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."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 virtual appliance for VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and we have no need for additional Windows licenses."
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"It is flexible."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"We spend less time to get data recovered."
"The speed of the backups and replications is fantastic and, for the most part, the simplicity of use has been wonderful."
"Most valuable for DimenXional Cloud is the API provided by Nakivo which allows us to implement the software in all types of solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"Space is always an issue."
"We are satisfied with Nakivo, but if anything could be improved, I think it would be more real-time as opposed to email support availability."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The interface can be a little clunky at times."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
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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