We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Commvault, Zerto and others in Cloud Backup."It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly."
"The pricing is fine."
"Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it backs up my systems transparently in the background, and I'm not even conscious of it."
"It is fast and easy for an image-based backup across all platforms."
"I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware."
"I have not used other backup solutions to compare how well the features work but I have found Acronis Backup to be user-friendly, overall easy to use, and performance is good."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"The solution is consistent."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"It supports Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, but it does not support Oracle databases or Postgres."
"A little bit more integration would be good. It should support broader platforms."
"It would be better if they made it easier to obtain images for laptops and desktops. It isn't easy right now to have many different types of desktop computers. This is because Microsoft is changing a lot of things in Windows 10."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"In some cases, at the time of reinstallation, some disasters happen. For the licensing on the computer the name of the computer and domain, everything is removed from the registry level. Then we have to install the Acronis from the start for it to work properly. Otherwise, the Acronis software will cause a lot of trouble at the time of reinstallation. That's where they need to improve the product. In the case people want to install the same software with the same hardware, it should not stop me."
"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."
"It would be nice if it could support more types of storage: EMC, HPE, Veeam, etc."
"No technical support and minimal documentation."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 5th in Cloud Backup with 117 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". 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". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery.
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