We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect, and Veeam Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It never fails. Sometimes we miss a backup, but there's always a reason for it, and it's not the fault of Commvault. In the last three years, we've never had to open a ticket with Commvault."
"The most valuable features of Commvault HyperScale X are all the general functions and the performance."
"It's very user-friendly. It supports a wide range of workloads. It's quite easy to use, it's very powerful and it's scalable."
"We have multiple workloads, including SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA, especially Sybase, as well as file systems, VMs, and Exchange mailboxes. Commvault provides very good support for them."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to backup over the dedicated Fiber Channel directly from SAN."
"Global deduplication and the indexing of the data object are the most valuable features. It saves costs on the product side by doing compression and deduplication. It will help you and make your life easy to reach the data that you need within the minimum downtime when it's required."
"I like the product because of its simplicity and the fact that it provides one single interface for managing everything, including storage, data, and policies."
"In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"I like how Veeam intuitively integrates with Zerto."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The solution just works consistently. I never have issues with it."
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are ease of use, dashboards, and reporting."
"The initial setup was complex."
"There are two ways to use it and I prefer the web-based one over the app. I wish they were a little bit more matched in what they offer because the features aren't as available in the web-based interface as they are in the app."
"They should move the CommServe outside of Windows machines and the database should be distributed among servers. It's still a single point of failure."
"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side. We are using this solution to back up whatever is still on-prem. We are not using it to back up what is on the public cloud because we have a native backup solution for that, which is provided by the vendor. As our footprint gets bigger, we will continue to evaluate this, but the last time that we did a cost analysis, the cost was not comparable to the solution that public clouds are offering."
"In an upcoming release, the reports could be better."
"Persistent binding is a feature that I would like to see in the next release of Commvault."
"Commvault could benefit from increased automation to streamline processes and enhance predictability."
"Our main pain point is that some of our hardware is old. For example, the SSD disks for our application database are slow. It's hard to avoid a slowdown in our environment because the size of our backups is growing every year. If you're growing and don't upgrade the environment, you will see slower backups and restores. You must enhance the environment if you are growing."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"I have found that the reporting could improve in its structure."
"They can improve the features and Veeam Enterprise Manager. The interface and features are kind of limited. It would be good if they can provide more features and a better interface. For example, if I want to provide certain users with the privilege to back up and restore and do day-to-day tasks, I cannot do it in the current version. It is like you either give everything to everyone or no user can have access to anything. In version 9, a lot of features were missing, and it wasn't clear. Version 10 is easier from the communication perspective, and the disk backup option is very clear."
"I would like to see the licensing model improved. They have recently changed the model and have made it more complicated."
"The physical server backups and direct storage connectivity need improvement."
"Lacks online training."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"Veeam Backup is not enhanced. There aren't any enhancements yet and they are still using traditional methods for snapshots and to perform the backup, like many other vendors. Another improvement would be simplifying and integrating their software."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
