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 backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I think that the scalability is very good. We can't compare it."
"Its performance is fine. It supports us very well. It is able to support our policy for RTO, RPO, and other things that we need."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are it is easy to use and manage."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The replication is a key feature."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"We're using both Backup and Replication, Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Office 365. What I am missing is a good graphical user interface between these three products."
"There should be better use of the external hard drives."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"They can improve the features and Veeam Enterprise Manager. The interface and features are kind of limited. It would be good if they can provide more features and a better interface. For example, if I want to provide certain users with the privilege to back up and restore and do day-to-day tasks, I cannot do it in the current version. It is like you either give everything to everyone or no user can have access to anything. In version 9, a lot of features were missing, and it wasn't clear. Version 10 is easier from the communication perspective, and the disk backup option is very clear."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
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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