NAKIVO - Surprisingly Awesome
June 28, 2019

NAKIVO - Surprisingly Awesome

Kevin King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO is used to backup our VMware systems, and we have it installed at a number of customer sites doing the same thing. Compared to our old system, NAKIVO just works. It's easy to setup, it's easy to use, and it's ridiculously reliable.
  • Reliable
  • Easy to configure
  • Affordable
  • The different product versions are oddly named for what they provide.
  • Some enterprise features are not yet supported on the virtual appliance running under VMware.
  • We have high confidence in our backups now.
  • NAKIVO is a "set it and forget it" kind of solution. I don't have to be checking it daily to make sure it works. We still monitor it, but it's much more passive now.
NAKIVO is far more reliable than Unitrends, and the support is far better. Veeam is super difficult to configure properly and while it does like everything, it doesn't do anything very well. Nakivo also seems to transfer data faster than both of these.
We only use it for VMware, but there are versions for Hyper-V and AWS as well. We've used Unitrends, Veeam, and NAKIVO, and NAKIVO hits the mark far better than the others in terms of reliability and ease of use.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
Not Rated
Recovery verification
8
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
Not Rated