We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"This product has a very clean and intuitive GUI."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night."
"This product has helped to centralize backups and made it easy to recover data."
"The upgrade process is manual but very simple to do."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"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."
"There is a familiar error that pops up and that is a VM error as much as it is a Nakivo error. It says that the job couldn't calm the VM and restores might be impacted. That error is, to say the least, a bit scary. I have seen this type of error on other backup systems also."
"Integrations maybe helpful for NAKIVO. I think end-to-end backup and user backup will be useful to have. The price could be reduced as well. I also think that AD integration should be more available."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"It would be great if they had a Let's Encrypt integration."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
"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."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"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."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM 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 VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. VMware SRM report.
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