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 setup was straightforward Veeam Backup Replication. NetBackup is a larger solution and takes more time to implement but Veeam Backup Replication takes approximately 40 days."
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"The ntegration of physical agents with our cloud connect service is positive."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"In Veeam backup, the most valuable feature for me is the recovery. It allows me to recover almost immediately while I continue fixing the problem of the affected machine."
"It's fairly easy to manage and set up."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"The peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use. We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"Could be improved with hybrid cloud integration backup."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by making the monitoring system free. If I would like to have any monitoring system by Veeam I have to purchase it. It should come free with the solution. They should provide a monitoring system to make the work easier and smooth."
"I have also been struggling with the storage and in some cases I need to move things due to performance."
"The backup and integration could be improved."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
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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