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 that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"No problems with stability."
"Replication is most valuable."
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the new CDP features. It is very popular for my customer's needs."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use, good integration with others solutions, such as Oracle ERP, and by using the UI you can create and achieve operations you want to do."
"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"It is a stable and scalable solution that's easy to operate and restore."
"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 feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"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."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"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."
"The tool could be faster."
"I prefer a software backup solution that allows me to easily define my origin data, including data files, folders, and virtual machines."
"We're using both Backup and Replication, Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Office 365. What I am missing is a good graphical user interface between these three products."
"Offering mobile apps that give engineers a global view of his backup regime would be a "nice to have" feature."
"The more features the solution has the more complex it can be to set up. Veeam Backup & Replication can be complex."
"The price can be a bit expensive."
"Near-synchronous, better RPO and RTO snapshot-based takes a lot of space and resources."
"There needs to be more integration with VMware and the virtual machine."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
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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