We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The data protection itself is very good compared to other products."
"It is just about as flexible as you can get; simple. You can put it anywhere you want. You can put it on-prem or in your cloud. I could see where a team that's looking for more of a follow the bouncy ball type of solution might get a little confused. "Oh, no. What do you mean I might have to do it this way or I can't do it that way?" Sometimes, people just want to be told what to do. For an enterprise environment, like we are at NDOT, everything we do is not standard. It is not industry standard; it is not normal. We have all kinds of one-offs. We do need flexibility in the solutions that we get. I will say that Metallic has been extremely flexible in that sense, where we are able to follow the bouncy ball if we wanted to. Obviously, we didn't. We did it our way and Metallic, as a whole solution, provided that to us with no issues."
"The most important feature is that everything can be controlled using a single console."
"It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."
"The most valuable feature is sharing data sets like they're in a private cloud. We call it our "private cloud" because we can share anything that is inside our backup set with our colleagues or with other people, and yet, everything is still in Belgrade, in Serbia. It's not somewhere else on cloud servers. Everything is in our environment."
"It integrates redundant storage and preserves jams in a storage area, providing up to 70% compression rate."
"Commvault is both very stable and scalable."
"The most valuable features of Commvault HyperScale X are all the general functions and the performance."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The integration of Metallic could improve. It would be a benefit if Metallic could integrate with multiple applications or platforms."
"The solution requires constant attention. Commvault is very complex. We are constantly making adjustments and working through hotfixes, updates, and issues."
"They can improve the VMware recovery and VMware backup. There is an improvement area on the VMware infrastructure. They can make available what they call a VSA proxy. They can have an appliance-type setup to deploy VSA backups and help recover quicker. They can have an appliance ready. Instead of having to have a server dedicated to that and installing software on a server, they can just provide an actual appliance for that."
"Support for this product needs to be improved because I have seen a couple of cases where it is taking more than the required time to solve issues."
"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."
"The solution requires improvement with its connection and bandwidth."
"There is room for improvement in terms of data security."
"I would like them not to push Command Center. It is good, but I would like them to enable all the features for the Java console. Some things are not in the Java console, like Office 365 agents. In fact, they are there, but one of the engineers had to show me how to configure it. It's not done the same as in the Command Center."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 104 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and AWS Backup, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and JetStream DR. See our Commvault Cloud vs. VMware SRM report.
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