We performed a comparison between Commvault and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Veeam Backup Replication seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers found Commvault difficult to deploy and rather expensive to purchase. Veeam did better in these categories.
"The 1-Touch recovery feature is helpful for all customers."
"The cloud integration is a massive win for us, giving us a single backup service for all of our on-premise and cloud systems."
"The multi-tenancy is the most valuable feature for us because it's the only software that is fully multi-tenant and that has all the features we need to provide to all our tenants. It provides us with advanced features for MySQL and Oracle, among other platforms"
"The most valuable features of Commvault HyperScale X are all the general functions and the performance."
"One valuable feature is unlimited backup. You can back up existing users and folders."
"The Command Center is provided from the web interface. You can back up the data for everybody, but also you can give everybody the ability to view and restore their data. For example, if a laptop, machine, or environment is owned by X, then X can look in and see the environment and data that he has backed up. He can see everything that he owns and can manage the environment as he wishes. It gives him an excellent view of his environment and infrastructure. Also, if you are a service provider, you can back up data for multiple companies and give everyone an interface for their environment to manage, backup, and restore data. Commvault has done excellent work in this area."
"What is most valuable to me are the search features, where you can search through large backup data sets and find what you're looking for. Our data sets are so big that we're over the petabyte mark. To find a specific file for a specific user out of 10,000 users is a challenge... If we can glean from them a general description of where it might be, the search feature comes in very handy to actually locate it and restore it for them."
"We switched to Commvault because we were looking to centralize management. This reduced IT administrator time as well as providing stability and reliability for data backups in a single console."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a scalable solution."
"They introduced a new feature called the Immutable Repository feature, which helps protect environments from malware attacks that target backup file extensions."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Its portability and being able to back up between different platforms are the most valuable features."
"Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"I like that the solution is very simple to install."
"The product could be more convenient in terms of working with different solutions and having more integration between the different products in the market."
"I would assess the Command Center as a very useful but sometimes difficult tool. It is multipurpose. It has all the features of logging and monitoring, especially for the actual setup. For us, it is easy because we work daily with it, but for customers who only use it once a week, they sometimes have some difficulties. Command Center is not user-friendly for beginners."
"Commvault's price is quite high."
"It takes a lot of technical expertise to implement. Commvault could increase the training it provides to customers and partners."
"When we started using Commvault, we felt that there were some technical issues with managing it, but we are comfortable enough with managing it now. There were many issues, like index corrupting, when we first started, but all those issues were resolved by the Commvault tech team."
"Mostly controls, visibility, cost allocation."
"The product is a bit complex."
"I think the one thing that could be improved is the customer experience. The interface should be more user friendly."
"One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance."
"Backup speed should be increased, and there should be more functionality."
"I prefer a software backup solution that allows me to easily define my origin data, including data files, folders, and virtual machines."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"The solution requires a lot of bandwidth."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 104 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, Zerto and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and VMware SRM. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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