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 technical support is good."
"The replication feature has proven to be the most valuable feature for us."
"Simple and stable."
"Very flexible, all-in-one solution."
"It integrates easily with third-party solutions compared to other vendors."
"Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware."
"Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The solution is consistent."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"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."
"It could use DR features similar to Zerto."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"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 stability for AIX machines could be better."
"They need to address the confusing recovery dialogue."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It could be simpler to use."
"The integration with other solutions should be improved."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
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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