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 solution is a user-friendly interface."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"Its stability and scalability were the main reasons for going for this solution. It is highly scalable, and its stability is also powerful. It has a friendly interface, and its monitoring and performance are the best in the market."
"I like all of Veeam's features, but the most important ones are the tape backups and replication. Those are the two options available for us, and it's enough for our needs."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"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."
"The solution is very flexible."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"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."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM."
"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."
"The Veeam backup application interface is application-based and not web-based."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
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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