We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison due to its robust performance and user-friendly interface. Veeam Backup & Replication also has a significant ROI.
"The features I find most valuable are probably the VMware snapshot backups and the Veeam replication. Their replication is very good. It can easily be used for disaster recovery in a number of situations."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"This is very user-friendly."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"With Replication, Veeam allows us to have a duplicated VM on standby."
"The product is very simple in its design. We don't need it to perform complicated tasks."
"I know it's not exactly a feature, but I accept it works and it's easy to use. With the Veeam Backup & Replication, we have no problems in managing restore. Obviously, the most important thing about backup software. I used to say that every backup software can make backups, but only good ones can make a restore."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The replication functionality only works for VMware environments. Veeam has a backup agent for AIX operating systems, and we will like to see the replication functionality available for the AIX operating system. Additionally, if the backup functionality for AIX to be included in the Veeam console would be an advantage."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
"They need to address the confusing recovery dialogue."
"The tech support needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by having a version to be compatible with the Linux system. They have improved the storage depository using the Linux proxy and Linux storage, but it can completely run on the Linux environment it would be much better."
"Technical support can be improved."
"We would like to see support for some additional storage systems."
"Could offer a better conclusion of the backups."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 328 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". 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". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our VMware SRM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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