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"The solution integrates well with other tools."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"The solution is scalable."
"The API is very good."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"The reporting feature has been particularly beneficial to upper management... When you do manual backups, you do not get the benefit of seeing successes and failures and how often you have to do restores. With SnapCenter, you get all of that."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"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."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is adaptability, where it automatically adapts to the environment that it's being installed on."
"The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."
"The solution can work for companies no matter the size or scope."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are very good."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"It requires much more automation features."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"My major issue is when I upgrade. I have to touch every last client that I have in SnapCenter, and right now I have 60... They said that in another release that will get better, but right now it's not better and I've had to do this three times."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"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)."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"The replication functionality only works for VMware environments. Veeam has a backup agent for AIX operating systems, and we will like to see the replication functionality available for the AIX operating system. Additionally, if the backup functionality for AIX to be included in the Veeam console would be 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."
"Offering mobile apps that give engineers a global view of his backup regime would be a "nice to have" feature."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"The ease of use could be improved, but I don't have a very deep amount of experience in Veeam, so it's difficult to say what could be improved."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"I would like them to move back to host licensing."
