OpenText VM Explorer Reviews & Product Details

VM Explorer helps multiple virtualization platforms, consisting of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. This compatibility permits customers to defend their digital machine (VM) environments, no matter their underlying infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the VM Explorer, there is a need to improve monitoring capabilities. In addition, they would like to see more visibility and real-time monitoring of backup jobs, status updates, and alerts. Enhanced monitoring functionality would provide greater visibility of the backup environment and assistance in identifying potential issues or bottlenecks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Administrators may easily navigate and create backup tasks with the software's simple approach to managing virtual machine backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the program is compatible with virtualized systems like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, its native interaction with cloud platforms or backup targets may be limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quite easy to use and compatible with most VM systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no community version. Only the 15-day trial version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps keep backups for VMs in Vmware, Vsphere, and hyper V environments.

Easy to use

Reliable.

Low cost.

Offers faster VM backups

helps in replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

only 1.6 or higher versions offer Esxi Backups.

Some servers must be put into maintenance mode during the backup process.

Considering the remaining part is a very reliable choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it was more reliable backup solutions for virtual environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

too many configurations steps and GUI shall be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and quick web based response. Also, you can connect to any destination for storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limit of 2 servers in the free license version. Upping this limit to three would make it the perfect companion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Backup to Disk, Tape, and Cloud, Very Afforable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not enough trial versions, For multiple users . However the free version that offered give us a idea but we would love the concept Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best thing of ths backup software for virtual environment is that it supports both Vmware ESX and Microsoft hyper-v. Another thing that we love about that software is the support to all versions of VmWare esx both Payment and Free version. One more thing is the seplicity of configuration that not require high end skill or specific certifcation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the missing point is that he don't support some feature like Deduplication and Compression, the price in comprarion from the previous version has become a bit expansive compared to other product like this, but remains anyway a perfect product if you had a lot of esxi free server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love being able to back up our entire infrastructure and know that we can recover when we need it. We have use the backups on many occasions to help us or clients. Easy to setup.

What we are currently using:

1. The Instant VM Recovery Service. Total lifesaver for us. We can recover the VM directly on the backup machine and within minutes have the backup ready to recover files and transfer them between machines.

2. Instant file restore. We can browse full and incremental backups to find individual files and restore them directly to the live machine if needed. Great for config files that have been accidentally overwritten.

3. We are a PCI shop and need our backups encrypted. VME allows us to do that.

4. Offsite backups to Amazon S3 storage.

5. Verification of backups. Once the backup is done, there is an option in VME to boot up the VM and actually take a screenshot to verify the integrity of the backup. It is included along with the backup to verify. This is priceless to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. Have tried many different offerings out there and for the price - this product offers the most enterprise features that just work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to use use and intuitive

Everything is webbrowser-based and it doesn't have a thousand vaguely named different pages, like competitors. It's clear where it what and what will do what, with great explanations.

- In its priceclass an absolute recommendation

Of course you could use top tier software with WAN acceleration, etc. But you'll pay top dollar for top shelf.

VM Explorer might like a few enterprise features but includes close-to everything you'll need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- I'd like more customization with backup plans

You could build backup plans to save weekly and monthly and daily (though not yearly, for some reason?), but you can't just create one job which will save x backups monthly, weekly and daily for a period of x months/weeks/days.

Which would make creating a thorough backup plan much quicker

- Once in a while (every 2 weeks or so) it just fails with one VM or so... For some odd reason. We have this running on a dozen sites with different infrastructures, so it's not really an underlying problem, as far as I can tell. VM Explorer would just say it couldn't open the firewall ports or couldn't overwrite a file, etc.

- incremental is available, but just plain handicapped, as you can't save to any drive, but a drive attached to the server where the backup software is running on. I find this unacceptable and I'm hoping for it to be resolved in an update.

- I don't like that there's no proprietary format option, which would allow thin disks to be saved outside of an ESXI environment, like on an RDX cartridge or so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.