you can even find them. Incentivized Helpful? Rudy Shaw IT Director Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne has more overall features than these competitors bundled in their package. Both of these other products have separate add-ons that will accomplish the additional features that NinjaOne bundles in. While it seems that both may be slightly more powerful when it comes to … Incentivized Helpful? KS Kurt Sholly Director of Technology Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne is the easiest to deploy and most cost effective solution we could find. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne Ninja is much easier to use that anything I've worked with in the past. We selected Ninja because we felt the learning curve for the team would be the fastest, and the roadmap for the product shows its evolving quickly. Can't say that for many of the other platforms I've … Incentivized Helpful? Nesta Hayward Director of Technology Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne isn't as versatile as N-able. NinjaOne doesn't have as many features or settings as N-able. N-able is far more complex, which isn't always a good thing. For vary large-scale MSPs, it might be a better choice. However, for a small to medium-sized team, NinjaOne is an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne was cheaper and had a more robust platform. Other competitors didn't offer the same number of features or customer support. Incentivized Helpful? BE Bryan Eydt Senior IT Administrator Chose NinjaOne Like all software you have certain features that you don't get in others, specific software like Zoho Assist give great remote access, probably better then Teamviwer (1 of NinjaOne's remote Access Solutions) however you have to have a contract and license for each one and the … Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Jones, CRSM IT Director Chose NinjaOne NinjaOne blows Connectwise out of the water. You can take a college kid right out of school and put them in front of NinjaOne and they will have no issues at all. IT is that easy to use! Connectwise on the other hand uses an academy to get you trained and ready. Yeah if you … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware vCenter Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter In my experience, Red Hat Virtualization was cumbersome. I think VMware vCenter is definitely a better product. Red Hat discontinued their Virtualization product but still offers other virtualization platforms that I haven't tested. In my opinion, Proxmox isn't as polished but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter We initially used Citrix XenServer and made the switch to VMware vCenter due to it being less expensive at the time. That was some 15yrs ago and is no longer the case as Broadcom has changed the licensing scheme for their products which greatly increased the costs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter Not really a competition. Proxmox and Hyper-V both lacks the manageability and easy to use access for multiple nodes and clusters. Also Hyper-V has the ability to use Multiple nodes but it does not compare to the level of VMware vCenter Server. All the integrations possible … Incentivized Helpful? Veli-Matti Mäkelä System Administrator Chose VMware vCenter VMware as a product was most advanced hypervisor when we made the decision for our datacenter. Over the years VMware vCenter has kept it's edge and we have seen no reason to change to any other product as we have gained experience over the years. We do still continue to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter I was not involved in the evaluation, but my understanding from colleagues was that the years of experience in VMware vs. Hyper-V were very evident. VMware vCenter was simply a much more mature product. Incentivized Helpful? Manfred B. Zysk Network and Systems Administrator Chose VMware vCenter vCenter is much more complete as a solution than other products that I have looked at and it works very well for our environment. vCenter is very easy to configure and does not have the unnecessary steps to set up and configure. Also, the different storage vendor support … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter Citrix Xen Server.... Great Hypervisor but very limited in terms of functionality MS Hyper-V... [VMware vCenter Server] is better for almost everything and appliance form makes a clear winner for security and ease of deployment Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter VMware vCenter Server's biggest competitor is Microsoft's Hyper-V Server. We prefer VMware vCenter Server because the hypervisor is much less resource intensive. It also gives us a different environment so that a specific Microsoft bug wouldn't take down all of our VMs if the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter [VMware vCenter Server] is the true leader in this space. The functionality and ability to offload tasks to other teams makes this a no brainer. The granularity in permission allows [VMware vCenter Server] to be secure and isolate teams to only the objects they are allowed to … Incentivized Helpful? AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Chose VMware vCenter There was not much competition, VMware has been in the market the longest and other systems are still catching up. VMware is proven, trusted, and has a good support base, the other main differentiator is VSAN for storage, reducing the need for physical SAN(s) which can become a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter VMware runs in the cloud. I do not have the experience with cloud based VMware to comment. