vCenter Site Recovery Manager Advantage over Veeam Backup & Replication

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Top Reasons to Deploy VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.5

Veeam Software 5 Reasons Why SRM 5.5 Beats Veeam Backup & Replication v7
Veeam’s Backup & Replication product is sold by resellers to mostly small VMware customers SRM Orchestrates Disaster Recovery | Veeam Just Replicates
with less than 100 VMs. Veeam also promotes its product to Microsoft Hyper-V users.
SITE RECOVERY MANAGER VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION
Veeam Weaknesses Fast automated failover Manual sequential failover
• Backup scheduler lacks enterprise-level flexibility and automation • Single button recovery • Must recover VMs individually
• Lack of orchestration in replication hampers speed and effectiveness of Disaster Recovery • Pre-configured recovery plans and • Time consuming process
• Enterprises find Veeam technical support insufficient inventory mappings ensure quick
recovery

Why Choose VMware’s SRM?

RTO
• Designed specifically to deliver reliable disaster recovery solutions for vSphere environments
• True automated BC/DR solution, SRM minimizes risks, time, and costs associated with DR Site-level automated testing VM-level manual testing
• Automated processes allow organizations to scale BC/DR solutions with growth of virtualized • Test real DR scenarios not just • Test individual VMs/app groups
environments individual VMs • Difficult to replicate actual disaster
• Dedicated technical support meets the needs of both large and small organizations to ensure • Test multiple recovery plans scenarios
that every issue is resolved to satisfaction • Minimize DR errors • Virtual Labs for Replicas (v7)
provides isolated network for testing
but doing this at VM level is
Responses to Veeam Claims DR impractical and ineffective
RELIABILITY
Veeam Claim VMware Response Centralized management Laborious management
Supports both Hyper-V • SRM is designed specifically to protect VMware-infrastructure and • Use same recovery plan for failover, • With Veeam’s “Centralized
and VMware hypervisors provides best possible integration with vSphere and VMware storage failback, planned migration and testing Management” user still has to create
partners • Site-level centralized inventory separate jobs for tasks such as
• No multi-platform compromises are made in SRM mapping failover, failback, or testing of the
same VM
Near-continuous • SRM supports synchronous and continuous RPOs through integration • Separate inventory mapping for every
replication offers better with leading array-based replication solutions
EASE OF job
RPO • Veeam lacks array-based replication needed for Tier-1 applications ADMINSITRATION
Software and storage based No storage-based replication
2-in-1 backup and • VMware provides 2-in-1 backup & replication with VDP and vSphere replication
replication Replication included at no additional charge with vSphere 5.1 • Lack of storage based replication
Essentials Plus and higher – why should a customer pay for Veeam? • Caters to both SMBs and large limits ability to meet stringent RPO’s
organizations for Tier-1applications leaving critical
Back up from storage • Veeam’s support is currently limited only to HP 3PAR and P4000 • vSphere Replication provides storage- systems vulnerable
snapshots (v7) • Feature available only in more expensive Enterprise plus edition independent, reliable and cost
effective protection
Veeam backup-to-tape • Tape backups bring higher operational costs and complexity. SRM is • Storage-based replication to meet COMPLETENESS
(v7) enabling customer preferences for more efficient backup-to-disk. lowest RPOs OF SOLUTION

1 Agile DR strategy and more A replication product

Veeam Pricing & Maintenance
2 • Allows multiple recovery plans for • VM level recovery makes it difficult to
Enterprise Plus Enterprise Standard Free different disaster scenarios recover a large datacenter let alone
Pricing/CPU Socket $1,999 $1,250 $750 Backup Only/ No • Enables disaster recovery as well as testing and planning different DR
Maintenance (approx.) $360 $225 $135 Replication planned migrations scenarios
1 - North American pricing for Veeam BR v7, Annual maintenance fees approx.18% of MSRP • What good is a replication product if it
2 - SRMv5 comes with a 60-day trial license takes ages and effort to recover?
FLEXIBILITY
SRM Price Advantage
• SRM provides disaster recovery orchestration while Veeam just replicates
• SRM standard (offers same features as Enterprise but limited to 75 VMs) at $195/VM costs
6% lower than Veeam’s Enterprise edition (assuming 6 VMs/processor for comparison)
• SRM is also included at no extra cost in vCloud Suite Enterprise

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