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 pricing of the solution is fair."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the new CDP features. It is very popular for my customer's needs."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"The direct SAN backup feature perfectly integrates with our 3PAR storage infrastructure."
"It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The solution is a user-friendly interface."
"The backups we have been receiving from Veeam Backup Replication on-premise have been good."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"We would like to see support for some additional storage systems."
"Its import and export processes for information and policies could be better."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"Near-synchronous, better RPO and RTO snapshot-based takes a lot of space and resources."
"The web interface could be more visual."
"When you have some small issues, you should be able to go through it by yourself and solve the issue instead of opening the ticket and waiting for the engineers to troubleshoot."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"The Veeam portal should be better integrated with all the parts of the new release. But there's always a workaround to replicate the new solution. I'd like to have better integration with other solutions like SAP."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
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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