NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

The compared NetApp and VMware solutions aren't in the same category. NetApp is ranked #1 in CSDS , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 28.0% mindshare in the category. VMware is ranked #4 in DRS , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 8.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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88% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (2nd), Cloud Backup (14th), Public Cloud Storage Services (6th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

VMware Live Recovery

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (4th)

Mindshare comparison

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and VMware Live Recovery aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is designed for Cloud Software Defined Storage and holds a mindshare of 28.0%, down 28.9% compared to last year.
VMware Live Recovery, on the other hand, focuses on Disaster Recovery (DR) Software, holds 8.1% mindshare, down 11.4% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Pramod-Talekar

Sr Service Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution

The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.

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Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga

IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

The capability and the functionality of the features are very helpful for us

We use VMware Live Recovery for creating new hosts and new servers. We synchronize all of our software from our data center to our co-location in real time, so when a disaster happens, we switch to the co-location The functionality of the features is helpful for us. We find the resource…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise."

"The FlexClones make all the management easier for us."

"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."

"It's very easy to set up, and within 40 minutes, you can apply storage notes in Azure."

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

"The most valuable features are that it's reliable, simple, and performs well."

"SnapMirror helps mirror metadata and data volumes between endpoints in a data fabric."

"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."

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"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."

"Testing failover capabilities."

"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."

"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."

"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."

"The community provides good knowledge, so I can get answers if I have special inquiries."

"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."

"The replication is a key feature."

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Cons

"They definitely need to stay more on top of security vulnerabilities. Our security team is constantly finding Java vulnerabilities and SQL vulnerabilities. Our security team always wants the latest security update, and it takes a while for NetApp to stay up to speed with that. That would be my biggest complaint."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to see the Azure NetApp Files have the capability of doing SnapMirrors. Azure NetApp Files is, as we know, is an AFF system and it's not used in any of the Microsoft resources. It's basically NetApp hardware, so the best performance you can achieve, but the only reason we can't use that right now is because of the region that it's available in. The second was the SnapMirror capability that we didn't have that we heavily rely on right now."

"NetApp CVO needs to have more exposure and mature further before it will have greater acceptance."

"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."

"The key feature, that we'd like to see in that is the ability to sync between regions within the AWS and Azure regions. We could use the cloud sync service, but we'd really like that native functionality within the cloud volume service."

"I would like to see more aggressive management of the aggregate space. On the Cloud Volumes ONTAP that we use for offsite backup copies, most of the data sits in S3. There are also the EBS volumes on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP itself. Sometimes what happens is that the aggregate size just stays the same. If it allocates 8 terabytes initially, it just stays at 8 terabytes for a long time, even though we're only using 20 percent of that 8 terabytes. NetApp could undersize that more aggressively."

"The data tiering needs improvement. E.g., moving hard data to faster disks."

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"It would be ideal if they added advanced analytics or AI to the solution."

"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."

"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."

"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."

"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."

"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."

"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."

"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."

"In addition to the standard licensing fees, there are fees for Azure, the VMs themselves and for data transfer."

"The pricing of this solution is definitely higher than what the typical Azure Files and AWS solutions charge, but given the features and the stability NetApp has provided, we are okay with it. We are not complaining about the pricing."

"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."

"Our licensing costs are folded into the hardware purchases and I have never differentiated between the two."

"The standard pricing is online. Pricing depends. If you're using the PayGo model, then it's just the normal costs on the Microsoft page. If you're using Bring Your Own License, which is what we're doing, then you get with your sales contact at NetApp and start figuring out what price is the best, in the end, for your company."

"Once we deploy the pay as you go model, we cannot convert this product as a BYOL model. This is a concern that we have."

"I know the licensing is a bit on the high-end. That's when we had to downsize our MetroCluster disks and just migrate to disks that were half used. We migrated into those just to reduce maintenance costs."

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"There is an annual license to use this solution."

"VMware sells in bundles of 50 VMs, so if we want to expand, we have to buy the whole bundle."

"I would say VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is very expensive in comparison with other available virtualization solutions."

"VMware SRM is expensive when compared to Veeam and makes Veeam look cheaper. For support, some additional payments need to be made over the licensing costs of the solution."

"The licensing costs are increasing."

"Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs."

"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."

"VMware SRM is quite expensive."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

36%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp's support could improve.

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What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

We use a three-year license, and the cost for VMware Live Recovery can be high. Previously, when acquiring a license for Ethiopian drug supply chains, the price was significantly high, especially a...

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

The licensing area needs improvement as the cost per virtual machine is high. If they offered discounts or minimized their prices, it would be more beneficial.

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Comparisons

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Compared 11% of the time

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 9% of the time

Portworx Enterprise vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 24% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

Azure Site Recovery vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 7% of the time

Veritas Resiliency Platform vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 1% of the time

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM

Overview

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides a comprehensive solution to safeguard critical data and applications from cyberattacks and other disasters.

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Sample Customers

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard

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