We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Unitrends 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."Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The reporting feature has been particularly beneficial to upper management... When you do manual backups, you do not get the benefit of seeing successes and failures and how often you have to do restores. With SnapCenter, you get all of that."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Unitrends report.
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