We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veritas Backup Exec 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."I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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