We performed a comparison between NetApp SnapCenter and Veritas NetBackup 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 all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The backup and restore functions are very valuable aspects of the product."
"The solution is stable."
"The documentation is good."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"If you are running on a legacy tape environment NetBackup is best."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Veritas NetBackup is very user-friendly and has some good quick recovery features."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"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."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"The flip side about NetBackup is that it is not policy-based."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"Some of the hardware is out of support."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"The database integration could be better."
"This product would be improved with the inclusion of a Sandbox feature like Veeam Sandbox."
"Main area that could be improved is the pricing, to make it more competitive"
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NetApp SnapCenter vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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