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."The most valuable features of Acronis Backup are cloning and many other capabilities. For example, you are able to clone the whole operating system and drive. Additionally, the solution is a complete package."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"This is a full software so deployment time is very quick."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."
"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."
"The administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."
"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"I can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."
"No technical support and minimal documentation."
"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."
"The initial setup was complex. We had to deploy it through an external consultant team."
"The reporting can be improved."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 5th in Cloud Backup with 117 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 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 N-able Cove Data Protection, 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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