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.
"Once you get it set up, everything is smooth, and the recovery is excellent."
"The restore capabilities are the most valuable features."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. That feature reduced the time needed to complete the task from 25 days to less than a week! This is compared with the original tools used: ntbackup, robocopy and Windows Server Backup."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"Sandbox feature is like a power tool for troubleshooting."
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"Integration with other equipment could be improved."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"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 SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"I have found that the reporting could improve in its structure."
"It could use DR features similar to Zerto."
"The parallel backup process from the Veeam server to Veeam has some limitations. The number of parallel backups should be increased and the compressional is very low. Sometimes it is half or one-third, but other backup solutions' compression levels are very high."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
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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