We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and NetApp SnapCenter 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 solution helped us use R2 RBO to back up frequently."
"It is a stable solution...The product is worth the money you pay for it."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"It is a stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"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."
"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."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"Azure Backup must include features similar to enterprise solutions."
"The solution is quite technical. I wouldn't describe it as user friendly. It could be simplified a lot to make it more accessible to the average user."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"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."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Azure Backup vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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