We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Backup 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."One feature that works well for us is that the Cloud Manager is a completely agentless solution. There's a similar dashboard on both the versions for on-premises and the cloud, and with reference to the Cloud Manager, it's a little faster because there's nothing to be installed as such. Being agentless, it doesn't require any agent to be deployed on the targets where the backups are triggered."
"Scalability is very good."
"NetApp Cloud Backup performance is good and they have beneficial technology."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"NetApp Cloud Backup could improve by being easier to use. Veeam solution is easier to use."
"One area that can be improved is around how we define the different KPIs. In particular, the business KPIs. I have my own in-house application for the business KPIs, so for example, with our policies around retention, which is a period of seven years, I have to read these parameters from other applications and I need them to integrate well."
"Integration and reporting could be improved."
"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."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"The compatibility with other manufacturers, like Oracle and Hyper-V, could be improved. I would like to see it be more compatible with other software."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."
NetApp Cloud Backup is ranked 56th in Backup and Recovery while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. NetApp Cloud Backup is rated 7.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Backup writes "Simplifies our backups with an agentless backup manager, but needs better integration with in-house applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". NetApp Cloud Backup is most compared with Dell NetWorker, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, AWS Storage Gateway and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Delphix. See our NetApp Cloud Backup vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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