We performed a comparison between INFINIDAT InfiniGuard and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
Earn 20 points
INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 60th in Backup and Recovery while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect and Quest NetVault, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup.
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