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Veeam Data Platform vs. VMware vCenter

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Veeam Data Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

    $428

    per year per 5 instances

    VMware vCenter

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AVMware 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
    Veeam Data PlatformVMware vCenter
    Editions & Modules
    Veeam Data Platform Essentials
    $428
    per year per 5 instances
    Veeam Data Platform
    Contact sales team
    Basic
    6,044
    per year
    Production
    6,244
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Veeam Data PlatformVMware vCenter
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsVeeam sells through channel partners. Contact a partner for detailed pricing and quotes. Resellers or sales personnel are available for assistance.—
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    Community Pulse
    Veeam Data PlatformVMware vCenter
    Considered Both Products
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    Originally, our organization used to use Symantec Backup Exec which was very time consuming, confusing and cumbersome to for me and my staff to use. When taking over another company's infrastructure, they had used Carbonite to backup their physical servers. Again, the software …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    Easier to configure and maitain. More stable too.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    I am still getting to know Unitrends, but they seem pretty equal.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    At the time we started using Veeam, there was only one other applicable competitor, and I cannot remember the name of it anymore. I think it was Qwest or something like that. We also concurrently run ArcServe and ShadowProtect. Veeam now has features available so that we can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    I have only used Veeam from the start. It was recommended by my vendor. I reviewed all products available at the time, prior to making the decision to go with Veeam. There are other good products out there, but I think Veeam is absolutely the best!
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    We use Arcserver for our physical server or drive partition backup. But it's not stable. Once in a while, it has alarms stating the data tranasferring to its destination has problem. We spent much time on this, but it still happens. Furthermore, the switch between the primary …
    Incentivized
    VMware by Broadcom
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose VMware vCenter
    I have used Microsoft Hyper-V at a previous employment. It was good in those situations of a small batch of servers. Hyper-V is relatively easy to manage and can use Powershell scripting for management and control.
    In larger deployments, like we have currently, Hyper-V …
    Incentivized
    Chose VMware vCenter
    It feels like other hypervisors are either trying to catch up to VMware or filling a smaller niche that VMware may be too broad to fill. VMware continues to bring the newest features and improvements and it's hard to compare any other hypervisor as long as VMware continues to …
    Incentivized
    Chose VMware vCenter
    Honestly it made no sense to look elsewhere since vCenter is an integral component of VMware and designed and supported but he same team. We need to ensure business operational continuity and did not want to end up in a finger pointing contest with a 3rd party product.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Veeam Data PlatformVMware vCenter
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Veeam Data Platform and VMware vCenter
    Feature
    Veeam Data Platform
    9.2
    212 Ratings
    VMware vCenter
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery9.2177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.4188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.3186 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection9.2170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.6201 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.7206 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.2132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.9192 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.4178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.2169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.522 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.2176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options8.9179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.7157 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Veeam Data PlatformVMware vCenter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (661 ratings)
    8.4
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (37 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.9
    (29 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (33 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    4.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)