We performed a comparison between BDRSuite, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."
"Because all our servers are hosted on VMware, the VMware backup is the most valuable feature. The integration and backup with VMware are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the Hyper-V backup - it's just one click. I don't have to worry about it."
"Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us."
"The initial setup is easy and very nice."
"The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup."
"The most important feature, in terms of the hypervisor, is the ability to restore a virtual machine in a matter of minutes. We can take the backup of a virtual machine and we can restore it to the actual Vembu Backup server as a temporary solution, in a matter of minutes. We can just spin up a VM in no time; different hardware, even different processors. It's pretty dynamic in that sense."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"The solution has a user-friendly interface and is easy to configure."
"The chat functionality with Nakivo Support in the web interface is very unique and we love it."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind."
"The implementation of Nakivo made it possible to implement the information security policies currently in force in the company and to meet the statutory requirements in the field of IT security."
"The back-up and restore functions work great and it's easy to use."
"I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night."
"It's one of the easiest products out there, as far as managing and using it go. The UI is pretty dead simple."
"Zerto is intuitive. We could set everything up in the environment within a day and a half and start migrating on the third day."
"Zerto offered a very good front-end GUI for orchestration. The graphic interface was very good."
"The RTO and RPO are unparalleled. In the event you do have an issue, you can be back up and running (depending on the size of your infrastructure) within minutes. Your RTO can be 15 minutes and data loss be five minutes. I don't think that's matched by anybody else in the field."
"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."
"Four years ago when we did a PoC between two other vendors and Zerto, there were two features of Zerto that sold it, hands-down. One was the ease of creating protection groups, the ease with which our engineers could create protection, add virtual machines into the Zerto product, and get them under DR protection."
"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."
"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."
"They can work on their cloud solution. In these days, the data becomes too much and you have to back up a lot of data to the site. They could offer cheaper storage to their clients with the cloud, making this a single source of truth solution. In our project, we are using two service providers: One who offers our storage and another who offers the software. If they work on their cloud solution and can offer their clients lower prices for this type of storage, this would be a really good improvement."
"We are still exploring its features, but we want to see more features that we desire over time."
"Vembu software runs on a Windows Server. The Windows Server has to be connected to the internet so it can connect with Vembu’s servers. It has to connect with Vembu. For some reason, if it doesn't connect, it stops working, and I don't know why on earth they do that. They require it to connect to the internet and connect with Vembu for it to continue to function. If the internet is down or if the server can't reach the internet, it stops working after a few days. That's not great because there are some people who want to do backups but they don't want to have their server accessible on the internet."
"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."
"BDRSuite could improve support for XenApp Citrix Backup."
"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."
"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."
"I have seen that the BDRSuite user interface can be less intuitive and more challenging to navigate compared to other similar products."
"For us, it would be best to improve the speed of the backup instead of adding new features."
"More statistic options would be a great feature."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"It'll help if they offered some automation and more usability for partners."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"Right now we know that Nakivo has the ability to back up as an incremental process and restore backups across several criteria. However, it would be good if we had the ability to backup a system like PostgreSQL."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"I would like Zerto to enhance the continuous backup aspect."
"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."
"With the VPG (virtual protected group) it would be nice if you could pick individuals in the grouping instead of having to failover the whole group."
"The pricing could be a little bit lower."
"Right now, if you have an error, it creates a link that takes you to a website to review information about the problem. It would be nice if Zerto could give you information within the app instead of referring you to a web application."
"It is crucial for Zerto to collaborate closely with VMware in order to promptly test updates."
"It would be nice if we were able to purchase single licenses for Zerto. As it is now, scaling requires that we purchase a multi-pack."
"When we are trying to upgrade any virtual machines, we have to stop the virtual machines that have been replicated in Zerto and then upgrade or update to the virtual machines onsite. Instead of having to do it manually, there should be some way of automating that particular function."