We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veritas NetBackup 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."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."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"Veritas NetBackup Automatic Image Replication and CloudCatalyst features allow me to replicate deduped backup images from one site to a remote site, as well as duplicating deduped images to the Cloud (i.e. AWS S3, etc.)"
"The solution offers the hardware and the software at the same time."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"I can rely on this product if I need a restore."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"It's durable — we achieve what we expect from it."
"Good graphical user interface. It's easy to create policies and to do installs."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"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."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"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."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"Veritas NetBackup has some limitations and it would be a benefit if we had better documentation."
"The product needs to improve its GUI. It needs to make use of a web interface."
"NetBackup's reporting features are a little poor."
"I have been involved in upgrades. They have not been straightforward. Some of them have required us to make changes to our architecture and production environment."
"Some of the hardware is out of support."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"The speed of restoring data could be improved."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Delphix, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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