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 initial setup was not overly complex."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Replication Job base on a source HPE Catalyst store to perform a full reconstruction of our production systems on our third datacenter, which is our DRP Site."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"Veeam is easy to use."
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"It serves its intended purpose and it works well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"The virtual sandboxes seem complex to setup, so I have not invested time in leveraging this feature. It would be nice if this feature was more user-friendly."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
"They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product."
"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."
"Could be improved with hybrid cloud integration backup."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"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."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
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 71 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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