We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The virtual appliance for VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and we have no need for additional Windows licenses."
"It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems."
"Nakivo offers direct support through the graphical interface and this is great to have if you need quick help."
"The backup and replication are great."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"The updates are problem-free, so we can keep Nakivo up to date on the server and NAS too."
"The upgrade process is manual but very simple to do."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
"While Nakivo delivers comprehensive solutions, there's room for enhancement, particularly regarding Proxmox support."
"Integrations maybe helpful for NAKIVO. I think end-to-end backup and user backup will be useful to have. The price could be reduced as well. I also think that AD integration should be more available."
"In the press releases, it would be useful to make sure that the manual space reclaim procedure does not have to be performed but that it happens automatically, thus optimizing the use of space."
"It would be helpful to be able to have a custom footprint so that only the required features are installed."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"Using an independent bootable media to restore full physical machines would enable physical machines that may be serving as Nakivo Director or Transport machines to be reliably restored to service without undue delay, ensuring that an enterprise's local environment remains intact."
"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". 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". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. VMware SRM report.
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