We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapMirror and Quest QoreStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."The solution is very stable."
"With SnapMirror, the solution is the feature itself that is most valuable. It just replicates the data. It's very difficult to speak about, in the sense that it's similar to the features of a wheel. It is round and it's a part of an automobile."
"The technology enables us to have a safe backup."
"The performance and stability are valuable features. It seems to fulfill all the requirements."
"NetApp SnapMirror's ease of use and reliability are valuable features."
"NetApp is one of the best products in this field of storage solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the data replication tool. There is also a lot of ability for data migration."
"The tool seamlessly moves data over the network without putting pressure on the network."
"Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future."
"QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor."
"It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes."
"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices."
"The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression."
"If they can make the application free like other vendors or include it in all the packages, it would be great."
"We must be able to integrate Flash Pool with SnapMirror."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The user interface could be simplified. They might want to have fewer options on it, to make it less complicated. There are a lot of options we never use ourselves. They're often very specialized and don't apply to us."
"Compression and deduplication could be improved."
"It's necessary to install NetApp simulator to avoid complications."
"It is not as efficient as it needs to be. It doesn't compress the data really well when it is forwarded to a secondary site. The download performance could be better."
"We have to do manual verifications about the subscriptions often."
"The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install."
"The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive."
"The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement."
"They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."
"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have."
"The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."
NetApp SnapMirror is ranked 2nd in Data Replication with 23 reviews while Quest QoreStor is ranked 20th in Data Replication with 6 reviews. NetApp SnapMirror is rated 8.8, while Quest QoreStor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapMirror writes "Protects our data during any emergency or disaster". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest QoreStor writes "Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups". NetApp SnapMirror is most compared with NetApp Snapshot, Hitachi TrueCopy and Dell AppSync, whereas Quest QoreStor is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost.
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