We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Veeam Backup & Replication 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."What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"Recovery of backup data is the most valuable feature."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"There are many valuable features, for example how Copy Job is controlling the band with accelerators. The Enterprise Manager is a valuable feature. There are many very useful features. We can push in the market, because we have an advantage over the other solutions."
"One of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is its exceptional restore capability, enabling users to recover their data seamlessly. Another valuable functionality is the automated verification of backup restorations, made possible through the Sure Backup feature. The software boasts numerous other noteworthy features that offer immense value, including the NAS backup feature."
"I have been in contact with technical support and they are very good."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is definitely very useful and simple to learn, and the restoring processes are very straightforward, making it a very solid product."
"It's scalable."
"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
"Could offer a better conclusion of the backups."
"I would like to see more broad support for other applications such as databases, or other operating systems."
"Its licensing needs to be improved. Its licensing has become complex since last December. They have changed the way the product is licensed, and there is a lot of confusion. Sometimes, when a new version comes, it seems that it has not been tested enough because I usually find some bugs in it. It could also have more integration with other virtualization products, such as desktop virtualization products and open-source virtualization products."
"The replication process is very slow. It takes too long to replicate a virtual machine."
"The backup and integration could be improved."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 329 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Azure Site Recovery vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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