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    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A

    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
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    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
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    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
    Considered Both Products
    Commvault
    Chose Commvault Cloud
    CommVault was selected years ago and had to try to fend off competitors like Veeam, Zerto, and recently Rubrik. CommVault was very stable and a proven solution both in the marketplace as a whole and at our company. This value made it hard for new players to compete for such a …
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    Chose Commvault Cloud
    [Selected CommVault based on] Features and options, licensing, easy to learn and adopt.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Chose VMware SRM
    [We selected VM Site Recovery Manager based on] VMware Snapshots, functionality and integration.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Commvault Cloud and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    15% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
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    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.064 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.068 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection7.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations5.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification7.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud7.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.575 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots7.571 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support7.067 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options8.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption7.564 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Commvault CloudVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
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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
    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
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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
    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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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
    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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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
    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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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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    Reliability and Availability
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Performance
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE 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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    In-Person Training
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Online Training
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Implementation Rating
    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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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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    Scalability
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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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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