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 backup process finishes very quickly."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"The reporting feature has been particularly beneficial to upper management... When you do manual backups, you do not get the benefit of seeing successes and failures and how often you have to do restores. With SnapCenter, you get all of that."
"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."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"The solution is easy to use and have good performance."
"In terms of most valuable features, we are mostly using the Cloud Connect feature. It is flexible because you can use it on-prem and on cloud."
"Very reliable and easy to use."
"Integration with various applications, such as on-premises laptops and desktop backups, as well as applications and databases, is excellent."
"The solution offers the normal benefits of a virtual machine versus a physical, actual machine. It doesn't take up space, for example."
"It is cost-effective. A lot of times, people pick Veeam because of its price."
"Recovery of backup data is the most valuable feature."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"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."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"The tool could be faster."
"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."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"The cloud backups from Veeam Backup Replication have not been good. Addiotnaally, the backups of Office 365 and the overall performance can always be improved."
"The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud."
"When you want to restore files, you first need to restore the machine, and then you have to mount it, and then restore the files."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"If you upgrade too quickly, you may have issues."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
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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