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.
"I like all the backup features in Veeam."
"There are many valuable features, for example how Copy Job is controlling the band with accelerators. The Enterprise Manager is a valuable feature. There are many very useful features. We can push in the market, because we have an advantage over the other solutions."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"This is very user-friendly."
"My customers find the backup and recovery ease of use is the most beneficial feature."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a great alternative to what is out there. Some of the backups just allow an agent backup to the cloud. You can back up a thousand different ways, but this is a great way to keep a customer and a company in compliance in that they've got their data secure onsite and offsite. The data being transferred to the NAS at the customer's location and also the data being sent to the cloud is encrypted in transit and it's also encrypted at rest so that nobody is going to be able to hack into that. No one will have the keys to do that."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The replicating from Veeam Backup Replication to Azure cloud could be improved."
"They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"The solution needs more detailed reporting."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It could be simpler to use."
"Pricing can be improved."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 164 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 8th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 18 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 "Good replication and integration capabilities with a straightforward setup". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Azure Backup, Rubrik, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Nakivo and Dell Avamar, 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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