We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Veeam is praised for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. However, there are areas that need improvement such as cost, security, AIX backup, usability, and compatibility. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its integration capabilities, and reliability. It needs improvements in areas such as security vulnerabilities, interface navigation, performance with HA pair model, and monitoring and auto-alerting capabilities. The pricing for both products has received mixed reviews, with Veeam Backup & Replication being considered expensive and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP also being rated as expensive but acceptable by some users.
"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."
"One of the most valuable features is its similarity to the physical app, which makes it familiar. It's almost identical to a real NetApp, which means you can run all of the associated NetApp processes and services with it. Otherwise, we would definitely have to deploy some hardware on a site somewhere, which could be a challenge in terms of CapEx."
"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."
"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, simple, and performs well."
"So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage."
"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"Veeam Is very useful for most environments and can scale up in most environments - such as Amazon or Azure."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"It is cost-effective. A lot of times, people pick Veeam because of its price."
"The most valuable feature is the internal recovery."
"The direct SAN backup feature perfectly integrates with our 3PAR storage infrastructure."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."
"It's fairly easy to manage and set up."
"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."
"The cost needs improvement."
"I would like to see something from NetApp about backups. I know that NetApp offers some backup for Office 365, but I would like to see something from NetApp for more backup solutions."
"When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."
"The navigation on some of the configuration parameters is a bit cumbersome, making the learning curve on functions somewhat steep."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"There is room for improvement in the application backups, particularly for Oracle and SaaS systems. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a plugin specifically designed for Oracle and SAP HANA databases. In version twelve, they introduced enhancements that allow deploying the plugin from the backup server. However, manual configuration is still required on each server to schedule the backup and specify the backup repository. Additionally, transitioning from a Windows server to a Linux server requires converting the existing model. Previously, Veeam heavily relied on Windows and Microsoft SQL databases for their solution. Fortunately, in version twelve, they introduced an enhancement by offering the option to use a Postgres SQL database, which is an open-source alternative."
"The automation could be better."
"We would like to see support for some additional storage systems."
"The physical server backups and direct storage connectivity need improvement."
"Veeam Backup & Replication should include a cloud solution."
"It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware."
"Device backup could be improved."
"I cannot recall coming across any features that were lacking."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 328 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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