We compared Commvault Complete Data Protection and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Commvault has a more intricate setup process, but once implemented, it is commended for its simplicity and user-friendly interface. It provides a wide range of recovery options and integrates well with various storage platforms. Conversely, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has a straightforward setup and is highly regarded for its integration capabilities with both on-premises and cloud environments. It offers features like cloud backup and data replication between different cloud providers. However, it receives mixed feedback regarding customer support and is considered costly by certain users.
"It is easy to use and stable. It delivers what has been promised. When it says it can do something, it can actually do it, as opposed to some of its competitors."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed."
"The ability to manage everything from a single pane of glass is another major advantage."
"The email archiving feature is very smooth and better than others."
"The 1-Touch recovery feature is helpful for all customers."
"Commvault is both very stable and scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Commvault provides the status of a backup or restore operation."
"Another feature which gets a lot of attention in our environment is the File Services Solutions in the cloud, because it's a completely, fully-managed service. We don't have to take care of any updates, upgrades, or configurations."
"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."
"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."
"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."
"The good thing about NetApp is the features that are available on the cloud are also available on-premises."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."
"It offers ease of use and a comprehensive suite of applications, including features like SnapMirror, SnapVault, and unified snapshot management, all bundled into a single product."
"They can improve the VMware recovery and VMware backup. There is an improvement area on the VMware infrastructure. They can make available what they call a VSA proxy. They can have an appliance-type setup to deploy VSA backups and help recover quicker. They can have an appliance ready. Instead of having to have a server dedicated to that and installing software on a server, they can just provide an actual appliance for that."
"The initial setup was complicated."
"The product does not provide an option to save a copy of data on-premises."
"The main area for improvement is that we sometimes experience negative effects from their updates. If they had a larger test area for their updates, that would help."
"The navigation of it needs improvement in terms of the UX. The product itself, it works as expected. It's all user experience and user interface improvements that could be made and it could be made a little more consumer-friendly."
"We've run into some issues when attempting to restore very large numbers of files. Of course, that's more of a design issue."
"The product is expensive."
"They should move the CommServe outside of Windows machines and the database should be distributed among servers. It's still a single point of failure."
"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."
"Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration."
"NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP needs to have customizable pricing options such as 10 TB increments. They seem to have only two options: 10 TB or 250 TB."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."
"The product is more restricted with underlying cloud."
"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."
"The solution is not stable when using single nodes. This is a problem. NetApp should work on this solution to make it more stable with HA nodes and resolve this issue."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 2nd in Cloud Backup with 104 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Zerto, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Commvault Cloud vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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