We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"It is a scalable product."
"The solution is stable."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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