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.
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"I am not a direct user of this product, but my technical guys tell me that they like the product, and it is easy to use. We don't have any issues with it."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"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."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"There are many valuable features, for example how Copy Job is controlling the band with accelerators. The Enterprise Manager is a valuable feature. There are many very useful features. We can push in the market, because we have an advantage over the other solutions."
"The replication is a key feature."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware."
"The price can be a bit expensive."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"In the next release, I would like replication directly to the cloud to be included."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"Pricing can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
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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