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.
"With Replication, Veeam allows us to have a duplicated VM on standby."
"Replication is most valuable."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"One of the most valuable features is the incremental backup. It is, of course, perfect because you have a lot of restore points, but you don't need all the space. The stability is also perfect."
"With regard to our operational requirements, Veeam is very good because it's so user-friendly."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Good compression when storing data."
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The solution is very flexible."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"The price could be lower."
"The solution requires a lot of bandwidth."
"I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection."
"Veeam Backup & Replication could improve by making it more user-friendly."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"The documentation and communication could be better in Veeam Backup Replication."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"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."
"The product's stability could be better."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
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 69 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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