We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"It can be quickly configured via web pages."
"NAKIVO is easy to use and pretty easy to set up."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"This product has a very clean and intuitive GUI."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."
"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."
"I would love to see BackBlaze B2 implementation in the future, as that would be our preferred cloud destination, but Amazon and Wasabi are both very great choices in the meantime."
"They need to add a failover feature to the Essential Pro license in case the environment is a simple virtual environment and the client does not need to upgrade."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"There is a lack of native (web-based) update functionality."
"It would be helpful to be able to have a custom footprint so that only the required features are installed."
"It would be great if they had a Let's Encrypt integration."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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