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 rate of duplication is great."
"We have multiple workloads, including SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA, especially Sybase, as well as file systems, VMs, and Exchange mailboxes. Commvault provides very good support for them."
"They have a strong development team and are market leaders in the space."
"The granularity of the Office 365 Backup & Recovery feature is very good. We've used all of it, recovering data from each of the four systems that we back up with it, and it works very well."
"The most valuable feature of Metallic is its flexibility and user-friendly."
"Complete Data Protection is convenient because you can manage various types of databases, and it's pretty easy to set it up."
"The most valuable features of Commvault HyperScale X are all the general functions and the performance."
"The backup and restore capabilities are key. The most useful things to us about Commvault, in general, is the breadth of the applications that it can protect as well as the features inside of it, like deduplication and encryption. When people get their data encrypted, Commvault has a way to tell if somebody is being attacked through a cybersecurity threat because their data changes. So, Commvault has what they call honeypot files out there to look to see if anybody is changing these files. Only Commvault knows which files those are, so nobody should be messing with those files. If it changes, then it will alert you to say, "Oh, I potentially have somebody messing with my files." It will alert you to something going on in your environment that probably shouldn't be happening. We deploy that with all our customers so they have this capability as well."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"I like how Veeam intuitively integrates with Zerto."
"It's very easy to work with and it's very reliable."
"We have evaluated other solutions but Veeam is the best for virtualization."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."
"The integration of Metallic could improve. It would be a benefit if Metallic could integrate with multiple applications or platforms."
"The initial setup was complex."
"With respect to the cloud, they need to offer more integrations."
"The main area for improvement is that we sometimes experience negative effects from their updates. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help."
"You can't change Metallic's retention policies without contacting the Commvault support team."
"The solution requires improvement with its connection and bandwidth."
"Endpoint backup."
"What I need is deeper CLI documentation for both QCommand and SQL queries."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"I would like to see more broad support for other applications such as databases, or other operating systems."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced solutions for database backup, particularly for Oracle databases in the context of SAP systems."
"Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long"
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."
"In the next release, I would like replication directly to the cloud to be included."
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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