We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veeam Backup & Replication 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.
"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."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Initially setting up the product is easy."
"The technical support is good."
"The initial setup is simple to do in Veeam Backup Replication."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer."
"The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication."
"Its portability and being able to back up between different platforms are the most valuable features."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"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 tool could be faster."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"If a single file is corrupt then the restoration of the entire backup will fail."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long"
"The more features the solution has the more complex it can be to set up. Veeam Backup & Replication can be complex."
"Veeam Backup Replication is a bit difficult to use. If you have used other solutions such as Commvault, you will find it is much easier to use. Veeam Backup Replication does backups in a different way that is not as simple as other solutions. Doing backups of SQL Servers is much easier in Commvault. However, the difficulty could be the lack of experience I have had with Veeam Backup Replication."
"Lacks online training."
"The endpoint protection console is not centralized."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup, Veritas NetBackup and Delphix, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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