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 user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
"It's got a very good user-friendly interface. It's easy to use."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use, good integration with others solutions, such as Oracle ERP, and by using the UI you can create and achieve operations you want to do."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"From my experience, Veeam is very good. Its interface is user-friendly. We can restore it whenever. It's not complicated. It's very easy to manage and administration is very easy."
"This is very user-friendly."
"The solution works well in two different environments, whether it is on-premises, cloud, or a combination."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The solution is consistent."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"I prefer a software backup solution that allows me to easily define my origin data, including data files, folders, and virtual machines."
"There needs to be more integration with VMware and the virtual machine."
"Veeam Backup Replication has agents for Linux, but they are not supporting Cluster Shared Volumes. It would be great to have agents for Linux be cluster-aware, just like the Windows agents. That's the main pain point. In addition, we should be able to handle the automation of Oracle backups from the backup server. We should be able to schedule, control, and deploy them from the backup server rather than relying on scripts and/or the system you are backing up to perform the backup. Currently, we install the plug-in inside Oracle VMs and then use crontabs to handle the task schedule on each machine for scheduling the backups. Veeam Backup Replication should also support the automation of Nutanix backups from the backup server, not from the proxy. The other not so major thing is that they don't support legacy systems because Veeam is a new company. It is not as old as other companies. They don't support physical workloads that are really old, which a major challenge, but they do have a point. Legacy systems should be virtualized, and if they're virtualized, then the backup is not an issue with Veeam, but some customers like the physical setup, and they don't want to have it virtual."
"The pricing could be better."
"We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
"The integration with other solutions should be improved."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
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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