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.
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"One of the most valuable features of Veeam is that the restoration is easy and reliable."
"Sandbox feature is like a power tool for troubleshooting."
"Instant Backup is an useful feature."
"One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of the solution's administration."
"One of the best things about Veeam is that they have consistently improved on themselves since they started. Personally, I've been using Veeam since around 2013/2014 when it was only supporting certain hypervisors such as HyperV, and since then it has become truly mature enterprise-level software with a lot of versatility."
"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."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"It needs to support more applications. In terms of supported applications, Oracle SQL and Office 365 are supported, but I am not sure if it supports Linux-based applications. That's why I'm looking for an alternative. I am currently testing Commvault. The advantage of Commvault is that a lot of applications are supported with it. I am not sure if CIFS is currently supported. It would be nice to have this feature in case it is not already supported"
"If you upgrade too quickly, you may have issues."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"Add an archive option to support legal obligations."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by making the monitoring system free. If I would like to have any monitoring system by Veeam I have to purchase it. It should come free with the solution. They should provide a monitoring system to make the work easier and smooth."
"The pricing model could be improved. It can be made cheaper."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The product's stability could be better."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
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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