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Veeam ONE

Score8.2 out of 10

107 Reviews and Ratings

What is Veeam ONE?

Veeam ONE is virtualization management technology from Ohio based VMware partner Veeam Software.

Easy to use monitoring, analytics and reporting for your IT enviroment

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our enviroment is mid sized with couple hundred servers. We have very little marigins for downtime.

We monitor our onpremise backup and virtual infrastructure with Veeam ONE. We get instant alerts when any problems arrise. We also use the reporting services of Veeam ONE to report to managemnt on critical aspects of our server enviroment.

Pros

  • Alerting on critical incidents
  • Reporting on environment
  • Analytics on enviroment

Cons

  • We miss more detailed reporting on whole backup enviroment
  • Graphical map of the virtual infrastructure enviroment would be nice

Return on Investment

  • We got better overall picture of our enviroment and could plan our investents on future upgrades better
  • We get information on possible sources of downtime ahead of time and can reduce downtime overall

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix and Nagios Core

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Veeam One - Monitoring and Reporting

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam One, to analyse and verify our VMware and Veeam infrastructure. They allow us to get reports and real time monitoring of our backup jobs, and VMs states. I can generate stuny reports of my virtual envirioment like VMware components, free space on VMs, resource consumption and many more data.

Pros

  • Monitoring Veeam backup and VMware infrastructure
  • Generate great reports of virtual envirioment
  • Generate and configure alarm for critical specification

Cons

  • Work with Hyper V and other hypervisor
  • More options for generate reports
  • Monitoring and create reports for pysical machine

Return on Investment

  • The ROI is positive because Veeam One save you from get a disastre that will require more investment or money to resolve
  • If you buy Veeam Advanced plataform tha include Veeam Bakcup and One the positive ROI can be achieved in less them 1 year

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365, VMware Workstation Pro and Veeam Data Platform

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Microsoft 365, VMware vSphere

Ready to monitor after install

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>I use Veeam ONE both in a HA VMWare environment with licensed version and in a tiny school infrastructure with one VMWare server and a community edition version.</div><div>In both cases it gives me a lot of information about what is happening now and -first of all- what has happened. It is a must have if you need a tool that can help you to analyze and troubleshoot your infrastructure.

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Pros

  • few things to setup and ready to play
  • show warnings and alarms if somethings is going wrong
  • collect data from server and show graphs and stats in a clear way

Cons

  • licesing system is a bit tricky
  • Hyper-V implementation is less mature than VMWare
  • User interface stop responding when I decide to stop a running job

Return on Investment

  • fast installation and quick setup
  • support is good even if you're using the community version
  • can be easy integrated in an existing infrastructure

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix, NetXMS and PRTG Network Monitor

Other Software Used

NetXMS, Zabbix

Great help to an insurance broker that try to be an IT Manger from Veeam One

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm an insurance broker, not an IT manager. Veeam One is a precious resource to understand and plan your infrastructure. I got control of my Virtualization Environment, correctly dimensioned my vm

Pros

  • Of cores and ram needed
  • Ram consumption, threads and so on visualization
  • Better control over Veeam Backup infrastructure

Cons

  • Veeam One needs a lot of resources
  • Heavy using of owl db

Most Important Features

  • Graphical representation "at a glance"

Return on Investment

  • + control
  • + audit
  • - requirements
  • - some times upgrading Veeam One require to update Veeam EM and Veeam Backup in the right order

Other Software Used

StarWind Virtual SAN, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, Lenovo XClarity, StarWind Virtual Tape Library, Hyper-V, Windows Server Failover Clustering, Cisco Secure Access by Duo

Veeam ONE Experience

Pros

  • Proactive Alerting - the product can provide email alerts to notify one of any issues in the environment.
  • Capacity Planning and Forecasting - it has the ability to provide an analysis of the current environment as well as provide a report to forecast future capacity requirements.
  • Monitoring and Reporting - the software can monitor you environment 24x7 with the ability to provide comprehensive reporting.

Cons

  • There isn't any obvious weakness as the product performs as it advertised.

Return on Investment

  • Replace previous backup software management and monitoring tools.
  • Ability to resolve issues as soon as they occur.
  • Ability to plan better for the future due to capacity planning features.

Other Software Used

Azure Active Directory, Windows Server, IBM Spectrum Protect, Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA), ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Adobe Acrobat DC