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.
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"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."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery. The ease of use and reliability of this solution are real assets. Also, it has an ease of use to work with a third party vendor."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The solution does a good job with VM backups."
"The solution offers the normal benefits of a virtual machine versus a physical, actual machine. It doesn't take up space, for example."
"The solution is scalable."
"The replication is a key feature."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"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."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"In the past, Veeam had a host-based license, but now it will be part of Microsoft's core license. I don't like this licensing model. Host-based licensing is better for my system. Maybe so other organizations prefer the core-based."
"I would want them to improve some technical features that are still missing because we are working with NetApp NVMe and they're not fully supporting it yet. But both NetApp and Veeam know about it and they're working on it."
"The automation could be better."
"One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance."
"When in a domain, the virus can easily attack the Veeam server, something which happened to us."
"The solution is rather weak when it comes to database integration."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
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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