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli Support Analyst Level 2 Chose VMware vCenter Hyper-V is not a bad product by any means, and it does have the benefit of not costing money for the software itself since it comes with the OS. That being said, it did start quite far behind VMware in features when it first came to market. Microsoft has been catching up, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter vCenter beats the daylights out of Microsoft Hyper-V. Actions that take multiple clicks with Microsoft can be achieved in a single click with vCenter. It’s less expensive and easier to deploy and maintain. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter VMware vCenter Server is a much more simplified, in my opinion, platform for managing a virtual infrastructure stack. There are a number of features that are available at the Enterprise and Enterprise+ tiers of service that other hypervisor environments do not excel at, or do … Incentivized Helpful? Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Chose VMware vCenter Citrix XenCenter used an isolated client that directly connects to the hosts instead of using a management agent. This causes a number of issues if the host is not optimally configured. Microsoft Hyper-V has been behind VMware in feature set for many years, but is starting to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter We considered Microsoft Hyper-V very briefly. At the time we considered Hyper-V you still needed to purchase an extra management product to get features similar to vCenter; and even then, it didn't seem fully baked, yet. The situation may, and probably has changed, with later … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter We only selected vCenter as there wasn't really any alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Jewemars Christian Riano System Administrator Chose VMware vCenter Based on the Gartner leader board, VMware is a pioneer in terms of virtualization, it is also API based which is easy to integrate on other systems via REST API's, the technology itself is powerful and it's corresponding other added value features that makes administering … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter VMware is much easier to use, much easier to configure, and does not rely on having another OS layer like windows to run off of. This was they key for us because whenever we had to update windows we would have to migrate everything off just to apply some simple updates. VCenter … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Liebowitz Server and Storage Engineer Chose VMware vCenter Our desktop team uses Citrix XenApp for remote connectivity of our employees. However, this environment runs on our VMware vSphere hosts which are managed by VMware vCenter Server. :) XenApp was never considered to replace VMware vCenter Server or our vSphere hosts. Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Mulla Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems Chose VMware vCenter VMware vcenter server is way ahead of the competition in terms of features and thought that has gone into the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter Proxmox VE is also a very powerful tool and is free, but vCenter has really hit the nail on the head as far as simplicity and ease of use, as well as, reliability. Incentivized Helpful? Greg Goss SQL Database and Business Intelligence Manager Chose VMware vCenter When we were selecting a hypervisor a few years ago, VMware was the clear leader at the time. Now the gap has lessened but I still like the feature set and feel of VMware. VMware is also moving in a direction I generally like, so I don't have any reason to replace what we've … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VMware vCenter There are similar products in the market, both commercial as well as open source. We only tried open source products such as Ovirt and ProxMox, however they did not possess the range of features of this product. In addition, the majority of such options do not provide an easy … Incentivized Helpful? Victor Arana IT Manager Chose VMware vCenter I've selected VMware vCenter Server among the other Virtual Server solutions because it reduces the amount of time and effort to run and set up maintenance tasks, create hosts and back them up. Replication is so easy when you have a second vCenter Server linked remotely that … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

