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.
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is adaptability, where it automatically adapts to the environment that it's being installed on."
"It's very easy to work with and it's very reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The solution is very flexible."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"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."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"The solution requires a lot of bandwidth."
"The tech support needs improvement."
"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."
"My biggest issue with Veeam at the moment is how the backup reports are displayed. We use the SolarWinds integration to generate consolidated reports for monitoring purposes, but we aren't getting all the available data shown to us in the way that we want."
"The solution could improve by having more user-friendly dashboards."
"Immutability could be improved."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
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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