We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veritas NetBackup 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."The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"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."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create a trust relationship and historical reports."
"The main features of this solution are deduplication, compression, ease of use, simplistic user interface, and compatibility with all the backup service systems."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"It is essential. We can't do without it."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"The backup and restore features work very well."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"Data restoration from Veritas NetBackup is quite slow. I would also like documentation that I can share with my technical team."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Support for the solution needs improvement."
"DDBoost."
"The backup operation interface is not as mature as those of Veritas's competitors and has room for improvement."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and is in need of improvement."
"The solution costs too much."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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