We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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."The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"This solution was surprisingly easy to configure."
"Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories."
"We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"They reply immediately to any query raised from us as a technician or consultant and they know the pulse of the market and keep updating the features in such a big way."
"We spend less time to get data recovered."
"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 simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"For us, it would be best to improve the speed of the backup instead of adding new features."
"In the future, the solution should provide a more granular backup."
"I would love to see compatibility with KVM Backup."
"The upgrade process is a bit dated and could use some changes."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"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."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"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."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"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."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 85 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while NetApp SnapCenter 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 NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Delphix. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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