Veeam Availability Suite v9 Enterprise Plus

vs. Acronis Backup for VMware

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Veeam recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Business, a business that must operate
24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market for Availability for the Always-On Enterprise. Unlike legacy backup solutions,
which provide recovery time (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) of hours or days, Veeam helps organizations meet recovery time and
point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. This is achieved through a fundamentally new kind of solution
that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite,
which includes Veeam Backup & Replication, leverages virtualization, storage and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to
help organizations save time, mitigate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs.

Capability Description Veeam Acronis

High Speed Recovery

Patented Veeam feature that allows you to quickly restore service to users by starting a VM
Instant VM Recovery directly from a backup file on regular backup storage. 1

Recover files from 19 common file systems used by Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS, Novell, Solaris
Multi-OS file level recovery and Unix. 2

Restore individual VMs, guest files and application items from EMC VNX and VNXe snapshots,
Agentless recovery from HPE 3PAR StoreServ, StoreVirtual and StoreVirtual VSA snapshots as well as from NetApp Data
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storage snapshots ONTAP based storage including FAS, FlexArray (V-Series), Data ONTAP Edge and IBM N series
snapshots.

Agentless recovery for
Microsoft Active Directory
Search and restore for all Active Directory object types, such as users, groups, computer
accounts, contacts, including user and computer password recovery. Includes multi-select
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restore and container restore, Group Policy Objects (GPO) restore, Active Directory-integrated
DNS records restore and Configuration Partition objects restore.

Get instant visibility into Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016 backups for granular recovery
of individual Exchange items (emails, appointments, notes, contacts, etc.), online archive
Agentless recovery for
mailboxes and hard-deleted items. Leverage comprehensive e-Discovery functionality including 5
Microsoft Exchange query result size estimation and detailed export reports. Includes support for restore back into
the original mailbox.

Restore individual SQL databases with ease, without needing an extensive SQL background or
having to search for database and transaction log files. Includes point-in-time export of SQL
Agentless recovery for
database files locally, agentless transaction log backup and replay, transaction-level recovery of 6
Microsoft SQL Server databases and SQL objects (tables, stored procedures, views, etc.) back to the original or new
SQL server.

Get instant visibility into SharePoint backups with advanced search and browse capabilities for
Agentless recovery for quick recovery of individual SharePoint items, entire sites and site collections. Includes
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Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint item restore via save, send and export, entire site and site collection restore, as well as
restore to original location.

Restore individual Oracle databases with ease, without needing an extensive Oracle background
Agentless recovery for or having to search for database and transaction log files. Includes agentless transaction log
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Oracle backup, archived log management and transaction-level recovery of databases back to the
original or new Oracle server.

Delegated, self-service
recoveries for application
Restore entire VMs, guest files and application items with a single click through a web UI. 9
owners and help desk
operators

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Data Loss Avoidance
Create application-consistent image-level VM backups with advanced application-aware
Agentless, image-based
processing (including transaction log truncation) agentlessly. Includes support for creating jobs 10
backup using vSphere tags and datastore clusters to ensure no VMs are left unprotected.

Allows you to set the maximum acceptable I/O latency level for production datastores to ensure
Backup I/O control backup and replication activities do not impact storage availability to production workloads. 11
Includes a global latency setting and provides setting customization on a per-datastore basis.

Create image-based backups and replicas from EMC VNX and VNXe snapshots, HPE 3PAR
Backup from Storage StoreServ, StoreVirtual and StoreVirtual VSA snapshots as well as from NetApp Data ONTAP
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Snapshots based storage including FAS, FlexArray (V-Series), Data ONTAP Edge and IBM N series snapshots
as often as necessary with little to no impact on production.

Veeam Cloud Connect Get your backups off site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup to and restore from the
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Backup cloud through a service provider of your choice.

End-to-end encryption with Secure backup data and network transfers with end-to-end AES 256-bit encryption (at source, in-
flight, and at rest) without any negative impact on built-in compression and WAN acceleration 14
lost password recovery data reduction ratios. Includes lost password protection.

Back up and archive files and VM backups to standalone tapes, tape libraries and virtual tape
libraries connected to any Microsoft Windows server in your environment. Supports copying
Windows, Linux and VM backup files to tape. Includes tight integration with backup jobs and
Native tape support supports full tracking of VMs and restore points on tape as well as in media vaults. Also includes 15

support for global media pools (spanning multiple tape libraries), and a dedicated media pool
type to simplify Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) retention.

Deduplicating storage Get faster backup performance by backing up to deduplicating storage systems (EMC Data
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system integrations Domain Boost, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst and ExaGrid).

Get backups off site up to 50x faster and save bandwidth with agentless Backup Copy jobs and
Built-in WAN Acceleration replicas. 17

Scale-out Backup Provide an abstraction layer over individual storage devices to create a single virtual pool of
18
Repository backup storage for your backups.

Agentless, image-based VM
Replicate VMs on site for high availability or off site for disaster recovery. 19
replication
Veeam Cloud Connect Ensure availability of your mission critical applications with fully integrated, fast and secure
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Replication cloud-based disaster recovery through a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider.

Verified Recoverability
Automatically test and verify every backed up VM for recoverability by running the VM directly
SureBackup from a backup file (no full VM restore is required), including support for custom application test 21
scripts.

