We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NetApp SnapCenter 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."It is a very mature product."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"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."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"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."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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