We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Before using Nakivo Backup & Replication, all our data backup processes took a long time and did not optimize the disk space reserved for backup. With the introduction of Nakivo Backup & Replication, saving times have been reduced by almost half (thanks to the use of several simultaneous transporters) and the space occupied has also had a very important reduction."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"The main advantage from our perspective is the ability to plug this solution into an existing infrastructure on a cheap device and point the backup at the server targets and configure the backup options in a simple menu; linking to a cheap cloud resource for a simple solution for off-site storage."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"For my purpose, I find VM Backup to be the most useful, as it gives me the ability to create image-based, incremental backups of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV VMs."
"The speed of the backups and replications is fantastic and, for the most part, the simplicity of use has been wonderful."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"They need to add a failover feature to the Essential Pro license in case the environment is a simple virtual environment and the client does not need to upgrade."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"In the future, the solution should provide a more granular backup."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"We would like to back up File Shares to Amazon S3/Wasabi."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Rubrik, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. VMware SRM report.
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