We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is much easier to control data since we can run queries across all our platforms with just one solution. Not only that, we can also monitor all the platforms with Active IQ, where we can see all the alerts, messages, and space consumption through a single application. This is regardless if the data is on-prem or AWS. It is much more efficient."
"Multiprotocol is the most valuable because Amazon was not able to provide us with access to the same data from Linux and from Windows clients. That was our value proposition for CVO, Cloud Volumes ONTAP."
"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."
"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."
"ONTAP has been very stable for us, specifically in the cloud environment. It allows us to have high availability as well as standalone systems if that's what we want within our specific workloads. Also, on-premise has been a very stable environment. We have very few outages and when we do, we work with support to get systems back online in a timely manner."
"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."
"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs to have customizable pricing options such as 10 TB increments. They seem to have only two options: 10 TB or 250 TB."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
"How it handles erasure coding. I feel it the improvement should be there. Basically, it should be seamless. You don't want to have an underlying hardware issue or something, then suddenly there's no reads or writes. Luckily, it's at a replication site, so our main production site is still working and writing to it. But, the replication site has stopped right now while we try to bring that node back. Since we implemented in bare-metal, not in appliance, we had to go back to the original vendor. They didn't send it in time, and we had a hardware memory issue. Then, we had a hard disk issue, which brought the node down physically."
"The key feature, that we'd like to see in that is the ability to sync between regions within the AWS and Azure regions. We could use the cloud sync service, but we'd really like that native functionality within the cloud volume service."
"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."
"If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things."
"The product's stability could be better."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 60 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". 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". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. VMware SRM report.
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