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 easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"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."
"They reply immediately to any query raised from us as a technician or consultant and they know the pulse of the market and keep updating the features in such a big way."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"Nakivo's backup and replication product has allowed us to implement a disaster recovery solution with a target repository in the cloud."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"Before using Nakivo Backup & Replication, all our data backup processes took a long time and did not optimize the disk space reserved for backup. With the introduction of Nakivo Backup & Replication, saving times have been reduced by almost half (thanks to the use of several simultaneous transporters) and the space occupied has also had a very important reduction."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"The solution is scalable."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"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."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The replication is a key feature."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"They need to add a failover feature to the Essential Pro license in case the environment is a simple virtual environment and the client does not need to upgrade."
"One of the things I liked least about this software is when an update was pushed to one of the servers we had, somehow we didn't receive the update and needed some quick troubleshooting."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"Implementing more comprehensive data deduplication and compression techniques could optimize storage utilization and reduce backup times, improving overall efficiency."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
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 72 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.
See our list of best Disaster Recovery (DR) Software vendors.
We monitor all Disaster Recovery (DR) Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
