Compare NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 36 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 18 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Enables us to manage multiple petabytes of storage with a small team, including single node and HA instances". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Integrates Between Server and Replication Station". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, Azure NetApp Files, VMware vSAN, IBM Spectrum Scale and DataCore SANsymphony SDS, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, Nakivo, Cohesity DataProtect, Veritas Backup Exec and VMware SRM. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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There is unified storage, which provides flexibility. It is set up perfectly for performance and provisioning. We are able to monitor everything using a separate application. It provides error and critical warnings that allow us to take immediate action through ONTAP. We are able to manage everything, log a case, and follow up with the support team, who can fix it. That is how it is unified. The feature which I like the most is that it has the capabilities that the traditional storage system offers. It provides all the functionality. The deduplication and compression work exactly like ONTAP's traditional storage. So people who have experience with that find it very easy to manage. The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule. If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise. Its features help us to have a backup of our volumes using the native technology of NetApp ONTAP. That way, we don't have to invest in other solutions for our backup requirement. Also, it helps us to replicate the data to another geographic location so that helps us to save on the costs of backup products. They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done. One of the most valuable features is its similarity to the physical app, which makes it familiar. It's almost identical to a real NetApp, which means you can run all of the associated NetApp processes and services with it. Otherwise, we would definitely have to deploy some hardware on a site somewhere, which could be a challenge in terms of CapEx. This solution provides a unified storage, no matter what kind of data you have. | The most valuable feature is the ability to verify that backups are valid. Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure. Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data. The user interface is good and it is very easy to use. The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well. Very flexible, all-in-one solution. We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work. |
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We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet. When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency. I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively. I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution. The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge. We want to be able to add more than six disks in aggregate, but there is a limit of the number of disks in aggregate. In GCP, they provide less by limiting the sixth disk in aggregate. In Azure, the same solution provides 12 disks in an aggregate versus GCP where it is just half that amount. They should bump up the disk in aggregate requirement so we don't have to migrate the aggregate from one to another when the capacities are full. There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks. The solution is very expensive. Due to its design, It's not cost-efficient versus doing a physical environment of similar size. | We would like to see support for some additional storage systems. Physical backup is always where room for improvement could be but Veeam has always stated they are not going in that direction. Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs. Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have. One challenge that we have encountered was on the long-term retention of data. Be sure to look into a dedicated deduplication appliance. I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM. It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there. Needs better integration with cloud service providers. |
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If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp. Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have. They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy. They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product. For NetApp it's about $20,000 for a single node and $30,000 for the HA. Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two. Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost. Cloud is cloud. It's still expensive. Any good solution comes with a price tag. That's where we are looking to see how well we can manage our data in the cloud by trying to optimize the costs. | Veeam is more reasonably priced than some competing products. We have increased our scalability while being able to free up senior resources from recovery activities. I estimate our overall savings to about $20,000 per year. The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution. The product is competitively priced. The pricing is good and affordable. The price is slightly higher than its competitors. The price is great. It's software related, and I know that might be a good thing because it's a cheap solution to buy and we have been looking for a program for backup and they fit the bill. I would suggest to others that they buy the full license when purchasing this solution. |
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| ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO | Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite |
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Overview | |
The leading enterprise-grade storage management solution, delivers secure, proven storage management services and supports up to a capacity of 368TB. Software service supports various use cases, such as: File shares and block-level storage serving NAS (NFS, SMB / CIFS) and SAN (iSCSI) Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Archive DevOps Databases (SQL, Oracle, NoSQL) Cloud Volumes ONTAP is offered in a standard single-node configuration or in a High Availability (HA) configuration. | Veeam® Availability Suite™ delivers something fundamentally different — Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ — leveraging IT investments in server virtualization, modern storage and the cloud to help organizations meet today’s service-level objectives, enabling recovery of any IT service and related applications and data within seconds and minutes. https://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html |
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Take Control with Unified Cloud Storage Sign up for a 30-day trial to see how Cloud Volumes ONTAP can help you optimize cloud storage costs and performance, while enhancing data enterprise-grade protection, security, and compliance - wherever your data lives. | Learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication |
Sample Customers | |
| Rohit, AdvacnedMD, D2L, Trinity Mirror, Eidos Media, WireStorm, Cordant Group, JFK Medical Center, ALD Automotive, Healthix, City of Baton Rouge, ON Semiconductor | Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company |
Top Industries | |
Healthcare Company28% Energy/Utilities Company12% Comms Service Provider8% Manufacturing Company8% Computer Software Company40% Manufacturing Company14% Comms Service Provider9% Media Company8% | Financial Services Firm16% Government11% Healthcare Company10% Energy/Utilities Company8% Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider13% Government6% Media Company6% |
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Small Business8% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise75% Small Business9% Midsize Enterprise9% Large Enterprise82% | Small Business43% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise29% Small Business21% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise53% |
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