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.
"Recovery of backup data is the most valuable feature."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"It serves its intended purpose and it works well."
"Replication is most valuable."
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"The features I find most valuable are probably the VMware snapshot backups and the Veeam replication. Their replication is very good. It can easily be used for disaster recovery in a number of situations."
"Its stability and scalability were the main reasons for going for this solution. It is highly scalable, and its stability is also powerful. It has a friendly interface, and its monitoring and performance are the best in the market."
"Veeam Backup Replication is stable I have not had any problems."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"Veeam Backup Replication is a bit difficult to use. If you have used other solutions such as Commvault, you will find it is much easier to use. Veeam Backup Replication does backups in a different way that is not as simple as other solutions. Doing backups of SQL Servers is much easier in Commvault. However, the difficulty could be the lack of experience I have had with Veeam Backup Replication."
"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."
"The pricing model could be improved. It can be made cheaper."
"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."
"Pricing can be improved."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having more comparably with other hardware with the immutable copy feature."
"Lacks online training."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
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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