We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Commvault, Zerto and others in Cloud Backup."All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"Some of the most valuable features are recovery, protection against malware, and software management. I am happy with the dashboards and user interface."
"The most valuable features of Acronis Backup are instant restore, antivirus, and ransomware protection. Additionally, the documentation is good."
"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."
"Acronis is a flexible solution. It can back up workstations, endpoints, and even your virtual environments and cloud-based environments. So, we can do the backup of the whole gamut of products."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"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."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"They can include something called a backup appliance. Although Acronis is a software-driven company, it would be good for customers to have some kind of backup appliance on top of a lightweight operating system. This will also reduce the cost. Currently, the customers have to buy the hardware in addition to the operating system, which increases the overhead in terms of procurement."
"The product would be better if they offered more integration capabilities."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"Acronis Backup has a straightforward initial setup process and an easy-to-use interface. However, a potential issue for Acronis partners is that registered partners do not have access to marketing materials, which can make it difficult for them to reach mass markets and sell the product. This could be improved by allowing registered partners to access marketing materials and tools, such as email templates, that would help them to promote Acronis Backup effectively."
"We have issues with the SQL databases which are a little shaky."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 5th in Cloud Backup with 117 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". 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". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Commvault Cloud, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery.
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