We performed a comparison between Commvault and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Veeam Backup Replication seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers found Commvault difficult to deploy and rather expensive to purchase. Veeam did better in these categories.
"The most valuable feature of Commvault HyperScale X is the automatic nature of its operation. We don't need to worry about sets of documents. It worked automatically, we don't need to think about it. When you set the solution up in a good way, you don't need to worry."
"In terms of the speed of backup, it operates seamlessly, so I'd rate it as excellent... with my daily use and workload, quite honestly I don't even notice when it backs up."
"Commvault is very simple to use and it is automated."
"Commvault software is a single platform where you can enable whatever you want to use, like endpoint protection. You can enable those licenses on a single platform screen. This is where I see the value ad. This is a single management tool."
"When an interruption takes place due to an incident, the signaling and notification are very extensive."
"The most important feature is that everything can be controlled using a single console."
"Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet.""
"We switched to Commvault because we were looking to centralize management. This reduced IT administrator time as well as providing stability and reliability for data backups in a single console."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."
"This is very user-friendly."
"It's got a very good user-friendly interface. It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup & Replication is the ease of use."
"The product could be more convenient in terms of working with different solutions and having more integration between the different products in the market."
"The stability of the tool could be improved."
"This product is overly complex to operate and run."
"They could work on the implementation of the features."
"We are using a production environment with customer-sensitive data on it. As per our central bank rules and regulations, we can't keep our customer's sensitive data in the cloud."
"The back of virtual machines needs improvement. I know they're working on it. They're always doing new things but I think they still have a little bit more to do."
"When we send a query to Commvault, they take a long time to answer our questions."
"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."
"The initial setup of Veeam Backup Replication is straightforward. The process took approximately two days. The setup could be streamlined to take less time."
"There is some complexity we have experienced when using the solution that should be simplified."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"Scalability, as well as licensing costs, need to be improved."
"I only ever found one error. It was when we were doing a file copy job. After using it for ten minutes, it would slow down and cause a bottleneck error."
"The physical server backups and direct storage connectivity need improvement."
"Veeam is good up until 300 VMs."
"The solution needs more detailed reporting."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 104 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, Cohesity DataProtect and Zerto, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Commvault Cloud vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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