We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Veeam is praised for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. However, there are areas that need improvement such as cost, security, AIX backup, usability, and compatibility. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its integration capabilities, and reliability. It needs improvements in areas such as security vulnerabilities, interface navigation, performance with HA pair model, and monitoring and auto-alerting capabilities. The pricing for both products has received mixed reviews, with Veeam Backup & Replication being considered expensive and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP also being rated as expensive but acceptable by some users.
"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."
"We're using snapshots as well and it's a pretty useful feature. That is one of the main NetApp benefits. Knowing how to use snapshots in the on-prem environment, using snapshots on the cloud solution was natural for us."
"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."
"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."
"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."
"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."
"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."
"It's the most easy-to-use backup replication that I have used so far."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are it is easy to use and manage."
"It is cost-effective. A lot of times, people pick Veeam because of its price."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"The product is very simple in its design. We don't need it to perform complicated tasks."
"Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware."
"With regard to our operational requirements, Veeam is very good because it's so user-friendly."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."
"I think the challenge now is more in terms of keeping an air gap. The notion that it is in the cloud, easy to break, etc. The challenge now is mostly about the air gap and how we can protect that in the cloud."
"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."
"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."
"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."
"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."
"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 encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The pricing could be better."
"The cloud part of it can be improved. There should be an option for Veeam in your own cloud, as compared to the Veeam cloud offering that's currently there. The rest of it is easy."
"The replicating from Veeam Backup Replication to Azure cloud could be improved."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 328 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Zerto. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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