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.
"It's not complex to replicate and back up the system."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its ease of management, it is not complicated, it is very reliable, has good support and a lot of knowledge on the market for integrators."
"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."
"I have found the backup call feature very good."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"The ability of instant VM recovery, which means starting the backup VM and getting it online while the recovery is still happening is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
"The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."
"The initial setup was not straightforward at all."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"Veeam currently lacks features for backing up to network-attached storage. Veeam Backup & Replication agents do not support S3 storage. Only Veeam Backup & Replication server supports S3 storage."
"I prefer a software backup solution that allows me to easily define my origin data, including data files, folders, and virtual machines."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
"In the future, Veeam should release a hardware backup appliance that can be integrated with their software."
"The pricing could be better."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"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 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 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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