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 product allows us to use data more efficiently, reducing the cost of storage and backup time. It is vital to have data available in the shortest possible time."
"The integration with some storage systems like HP or Nutanix and great support are the most valuable features. You get productivity support. You get a response within one hour, even in the evening or night. The functionality of the whole software is good."
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"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."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its ease of management, it is not complicated, it is very reliable, has good support and a lot of knowledge on the market for integrators."
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"Instant Backup is an useful feature."
"I enjoy the ability to quickly search for VMs through the Veeam console."
"The solution is very flexible."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long"
"The automation could be better."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"In Linux, I suggest you backup for a PostgreSQL database."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
"The tech support could be better."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"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 user experience could be more friendly."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
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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