We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Veeam is praised for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. However, there are areas that need improvement such as cost, security, AIX backup, usability, and compatibility. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its integration capabilities, and reliability. It needs improvements in areas such as security vulnerabilities, interface navigation, performance with HA pair model, and monitoring and auto-alerting capabilities. The pricing for both products has received mixed reviews, with Veeam Backup & Replication being considered expensive and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP also being rated as expensive but acceptable by some users.
"The ability to do a straight SnapMirror from our on-prem to the cloud with no other data transitions is excellent."
"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."
"It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure."
"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."
"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."
"The FlexClones make all the management easier for us."
"If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"Most of the features that we can use with HPE products are directly integrated with the Veeam. This is very important for the customers to have only one pane of glass to manage the backups and also use the HPE products for the backups."
"The most valuable feature is that I can back up the whole machine and then restore it relatively fast."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are ease of use, dashboards, and reporting."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."
"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."
"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."
"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."
"The product is more restricted with underlying cloud."
"The cost needs improvement."
"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."
"Near-synchronous, better RPO and RTO snapshot-based takes a lot of space and resources."
"If a single file is corrupt then the restoration of the entire backup will fail."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"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."
"They need to focus more on cloud backup."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 329 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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