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.
"The technical support is good."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"I like that the solution is very simple to install."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"In Veeam backup, the most valuable feature for me is the recovery. It allows me to recover almost immediately while I continue fixing the problem of the affected machine."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is consistent."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"It's a great product, but only if you have everything virtualized."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"The ability to do more backups should be addressed."
"They fixed everything that I was hoping for. It is pretty good. There were a few things in 9.x that I was wishing for, and they came true in version 10. We were looking for retention without having to make a copy job. We're getting ready to migrate m365 to the cloud. I haven't dived into it to make sure, but I wish the m365 backup would integrate into the current console so that we don't have to use two different consoles."
"The price can be better."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 329 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". 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". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our VMware SRM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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