We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison due to its robust performance and user-friendly interface. Veeam Backup & Replication also has a significant ROI.
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"The most valuable features I have found to be Instant Recovery, quick restore and rollback, and asynchronous copy. It is a complete solution for our needs."
"I like all of Veeam's features, but the most important ones are the tape backups and replication. Those are the two options available for us, and it's enough for our needs."
"Veeam is easy to use."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"Veeam Backup is not enhanced. There aren't any enhancements yet and they are still using traditional methods for snapshots and to perform the backup, like many other vendors. Another improvement would be simplifying and integrating their software."
"Integration with other equipment could be improved."
"The initial setup can get complex."
"Unfortunately, the software only runs on Windows."
"It is always nice to get products cheaper."
"Veeam Backup & Replication could improve by making it more user-friendly."
"Backup speed should be increased, and there should be more functionality."
"The Veeam portal should be better integrated with all the parts of the new release. But there's always a workaround to replicate the new solution. I'd like to have better integration with other solutions like SAP."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 105 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 22 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Dynamic and reliable backup solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Stable, useful, and offers great technical support". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our VMware SRM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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