We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories."
"Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product."
"Nakivo's backup and replication product has allowed us to implement a disaster recovery solution with a target repository in the cloud."
"The user interface is good, and it's user-friendly. I also like its usability with hyper-convergence products like Nutanix and others in the data infrastructure."
"The backups, especially of the incremental type, are really quick (ranging from five to 10 to 45 to 50 minutes depending on the size of the VM)."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"I would love to see compatibility with KVM Backup."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."
"It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software."
"UI could use some upgrades. The UI is basic, but functional."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 85 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Delphix. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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