We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The emphasis isn't specifically on a particular feature, but rather on the ease of use. For instance, when building a test lab or setting up an entire environment from scratch, VMware products are notably more user-friendly compared to alternatives like Nutanix. I've had prior experience with Nutanix. From my personal perspective, I found it easier to adapt to using VMware than when I started using Dynamics. This ease of use is a strong point. It's largely about how straightforward it is to navigate through VMware's user interface. In contrast, with Nutanix, there's a need to delve into smaller configurations and navigate vendor-specific settings. VMware, on the other hand, offers a more accessible management page. This difference primarily centres around usability and the overall user-friendliness of the interface."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The solution could be more stable."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and KVM.
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