We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is affordable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"Nakivo offers direct support through the graphical interface and this is great to have if you need quick help."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"For my purpose, I find VM Backup to be the most useful, as it gives me the ability to create image-based, incremental backups of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV VMs."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The features that we like the most are the Backup Copy and Active Directory Integration. They have helped us to save a lot of time since we do not have to make the backup copies “by hand”."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"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."
"Compression and data deduplication are okay, but they could be improved."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"It would be good to have some Oracle database backup capability from the Linux OS in the next release."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"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 upgrade process is a bit dated and could use some changes."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM 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 VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. VMware SRM report.
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