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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NAKIVO Backup & Replication

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANAKIVO Backup & Replication now also supports Proxmox VE, alongside VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2. It offers replication, failover, cloud backup, backup copy, size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery.

    $2.50

    per month per workload

    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
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Perpetual)
    Starting at $329 per CPU socket
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU sockets
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise
    Starting $76 per server and $25 per workstation
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
    Enterprise Plus
    Contact vendor
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Subscription)
    Starting at $3.5 per workload/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
    Pro Essentials/Pro (Perpetual)
    Starting at $239 per CPU socket
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU Socket
    Pro Essentials/Pro (Subscription)
    Starting at $2.5 per workload/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
    Pro Essentials/Pro
    Starting at $58 per server and $19 per workstation
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
    NAKIVO Backup for Microsoft 365
    Starting at $0.80 per user/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Microsoft 365 User/Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.—
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    Community Pulse
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Considered Both Products
    Nakivo Inc.
    Chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Veeam needs a Physical Windows machine or VM running Windows, that also have to connect to a Backup Repository, was time-consuming to set-up and configure, I also had problems VM's locked-up during the backup process.
    Incentivized
    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    130 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    130 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    129 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    119 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    127 Answers
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    Features
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    8.4
    154 Ratings
    2% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery7.4129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.4132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.4138 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection7.3117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.2140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification7.8144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.0111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.9139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots7.7129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.2104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.2117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.6114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.8112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.1103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of NAKIVO Backup & Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    8.5
    46 Ratings
    0% below category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection8.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection8.332 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities8.339 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.739 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (160 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (48 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.2
    (32 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication is well suited for a variety of scenarios. Firstly, it is ideal for businesses with virtualized environments, such as VMware or Hyper-V, as it offers seamless backup and recovery solutions tailored to these platforms. Secondly, organizations with a mix of virtual, physical, and cloud environments can benefit from NAKIVO's ability to provide unified data protection across these platforms. Additionally, businesses requiring fast and reliable disaster recovery capabilities will find NAKIVO Backup & Replication valuable, thanks to its site recovery and orchestration features.However, there are scenarios where NAKIVO may be less appropriate. For organizations with exclusively physical infrastructure and no virtualized environments, the full range of NAKIVO's features may not be utilized to its fullest potential. Similarly, companies with limited data storage requirements may not fully benefit from NAKIVO's deduplication and compression capabilities.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Nakivo Inc.
    • Can be installed natively on nas appliances leveraging the use of underutilized appliances. No need to install the software on Windows or Linux Servers.
    • Backup natively Vmware Virtual Machines and File Shares (you need to buy the right license modules).
    • Destination storage for backups (or of the backup copies) can be Microsoft shares, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze and remotely to other sites using their transporter vm.
    • To not overload the system with overlapping jobs, they can be chained one after the other.
    • Rapid add/remove/reorder priority of vm to backup and their backup archive. Jobs can be easily changed or chained.
    • Quick support service
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Nakivo Inc.
    • Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
    Incentivized
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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
    Nakivo Inc.
    It is a product that contains most of the features of its big competitors but at an affordable price for small businesses. In addition, the support is very good even if they only have support in English. Another important factor is its compatibility with NAS devices, which greatly simplifies deployment. The implementation is simple and in a matter of minutes you can define the first copy Jobs
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    VMware by Broadcom
    - easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Nakivo Inc.
    The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
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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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    Implementation Rating
    Nakivo Inc.
    It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication stands out as a more cost-effective and robust solution compared to Veeam ONE. With competitive pricing and a comprehensive feature set including incremental backups, global deduplication, LAN-free data transfer, and built-in WAN acceleration, NAKIVO offers efficient data protection and optimized storage usage. Its user-friendly interface and streamlined setup process make it appealing for organizations with limited IT resources. Additionally, NAKIVO's support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV further enhances its versatility. When evaluating data protection solutions, NAKIVO's affordability, robustness, and ease of use make it an attractive choice for businesses seeking a comprehensive and cost-effective backup solution.
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Nakivo Inc.
    The pricing for VM backups is good value for money as it does not limit how many VM's per socket. This works well for smaller sites with simple backup requirements. Physical machine backup pricing would more attractive with a sliding scale based on the number of physical machines.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Professional Services
    Nakivo Inc.
    I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
    Incentivized
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Nakivo Inc.
    • One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
    • An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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