We performed a comparison between NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Software Defined Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."
"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."
"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."
"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."
"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."
"I like how you can easily pair on-prem with the cloud and the cloud backup feature. I like the whole integration with on-prem and the cloud for SnapMirror relationships."
"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."
"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"I'm very happy with the solution, the only thing that needs improvement is the web services API. It could be a little bit more straightforward. That's my only issue with it. It can get pretty complex."
"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."
"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."
"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."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"The integration wizard requires a bit of streamlining. There are small things that misconfigure or repeat the deployment that will create errors, specifically in Azure."
"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."
"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Software Defined Storage with 60 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 70 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. 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 VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. VMware SRM report.
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