Overall Satisfaction with NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Nakivo Backup & Replication is a great product and works well in my environment to provide backups of the virtual servers on my VMware hosts both locally to a NAS and offsite to Amazon S3. It was very easy to set up and manage and the new bandwidth management is a very nice addition.
- Cost effective VMWare backups. Easy to set up and use and a reliable product.
- Bandwidth management is a very nice new feature.
- None that I have found.
- Very cost effective for smaller virtual environments. Scales nicely to larger setups also.
- Veeam Backup & Replication
Nakivo is more cost effective, so it scales to smaller VM environments better than Veeam. Both are great products though.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Feature Ratings
Using NAKIVO Backup & Replication
1 - IT Administrator
1 - IT Director with over 30 years IT experience. Nakivo is not difficult to install or setup and the operation is all graphical menu based so it is pretty simple to administer the backup jobs. Reports are excellent also.
- We backup all of our VMWare hosted servers onto a local NAS storage device using Nakivo.
- We also backup all of our VMWare hosted servers AWS using Nakivo.
- I love the bandwidth throttling on schedule so that we can control the load based on our working hours.
- The way we have chained our backups together was so easy and works great. Simple and effective way to get all of my backup jobs completed.
- The reports from each backup job are very informative and useful.
- We will continue to backup our servers as we add more in the future.
Evaluating NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Nakivo is very cost effective for the features it has. Smaller organizations will benefit from the lower cost per server compared to how well it works.
None. Nakivo would still be my choice.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
- The AWS storage space setup was more difficult than the Nakivo setup itself. AWS has so many choices it's confusing sometimes. Nakivo is simple.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Support
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
When we initially installed and setup Nakivo with AWS we setup our own transporter and storage space at AWS. We then had issues with those backups failing. After contacting Nakivo support they connected to my workstation and worked with me to install the Nakivo appliance at AWS and properly size it for our needs. It worked and has ever since then.
Using NAKIVO Backup & Replication
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Familiar | None |
- Backup job creation is very easy and quick.
- Monitoring the job progress on the dashboard is simple and understandable.
- I haven't found any overly difficult functions in Nakivo.