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 granular restoration that it provides for a business application is most valuable. For example, for Exchange, we can restore a single mailbox or email. We can also do SQL Server restoration and bare-metal recovery for operating systems."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"The technical support is good."
"It's scalable."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"I like that the solution is very simple to install."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."
"It would be preferable if they could introduce a complete Linux version instead of relying solely on Microsoft for management. There should be a unified integration of all their products. Currently, there are various products like cloud backup and others that exist separately. It would be better if they could create a single comprehensive platform or product, as opposed to having disparate products that lack proper communication between them."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"The one downside to Veeam is that they don't have a cloud product of their own."
"A backup and replication solution should be able to back up a system and do recovery very fast. Even though Veeam Backup & Replication is able to meet most of our needs, it would be better if they can make it faster for backup and restore."
"The ability to do more backups should be addressed."
"I would prefer it if the backup console did not require use of a specified program but rather that it could be opened from any website."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
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, Veritas NetBackup and Zerto, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery, Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our VMware SRM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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