We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Veeam is praised for its simplicity, user-friendliness, and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. However, there are areas that need improvement such as cost, security, AIX backup, usability, and compatibility. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its integration capabilities, and reliability. It needs improvements in areas such as security vulnerabilities, interface navigation, performance with HA pair model, and monitoring and auto-alerting capabilities. The pricing for both products has received mixed reviews, with Veeam Backup & Replication being considered expensive and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP also being rated as expensive but acceptable by some users.
"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are good. Snapshot copies are pretty much the write-in time data backups. Obviously, critical data is snapshotted a lot more frequently, and even clients and end users find it easier to restore whatever they need if it's file-based, statical, etc."
"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."
"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."
"ONTAP's snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are pretty useful in recovering your data from a time in a snapshot. That's pretty useful for when you have an event where a disaster struck and then you need to recover all your data. It's pretty helpful and pretty fast in those terms."
"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all."
"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new."
"One of the best things about Veeam is that they have consistently improved on themselves since they started. Personally, I've been using Veeam since around 2013/2014 when it was only supporting certain hypervisors such as HyperV, and since then it has become truly mature enterprise-level software with a lot of versatility."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup & Replication is the ease of use."
"The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well."
"Replication is the most valuable feature."
"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."
"The cost needs improvement."
"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."
"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."
"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."
"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."
"I have a problem with the VM. When we started doing a backup, it takes a snapshot for our virtual machines, but when we try it two or three times, in some cases, our virtual machines go to a consolidated state. I don't know why this problem happens. But I still think Veeam is a top-ranking solution."
"A backup and replication solution should be able to back up a system and do recovery very fast. Even though Veeam Backup & Replication is able to meet most of our needs, it would be better if they can make it faster for backup and restore."
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like."
"I have used NetBackup. For heavy workloads or if I need consistent backup and restore, I prefer NetBackup over Veeam Backup Replication."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 329 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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