We performed a comparison between Azure Backup 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."You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"Azure Backup is good because it is entirely cloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe."
"The hardware is always updated and it's saved us a lot of money."
"With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"Our client’s infrastructure is protected by the tool."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"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."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"We faced some issues synchronizing the information in Azure when the storage was changed."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"The user interface is a little bit confusing and it could be better."
"Azure Backup could improve by offering better integration for Oracle databases and enhancing features like granular restore and backup compliance capabilities."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
"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."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Delphix. See our Azure Backup vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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