We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"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."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was very easy. Deployment only took about one hour with configuration and everything considered."
"The most valuable features are backup and restore. This solution is also easy to use."
"The user interface is good. It provides a lot of information."
"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows's most useful features is the ease of use and user-friendly."
"The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved."
"The product is free to use. We don't have to pay for a license."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"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 tool could be faster."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"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."
"Some customers have Oracle databases and Veeam does support back up of Oracle databases."
"In the next release, I would like to see it easier to implement."
"I would like to see the ability for incremental backups and reverse backups."
"The compression ratio and application ratio could still be improved in this solution. Reporting could also be improved, for better monitoring."
"An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing."
"There isn't really anything I would like to improve. Maybe the solution could be more secure."
"The solution lacks instant recovery."
"If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do."
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NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is rated 8.4. 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 Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] writes "Functional application availability". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager.
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