Azure Site Recovery vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

Microsoft and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

Read 23 Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] reviews

100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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Charles Daou

Senior system Engineer at Soft Flow

Great backup that's user-friendly and very reliable

The initial setup is very straightforward. It is easy. There are no great difficulties when setting up the solution. Even the configuration is simple. The deployment itself takes only a couple of days. It only takes one person to install it. You do not need a big team. We had an engineer manage it. The product does not require any maintenance.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."

"The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

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"In my opinion, the console or dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."

"the interface is the most valuable feature and for the client it's security."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very elastic. It's adaptable because it's very flexible and modular."

"The solution is already far more advanced than our customers require. It offers advanced scripting and automation pre-testing to support the custom library and custom tasks."

"Replication without network changes."

"The most valuable features of Veeam Cloud Connect are its ease of use and the portal is very useful."

"I like the fact that it gives you the possibility to set the data out of the customer on-premises site and to have an off-site copy in your Cloud Data Center."

"Cloud Connect's best features are its simplicity, flexibility, and constantly-expanding options."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"It could include more of a backup and recovery."

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"We were interested in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in VMware. VMware right now is one of the biggest solutions in the world, in terms of the IT environment. But for Cloud Connect it's not. I think they need the cloud version to reach more customers, to enable the cloud version to be used by more people."

"Doesn't back-up from KVM."

"Basically, a huge amount of storage capacity can be required in certain cases."

"We need the solution to offer IT storage."

"The solution needs to be more scalable. There should be no reason to set up Veeam Cloud Connect and have 10 servers in order to have a cloud backup. The initial setup could be easier."

"We encountered some issues with stability at the beginning."

"The biggest thing that Cloud Connect needs is native deduplication."

"I would like to see more advanced training courses made available to cover complicated use cases."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"They have a license to pay."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The licensing is MSP-based. It is connected to the portal, and you can deploy it to your end users as well."

"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."

"We are looking into how we can extend the license of this product."

"The price of the solution is reasonable because of our good standing with the vendor."

"It's not the cheapest solution on the market but it's reliable, so we find it cost-effective."

"The price of the solution could be cheaper. There are monthly or yearly subscription options available. The annual subscription tends to be cheaper."

"I think that this is one of the most cost-effective solutions."

"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise enables businesses to act as a disaster recover (DR) service provider to deliver off-site backup and replication services to internal customers. This eliminates complexity by removing the need to maintain a VPN connection and it improves security by encapsulating all backup and management traffic into a single port.

Veeam Software

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Worldwide Holdings, ContinuitySA, MPY, Linxdatacenter

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