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 most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The initial setup was not overly complex."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are ease of use, dashboards, and reporting."
"Veeam communicates with the vCenter in VMware, which means it's very smooth and doesn't interrupt production on VMware and you can backup or restore anytime, anywhere."
"The ability to offload backup snapshots to the SAN helps with reducing the backup durations."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The solution is consistent."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"The pricing model could be improved. It can be made cheaper."
"In the future, Veeam should release a hardware backup appliance that can be integrated with their software."
"It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
"The ease of use could be improved, but I don't have a very deep amount of experience in Veeam, so it's difficult to say what could be improved."
"Device backup could be improved."
"There is a lot of room for improvement, but the primary issue we have is that it's not built for the cloud."
"The pricing could be better."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
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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