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Azure Site Recovery vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)
Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AP
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.
Charles Daou - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."
"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."
"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"I've found flexibility to the most valuable feature. I also like that it's scalable and that the stability is okay."
"A really good feature is backing up the emails of the company."
"The administration and management integrate with multiple solutions, not just with one or two environments, even if they're not VMware products."
"It's a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very elastic. It's adaptable because it's very flexible and modular."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Cloud Connect are its ease of use and the portal is very useful."
"the interface is the most valuable feature and for the client it's security."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."
"I would like to see more security features."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."
"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"The dashboard could be more intuitive."
"The flexibility results in more administrative GUI. The GUI needs improvement."
"Some of the features I'd like added to the solution would be coming up in version 12, so the only area for improvement I saw in Veeam Cloud Connect was the need to have more support for object storage."
"I think Veeam Cloud Connect could be more stable, scalable, and secure. I think better pricing is needed."
"Doesn't back-up from KVM."
"Basically, a huge amount of storage capacity can be required in certain cases."
"The biggest thing that Cloud Connect needs is native deduplication."
"The bandwidth optimization needs to be improved and have better efficiency so that you send fewer amounts of data from one site to the other."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"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."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"They have a license to pay."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"It's not the cheapest solution on the market but it's reliable, so we find it cost-effective."
"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."
"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 is MSP-based. It is connected to the portal, and you can deploy it to your end users as well."
"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."
"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
7%
University
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise3
 

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.
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.
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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Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
Worldwide Holdings, ContinuitySA, MPY, Linxdatacenter
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