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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Veeam Backup for Azure

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® Backup for Azure delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities. Immutable and Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption Logically…

    $40

    per year Azure VM/year Backup and recovery

    VMware SRM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.N/A
    Pricing
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Editions & Modules
    BYOL edition
    $40
    per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
    Free Edition
    Free
    Backup up to 10 Azure VMs FREE with no limitations on features or number of restores.
    BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
    VUL Portable licensing
    Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Considered Both Products
    Veeam Software
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Veeam Backup for Azure and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    8.3
    37 Ratings
    7% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Management dashboard8.237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options8.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.533 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Veeam Backup for Azure and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    7.7
    21 Ratings
    11% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Malware protection7.721 Ratings00 Ratings
    SaaS Backup
    Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Veeam Backup for Azure and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    8.0
    31 Ratings
    13% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    SaaS Product Integration7.621 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Data Restoration Options8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises8.429 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (39 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Veeam Backup for AzureVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Veeam Software
    For our purposes I can't particularly find any shortcomings of Veeam Backup for Azure. It has been working well for our needs for a few years now. Maybe for someone with a larger cloud footprint or more complex needs, or maybe someone who wants to be able to deploy and configure the appliance using infrastructure as code it may not be as practical.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    It's quite well suited for a medium to large size VMWare virtualization infrastructure where your production infrastructure can be failed over to a disaster recovery site. There are other cheaper options for a smaller budget business. Also, for a non mission critical virtual infrastructure, you can simply use VM backups such as Veeam backups for restoring failed VMs
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    Pros
    Veeam Software
    • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
    • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
    • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Easy configuration and setup.
    • Testing of a particular VM or datastore with several VMs is easy.
    • Auto configuration of IPs makes the process even easier.
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    Cons
    Veeam Software
    • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
    • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
    • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It’s unfortunate, but more and more, the quality of VMware’s products and the technical support teams behind them has degraded significantly. We have opened several support requests within the last few months and ended up resolving a large majority ourselves due to the poor performance of their remote teams.
    • VMware is suffering from the same illness that’s affecting multiple U.S. technology firms, in that their focus has shifted completely away from their customers and moved to pleasing investors. In doing so, clients suffer because they do not get properly tested products and the support teams behind them are very weak and overwhelmed.
    • We worked close to a month trying to get SRM V6.5 to work. We have worked with many previous versions of SRM in the past while using HP EVAs, NetApps and Hitachi arrays, and we can honestly say that we are greatly disappointed with this release and the company.
    • We escalated right up to engineering, but their response times were brutally slow; the technicians were juniors at best.
    • As a technology leader, the last thing you want during a DR is to be dealing with a company that just can't deliver. SRM is not cheap, and you would expect much better products and support from VMware.
    • If you are comparing products, try other companies like Veeam... We ended up using them instead, the setup and execution was easy and seamless, and they answered all our questions quickly and efficiently. They actually do care about their clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Veeam Software
    Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
    - easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
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    Usability
    Veeam Software
    It was so easy that you thought it wasn't working. Once you saw data and was able to recover it or do a restore with the product those beliefs in the system went to the roof. Once you get a product that does everything you want it to do, you will give it it's props.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
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    Support Rating
    Veeam Software
    Great support team!
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Veeam Software
    Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Entertained Veeam, however with SRM's tight integration and "brand" it was an easy decision. The cost for a 25 server license also weighed in the decision for using a VMware product. Plus I am a VMware fan and feel this option to go with SRM will transcend jobs.
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    Return on Investment
    Veeam Software
    • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
    • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
    • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
    • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
    • We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for Azure Screenshots

    Screenshot of Welcome screenScreenshot of Policies setupScreenshot of Cost estimationScreenshot of Restore options