Automatically test and verify every replica VM for recoverability, including support for custom
SureReplica application test scripts. 22

Leveraged Data
Run one or more VMs directly from a backup or storage snapshot in an isolated environment
On-Demand Sandbox and troubleshoot, test and train on a working copy of the production environment without 23
impacting business operations.

Complete Visibility

Advanced VM monitoring,
Veeam ONE, part of Veeam Availability Suite, delivers real-time monitoring, reporting and
reporting, and capacity capacity planning for production and backup infrastructures. 24

planning
Support for VMware vSphere 5.x or later, and Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 or later. View both
Multi-hypervisor support hypervisors from a single console. 25

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Validation and substantiation

1
Acronis Backup for VMware does have the ability to boot a VM from a backup. It is limited to VMware vSphere (as are all of the functions of Acronis Backup for VMware). Running VM
from Backup.
2
Acronis Backup for VMware only supports the following file systems: NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, ext2, ext3, ext4, and ReFS. System requirements.
3
Acronis Backup for VMware has no ability to browse and recover data from storage snapshots.
4
Acronis Backup for VMware has no native granular recovery for Microsoft Active Directory. Recovery.
5
Acronis Backup for VMware does protect and recover granular items from Microsoft Exchange without agents. However, browsing mailbox contents requires starting a temporary virtual
machine from the backups selected recovery point. Restoration options of mailbox contents are limited to exporting to a self-extractible archive that must be run on the end-users
desktop. Microsoft Exchange Server Backup Extraction.
6
Acronis Backup for VMware does protect and recover Microsoft SQL Server databases without agents. However, there is no granular recovery of SQL Server data beyond the database
level. Microsoft SQL Server Databases Extraction.
7
Acronis Backup for VMware claims to have agentless recovery for Microsoft SharePoint but actually they are simply doing a SQL restore on the SharePoint database. A separate tool,
Acronis SharePoint Explorer, is then required to do granular SharePoint recovery. Microsoft SharePoint Server Data Extraction.
8
Acronis Backup for VMware has no native Oracle recovery capabilities. Acronis Backup Advanced for Oracle VM is a separately priced and licensed product that requires agents. Acronis
Backup Advanced for Oracle VM.
9
Acronis Backup for VMware does not provide a delegated, self-service portal for application owners to recover their own data.
10
Acronis Backup for VMware does protect virtual machines without agents. However, backup job configuration is limited and can only be scoped to: vCenter, data center, cluster, host,
vApp, and VM. Select VM(s) to back up.
11
Acronis Backup for VMware has no visibility into the datastore I/O load or how it is impacted by a backup job and therefore cannot make intelligent I/O throttling and task placement
decisions.
12
Acronis Backup for VMware has no native storage snapshot integration for backup or restore.
13
Acronis offers their Acronis Cloud Backup service as an optional extra. Customers are required to store their backups with Acronis rather than a service provider of their choice. Not
available in all geographies. Cloud Backup Subscription. Where to back up.
14
256-bit AES encryption is available for encrypting backup files at rest but Acronis Backup for VMware provides no mechanism to recover your backups when backup password is lost.
Encrypted archive. Archive Protection.
15
Acronis Backup for VMware has no native tape support. Where to back up.
16
Acronis Backup for VMware has no integration with EMC Data Domain Boost. Acronis has a sales and marketing relationship with Exagrid but no unique features or technology
integrations. Acronis Backup for VMware has no integration with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst. EMC Data Domain Boost Integrations. Exagrid Supported Backup Applications. HPE StoreOnce
datasheet.
17
Acronis Backup for VMware offers no global cache required by the definition of WAN acceleration. As a result, Acronis Backup for VMware will send the same data (such as blocks from
OS files) over WAN from multiple servers, requiring significantly more bandwidth. Additionally, Acronis Backup for VMware deduplication is optimized for performance as to not impact
local backups, whereas Veeam uses a more advanced deduplication algorithm optimized for better data reduction when data is traversing slow WAN links. Deduplication.
18
Acronis Backup for VMware does not provide an abstraction layer over individual storage devices to create a single virtual pool of backup storage for your backups. Where to back up.
19
Acronis Backup for VMware offers basic image-based VM replication and failover/failback. There are no advanced orchestration, planned failover or scripting capabilities. Managing
replicated VMs.
20
Acronis Backup for VMware does not provide replication capabilities outside of the customers own infrastructure. Select location and datastore for replica.
21
Acronis Backup for VMware has no ability to instantly recover a VM into an isolated network and automatically test for recoverability it verifies that data has been successfully written
to backup storage but it does not verify the integrity of the guest OS data. Validating backups.
22
Acronis Backup for VMware has no ability to automatically validate the recoverability of a replica environment.
23
Acronis Backup for VMware does not provide a supported, managed, and isolated virtual lab environment that is securely accessible from production environment for troubleshooting
applications, testing OS updates and software patches.
24
Acronis Backup for VMware has no capacity monitoring of backup storage or planning based on growth trends. It has no monitoring of VM performance, alerting, or infrastructure
capacity planning.
25
Acronis Backup for VMware supports VMware vSphere only. System requirements.

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only. This document is provided as-is. Information provided in this document may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. We use commercially reasonable efforts to keep our data updated. Information
and substantiation links valid as of 1/27/2016. Veeam assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, claims, or damages resulting from the use of the information herein.