NinjaOne

VMware vCenter

Monitoring Tasks

Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	NinjaOne 8.9 Ratings 18% above category average	VMware vCenter - Ratings
Remote monitoring	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network device monitoring	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Activity Monitoring	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

Management Tasks

Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	NinjaOne 8.6 Ratings 14% above category average	VMware vCenter - Ratings
Patch Management	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy-based automation	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	NinjaOne	VMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.8 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	NinjaOne	VMware vCenter
Likelihood to Recommend	Whether you are an MSP who needs an all-in-one solution for device management, or you are in-house IT who needs a single pane of glass to manage your devices, NinjaOne fits the bill as a top tier solution. The amount of flexibility in scaling to your organization's size is impressive as the platform can be as simple as just using it for remote access, all the way up to deploying comprehensive automation packages in the form of a compound condition that bases its actions on the results of other conditions or scripts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	VMware vCenter Server is suited for pretty much any environment using virtual servers. It allows a centralized management view of the virtual servers and the physical servers that the virtual servers run on. There are so many things that VMware vCenter Server can do, including large Enterprise options that are cost-prohibitive for most organizations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	With Ninja, we are able to have all of our IT tools and management under one umbrella making it extremely easy to keep an eye on all of our servers and workstations. Their support team is OUTSTANDING and gives quick and helpful answers to our questions. Our account manager calls us personally to review any issues and ensure we are running smoothly. Ninja gives us automated patch management of our important devices, and has a nice security log to see what's been done. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	First and foremost, it provides a platform for us to virtualize our servers and it does it very well. Having the ability to spin up a new server from a template in a matter of seconds is amazing and saves precious time and resources. VMware vCenter Server also provides the ability to view performance & statistical data that assists my team in balancing our host environment. Leveraging the vMotion functionality, we can quickly move VMs from one host to another for maintenance purposes, etc... VMware vCenter Server also make it easy to add / modify hardware configurations within the VMs setup. Adding RAM, hard drive space, processor cores, etc...is as easy as it gets. VMware vCenter Server makes it easy to backup and restore a VM from the console. You can quickly create a backup of any VM and store it during upgrades, etc...for easy roll backs. Incentivized Joe Spradlin IT Manager Read full review
Cons	NinjaOne does support Mac, however I would like to have more options for automation and scheduled task on Mac devices. I would like it if NinjaOne also provided an MDM solution. It would be nice is NinjaOne could integrate a PAM solution as well. Incentivized Brett Carson Director of IT Read full review	I still am not happy with the web interface. While convenient in that I can access vCenter from anywhere I have a browser connection, It feels slower than the thick client and if I'm doing anything that takes longer than a few minutes, I'll always opt for the thick client. Incentivized Greg Goss SQL Database and Business Intelligence Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I have not had any real issues with NinjaOne and as long as it keeps doing what it is meant to do, I do not plan on looking elsewhere. I need software to be stable and NinjaOne is stable. Incentivized SG Sergio Galvez IT Manager Read full review	We are very dependent on this software, it has become a much needed tool to perform the daily tasks that are required to maintain the virtual server environment. VMware has become very pricey over the years, so we are looking for alternatives for cost savings strategy, but nothing has been found to be on par to what we are currently using Incentivized Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Read full review
Usability	Ninja's interface is clean and simple. Overall usability from an interface perspective is good. Some items, policies and scripting for instance, are a bit cumbersome and it's really not clear how to implement with a best practice mind-site. Ninja RMM got the job done for us but as we pushed our needs more into automation and efficiency we felt it wasn't keeping up with our speed of growth. There is definitely usability in the product, and it will get the job done, but there are other RMM's out there that fit better in our business. Incentivized Steve Ricketts Director Of Technical Services Read full review	I work with vCenter for 10+ years and i love it. I can find my way around and can help building and expanding the platform. It is easy to use and there are a lot good communities for the extra support when needed. Even the Homelab community is of great value. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Availability is very good Incentivized Kevin Brant Service Desk Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	The software loads quickly for the most part Incentivized Kevin Brant Service Desk Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Support has been very responsive and my account rep Brian K. has communicated with me continuously making sure we had everything we need. Not like other MDMs where they sign you up and that's the last you hear from them. NinjaOne makes sure you use the product to its best application and you are successful and continue as the product features grow. Incentivized DS DAVID Sulkes IT DIR Read full review	VMware support has always been fantastic and they have been invaluable in solving tougher issues that have been run into. Most of the time, any oddities encountered are fixed by available updates. This can be deduced by support quickly with logs within vCenter. We have not run into something yet that support was unable to help with. They either have a solution already, or they are able to find one quickly. Incentivized Adam Friedli Support Analyst Level 2 Read full review
In-Person Training	Easy to learn and all of the functions and features were easy to learn. Once I started learning all of the features and functions, it made my everyday tasks much easier and more productive. The user interface is very easy to use. If I did have any questions, the Ninja Dojo was a big help. Incentivized Kevin Brant Service Desk Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	It was nice and self paced learning. The sections were easy to understand and the functionality was very worthwhile. The online training was very easy to learn and intuitive. I did not feel the need to ask for any clarification or assistance with any of the sections. I am still learning a lot of the functions but fined it very easy to use. Incentivized Kevin Brant Service Desk Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Use of Organizations and locations Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Since moving away from the Windows Server hosting the vCenter application and instead using a virtual appliance, it has become much easier to implement and deploy the new versions. We can easily create a snapshot or clone of the vCenter vApp to ensure any problems encountered during the upgrade can be mitigated with a fall back to the old version to prevent unscheduled downtime. Incentivized Rick Lupton Systems Programmer Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We used Auto Task and Datto. We felt that NinjaOne was a more user friendly platform. There was a large training curve for new employees to learn to use Auto Task. We have noticed a shortened training curve for NinjaOne. We really like the layout and the Ninja Academy. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	vCenter is much more complete as a solution than other products that I have looked at and it works very well for our environment. vCenter is very easy to configure and does not have the unnecessary steps to set up and configure. Also, the different storage vendor support makes it easy to configure and maintain without having to use separate applications or consoles. Incentivized Manfred B. Zysk Network and Systems Administrator Read full review
Scalability	Overall the software is very reliable Incentivized Kevin Brant Service Desk Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	NinjaOne is a monthly payment with no commitment, this is much better suited to an MSP than other competitors that try to wrap you up into a 3-5-year contract. As an MSP, we could lose a client at any moment and it sucks to be stuck in a contract where we can't lower our agent counts. NinjaOne helps my techs be more efficient and productive. Saving time and money. Incentivized Michael Kerzner Service Delivery manager Read full review	Significantly reduced the number of standalone control system servers on site Allowed scaling up of existing systems and migrating other systems onto new infrastructure without additional hardware outlay The initial licensing and hardware purchase cost was high, however will pay off by the reduction in hardware costs required for planned systems Incentivized AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Read full review
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