Compare NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 4th in Cloud Backup with 24 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 22 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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, VMware vSAN and IBM Spectrum Scale, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, VMware SRM and Commvault. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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The product is stable, easy to deploy and it just works. For us, the value comes from the solution's flexibility, speed, and hopefully cost savings in the long term. The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all. The stability has been really good. The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication. This solution has helped us because it is easy to use. 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. This solution has made everything easier to do. | 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. 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. Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. 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. It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days. |
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We had a few small issues with setup, but once everything was done it just worked. I would like this solution to be brought to all the three major players. Right now it's supported only on AWS and Azure. They should bring it to Google as well, because we would like to have flexibility in choosing the underlying cloud storage provider. In the next release, I would like to see more options on the dashboard. NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance. Only AWS and Azure public clouds are currently available from China, and I would like to see support for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud). I would like to see better integration with Active IQ. I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper. Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration. | 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. 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. Physical backup is always where room for improvement could be but Veeam has always stated they are not going in that direction. Needs better integration with cloud service providers. 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. |
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Depending on the licensing you choose the price varies. For our company and our needs, the cost is very fair. 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. I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs. In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer. The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company. They allow a special price if you are working closely with them. Since we have a lot of NetApp systems, we got some kind of discount. That's something they do for other customers, not just for us. The price was fair. In addition to the licensing fees, you're paying Amazon for your usage... | The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution. 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 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. Setup cost and licensing of Veeam are nothing to complain about when compared to similar products for enterprise backup recovery solutions. |
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| ONTAP Cloud | Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite |
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| NetApp | Veeam Software |
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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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 Company26% Energy/Utilities Company13% Pharma/Biotech Company9% Manufacturing Company9% Software R&D Company36% Manufacturing Company23% Comms Service Provider7% Financial Services Firm5% | Financial Services Firm15% Government12% Healthcare Company10% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company28% Comms Service Provider10% Manufacturing Company7% Retailer6% |
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Small Business9% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise71% | Small Business44% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise28% Small Business16% Midsize Enterprise37% Large Enterprise47% |
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