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.
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are very good."
"While I do not recall whether the latest version is 10.0 or 11.0 I do know that it allows one to make a back up repository that is very scalable and simple."
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"Its performance is fine. It supports us very well. It is able to support our policy for RTO, RPO, and other things that we need."
"The initial setup for a simple environment is very easy. We just do next, next, next, next for the installation. It can be complicated in a complicated environment. It can be simple for a simple environment. I enjoy installing it. It has a lot of features."
"The solution can work for companies no matter the size or scope."
"The most valuable feature is the instant recovery."
"The solution is consistent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"I only ever found one error. It was when we were doing a file copy job. After using it for ten minutes, it would slow down and cause a bottleneck error."
"It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"The virtual sandboxes seem complex to setup, so I have not invested time in leveraging this feature. It would be nice if this feature was more user-friendly."
"Needs better integration with cloud service providers."
"Pricing can be improved."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
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 71 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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