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.
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"It's very easy to work with and it's very reliable."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"Recovery of backup data is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup for a simple environment is very easy. We just do next, next, next, next for the installation. It can be complicated in a complicated environment. It can be simple for a simple environment. I enjoy installing it. It has a lot of features."
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The solution is consistent."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"The stability for AIX machines could be better."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"The scalability of the product in large organizations is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They need to focus more on cloud backup."
"I have also been struggling with the storage and in some cases I need to move things due to performance."
"Device backup could be improved."
"My main concern about Veeam is that I hope our backups will still be secure in the event of a security incident such as a ransomware attack. In Veeam version 11 they do state that there is ransomware protection, but until it has been proven to be effective, I don't have any assurance that it will prevent data loss."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
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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