We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The backup for physical machines and replication for the virtual environment are the most valuable aspects."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The simplicity of installation and the intuitive user interface have made it easy for our team to quickly set up and manage the backups without requiring extensive training."
"The automatic backup and replication features are invaluable, saving us time and resources by automating routine backup tasks and ensuring data protection without manual intervention."
"The interface is basic and very easy to use which is what we are looking for."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"We'd like to see more cooperation with Synology. It can be enhanced to get updates published faster to Synology's store."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"The interface might be improved, but the interface of every product might be improved."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Amazon S3."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"Implementing more comprehensive data deduplication and compression techniques could optimize storage utilization and reduce backup times, improving overall efficiency."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"My major issue is when I upgrade. I have to touch every last client that I have in SnapCenter, and right now I have 60... They said that in another release that will get better, but right now it's not better and I've had to do this three times."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 85 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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