Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup Reviews

• Ease of setup 
• Ease of recovery of VMs

The recovery speed could be quicker, especially when you only need a file or two.

I've been using it for one year.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Excellent.

We previously used Symantec. We switched because of the cost as our customers were SMBs, not enterprises. They still need good recovery capabilities and they need it to be reasonably priced. Altaro fits the bill.

It's very straightforward to setup, as it is wizard-driven and very simple. It took less than 10 minutes to have it setup and running first backup.

The first recovery typically pays for the investment.

It is a great lesson in keeping it simple. It just works and you get save much more of your hair.

Generally, the entire program is brilliant, and there isn't any one feature that I can pick out. However, I'd always recommend using the Altaro offsite backup server as this works brilliantly.

Backups are much easier to manage, using a drag and drop interface for a lot of the features.

The only issue at the moment is a lack of throttling. Our backups tend to take most of the day, and whilst it handles VSS backups very well, you do notice a performance hit because it's using all reads on the disk or transferring at maximum bandwidth.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

The wide range of changes that you can make are very good. However, timings of the backups take quite a while however this is to be resolved with the CBT feature that they're rolling out in the coming months. It would however be nice to throttle bandwidth/ disk activity during set periods of times. They offer a free license for two VMs or less. A lot of features are disabled, but give it a go and like it, purchase it.

Simplicity and reliability. I had some difficulties activating the product but after the activation phase all went smooth.

I could create VM backups from live machines without any issues. The restore process also was very quick.

I have tested version 5 only. However I would like to see the addition of a VM converter from another solution (VMware) and a P2V capability.

I used it for two to three months.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

Excellent customer support. I only needed assistance during the activation process.

I have only used the traditional Windows Server Backup tool and the Hyper-V export procedure.

The initial setup was straightforward.

It was implemented through an in-house team.

• Automated live Hyper-V backups of full VMs.
• Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included.
• Retention policies and reporting included.
• Granular file-level restore and Exchange restore.
• Automated validation of backed up VMs.
• Central management possible.

Accelerated our physical to virtual conversion. It gave us the reliability the business demanded, without investing in expensive software and upgrading the network/storage back end. Allowed application isolation that drastically improved RTOs and RPOs. And enabled our IT staff to easily manage all our virtual backups and restoration with little to no training.

Moving VMs between non-clustered hosts which both have Altaro backup running will not update their inventories automatically, at least in the latest version I used.

Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on.

Four years.

None.

In earlier versions (v3/4) the UI made it somewhat difficult to get the right overview at times.

Fantastic support crew, always ready to give sound advice on setups. They actually listen to complaints/feature requests, and implements them. Great blogs as well with lots of technical information.

At that time, automated backups for Hyper-V were not in great supply. Veeam was too bloated and required a lot of work to test and deploy.

Easy to deploy, very smooth setup, no overhead caused by common integration hurdles. Great choices of backup destinations. Up and running in 10 to 15 minutes.

No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great.

As noted above, at that time, automated backups for Hyper-V were not in great supply. Veeam was too bloated and required a lot of work to test and deploy.

Try it! You will not be disappointed.

The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent.

The scalability of the solution is limited. 

It's scalable but only scalable to a certain level. If it's for a high-end enterprise, you will have trouble.  If you have seven servers or more and then you'll probably struggle a bit. Right now, we have 500-600 users.

The technical support for this solution is excellent. I'd give it a rating of nine out of ten.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

We use both the cloud and on-premises deployment models. We're a reseller of the solution.

I'd definitely recommend the product. I'd rate it nine out of ten.