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.
"It is a global major solution for quite a lot of people."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"One of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is its exceptional restore capability, enabling users to recover their data seamlessly. Another valuable functionality is the automated verification of backup restorations, made possible through the Sure Backup feature. The software boasts numerous other noteworthy features that offer immense value, including the NAS backup feature."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Very flexible, all-in-one solution."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"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."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The solution is scalable."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The stability for AIX machines could be better."
"Immutability could be improved."
"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."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"The solution could improve by having more user-friendly dashboards."
"My main concern about Veeam is that I hope our backups will still be secure in the event of a security incident such as a ransomware attack. In Veeam version 11 they do state that there is ransomware protection, but until it has been proven to be effective, I don't have any assurance that it will prevent data loss."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 17 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 27 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Simple deployment, exceptional restore capability, and seamlessly data recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Robust reliability tool ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for virtualized environments". 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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