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."The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"The fact that it works with Synology is a big valuable point. Also, that we can check the functionality of a backup so easily. Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product. We can save so much time with Nakivo and are very happy that we found it and loved to use it for our solutions."
"It was also very easy to configure backups to be sent offsite to a separate repository for disaster recovery needs."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised."
"The interface is basic and very easy to use which is what we are looking for."
"Nakivo is an easy-to-use, robust and cost-effective backup solution. I highly recommend it."
"Backups are working smoothly with Nakivo Backup."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression."
"We would like to back up File Shares to Amazon S3/Wasabi."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"I would like to have the option of creating a subfolder per job in the backup repository because we had an issue where some files were corrupted and we lost the backup of the majority of the VMs."
"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things."
"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."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
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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