We performed a comparison between Commvault and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Veeam Backup Replication seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers found Commvault difficult to deploy and rather expensive to purchase. Veeam did better in these categories.
"Commvault is very simple to use and it is automated."
"Commvault Backup & Recovery's search utility is its most valuable feature."
"Complete Data Protection is convenient because you can manage various types of databases, and it's pretty easy to set it up."
"Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution."
"The solution also provides me with a complete view of our data. I write scripts to report information from the Command Center daily. I report it in HTML and have the status of the last day for the whole environment."
"This solution gives me the full insight without having to use other products, metrics, or reporting tools."
"It is just about as flexible as you can get; simple. You can put it anywhere you want. You can put it on-prem or in your cloud. I could see where a team that's looking for more of a follow the bouncy ball type of solution might get a little confused. "Oh, no. What do you mean I might have to do it this way or I can't do it that way?" Sometimes, people just want to be told what to do. For an enterprise environment, like we are at NDOT, everything we do is not standard. It is not industry standard; it is not normal. We have all kinds of one-offs. We do need flexibility in the solutions that we get. I will say that Metallic has been extremely flexible in that sense, where we are able to follow the bouncy ball if we wanted to. Obviously, we didn't. We did it our way and Metallic, as a whole solution, provided that to us with no issues."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."
"The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication."
"The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely."
"One of the most valuable features is the integration. Another good feature is the instant recovery."
"The pricing of the solution is fair."
"They provide good technical support and we are satisfied with the support we have received."
"Most of the features that we can use with HPE products are directly integrated with the Veeam. This is very important for the customers to have only one pane of glass to manage the backups and also use the HPE products for the backups."
"Very user-friendly and easily recoverable."
"Support for this product needs to be improved because I have seen a couple of cases where it is taking more than the required time to solve issues."
"Endpoint backup."
"Our customers complain that this is a difficult product to manage."
"Just to keep it running is time-consuming. There are five people on my team. Commvault was supposed to be one of the less time-consuming solutions, but in reality it takes 60 percent of our time just to keep it running, and that's not even fine-tuning it; that's just to keep it running."
"If I were to ask them to work on something, it would be the fidelity of the alerts that occur. They should tell me if it is a real event or not. It is easy for it to identify that something hit it but give me more information. They can build AI into the engine so that I get better output from an alert to tell me if I should really be interested in that or not."
"The functional integration could be better."
"Commvault Complete Data Protection would benefit from improving their training resources."
"They need to improve when it comes to large, video file archiving. They're good, but they have not met my expectations as a customer in this area."
"We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide."
"The tech support needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the application backups, particularly for Oracle and SaaS systems. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a plugin specifically designed for Oracle and SAP HANA databases. In version twelve, they introduced enhancements that allow deploying the plugin from the backup server. However, manual configuration is still required on each server to schedule the backup and specify the backup repository. Additionally, transitioning from a Windows server to a Linux server requires converting the existing model. Previously, Veeam heavily relied on Windows and Microsoft SQL databases for their solution. Fortunately, in version twelve, they introduced an enhancement by offering the option to use a Postgres SQL database, which is an open-source alternative."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"I only ever found one error. It was when we were doing a file copy job. After using it for ten minutes, it would slow down and cause a bottleneck error."
"The price can be a bit expensive."
"Veeam currently lacks features for backing up to network-attached storage. Veeam Backup & Replication agents do not support S3 storage. Only Veeam Backup & Replication server supports S3 storage."
"I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 56 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Perfect match for complex environments, as it supports all types of infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Simple deployment, exceptional restore capability, and seamlessly data recovery". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, Cohesity DataProtect and Zerto, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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