We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to create a replica of all virtual machines is a great feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product."
"The backups, especially of the incremental type, are really quick (ranging from five to 10 to 45 to 50 minutes depending on the size of the VM)."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"All in all, NAKIVO helped us save a lot of time."
"The main advantage from our perspective is the ability to plug this solution into an existing infrastructure on a cheap device and point the backup at the server targets and configure the backup options in a simple menu; linking to a cheap cloud resource for a simple solution for off-site storage."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The solution is scalable."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"From an administrator usage perspective, the interface is very intuitive, but maybe the wizard for creating and modifying backup jobs could look a little fancier."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"Log and report creation can be improved."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. VMware SRM report.
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