We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison due to its robust performance and user-friendly interface. Veeam Backup & Replication also has a significant ROI.
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"From my experience, Veeam is very good. Its interface is user-friendly. We can restore it whenever. It's not complicated. It's very easy to manage and administration is very easy."
"They introduced a new feature called the Immutable Repository feature, which helps protect environments from malware attacks that target backup file extensions."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"The ntegration of physical agents with our cloud connect service is positive."
"It integrates easily with third-party solutions compared to other vendors."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"We would like to have the ability to perform more things on the web interface. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"Could be improved with hybrid cloud integration backup."
"The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud."
"The solution could improve by having more user-friendly dashboards."
"The replicating from Veeam Backup Replication to Azure cloud could be improved."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"The product's stability could be better."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 329 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". 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". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our VMware SRM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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