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 peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use. We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates."
"Initially setting up the product is easy."
"Its portability and being able to back up between different platforms 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 backups we have been receiving from Veeam Backup Replication on-premise have been good."
"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."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"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."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"I would like to see more broad support for other applications such as databases, or other operating systems."
"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."
"The web interface could be more visual."
"The solution needs more detailed reporting."
"We would like to have the ability to perform more things on the web interface. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud."
"Could offer a better conclusion of the backups."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"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."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"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."
"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 70 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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