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.
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"Instant recovery, ease of use, and integrations are some of the valuable features."
"The initial setup is simple to do in Veeam Backup Replication."
"It is a good solution for backups and reporting."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"I can't think of any improvements yet for Veeam because they are very good. It integrates very well with Microsoft applications. It is very easy to integrate. Micro Focus can also integrate but it's more complex. You have to know the product very well to be able to integrate. While Veeam, it's very user-friendly. You don't need to have certifications or anything to work on Veeam."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"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."
"I cannot recall coming across any features that were lacking."
"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."
"Lacks online training."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"I have found that the reporting could improve in its structure."
"The replication process is very slow. It takes too long to replicate a virtual machine."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"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."
"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 version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
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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