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.
"Veeam Is very useful for most environments and can scale up in most environments - such as Amazon or Azure."
"Integration with various applications, such as on-premises laptops and desktop backups, as well as applications and databases, is excellent."
"The solution is a user-friendly interface."
"The good thing about Veeam is that its initial setup and usage are straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"One of the most valuable features is the integration. Another good feature is the instant recovery."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"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."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"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."
"Add an archive option to support legal obligations."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"The product is missing some commonsense features and tools for an enterprise backup recovery product,"
"It needs to offer an automatic check for backups."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"During the initial setup especially, there's a bit of a learning curve."
"The cost needs to be considered."
"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."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"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."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
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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