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Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Mike Douthitt
Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time
Siva Kuppala
Offers simplified management and automated recovery process, which reduces the need for manual intervention during a...
From a VMware perspective, we use SRM, or Site Recovery Manager, for disaster recovery. SRM has an automated recovery process, which reduces the... Read more →
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery.""Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.""Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).""The solution is very easy to use.""We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry.""It is a very stable product and very scalable.""What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution.""What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

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"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes.""The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform.""The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations.""The solution is consistent.""The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy.""It's very reliable. The solution is stable.""The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing.""VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."

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Cons
"Could have more integration with other platforms.""The tool should improve synchronization.""The immutable backup could be better.""Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability.""The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional.""One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately.""I would like to see more security features.""The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products.""You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software.""One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting.""Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring.""The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers.""VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing.""Technical support can take some time to respond.""In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
  • "I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
  • "The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
  • "They have a license to pay."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

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  • "Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
  • "Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
  • "The price of this solution is on the expensive side."
  • "The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
  • "The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
  • "The licensing costs are increasing."
  • "It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."
  • "There is an annual license to use this solution."

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    VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
    Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to recovery sites, but many of the disaster recovery tools today still function at the storage layer. Legacy technologies like storage array snapshots, and LUN based replication restrict the configuration options of upstream technologies like VMware Storage DRS. If you wanted to replicate a virtual machine you had to replicate the entire LUN is resided on. You weren’t free to leverage Storage DRS for its automated performance balancing features because a VM could be migrated from one LUN mucking up your storage based replication. Fortunately over the past few years there’s been great advancement in hypervisor based replication technologies. There’s a wealth of competing products vying for customer attention. As always competition drives innovation and value for the consumer. This will be the first of a 4 part blog series that looks at various hypervisor based disaster recovery products. Note this isn’t a review of backup products which is a separate category, we are looking at products specifically designed to assist companies in a disaster scenario. Before talking about products; however, we should understand their underlying architectures, and how it relates to their… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
    Top Answer:Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
    Top Answer:Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product.
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    What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
    Top Answer:The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required. From an improvement perspective, the solution should provide ease of use to its users and try to be a complete solution… more »
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    What do you like most about VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution is consistent.
    Read all 35 answers   →
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:I rate the product price a five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a very high price, and ten is a very low price.
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    What needs improvement with VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors.
    Read all 37 answers   →
    Ranking
    1st
    out of 32 in Disaster Recovery as a Service
    Views
    1,050
    Comparisons
    823
    Reviews
    14
    Average Words per Review
    319
    Rating
    8.4
    6th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    8,050
    Comparisons
    6,298
    Reviews
    26
    Average Words per Review
    408
    Rating
    8.1
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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    Overview

    Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that is part of the vSphere virtualization suite. It helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. VMware SRM aims to minimize data loss and system downtime by letting you automate backups and orchestrate the recovery of entire VMware storage systems. VMware SRM is offered on-premises and on the AWS cloud.

    VMware SRM is most commonly used for:

    • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster avoidance
    • Data center migrations
    • Site-level load balancing
    • Maintenance testing for enterprise applications

    As a disaster recovery tool, VMware SRM:

    • Provides replication technology.
    • Supports policy-based management of backup programs.
    • Lets you run non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.

    VMware SRM Key Features

    Some of VMware SRM’s key features include:
    Good scalability and stability, fast and reliable recovery, automated orchestration workflows, automated recovery of network and security settings, non-disruptive recovery testing, orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion, stretched storage support, and self-service provisioning.

    VMware SRM Benefits

    The main benefits of using VMware SRM include:

    • Integration: VMware SRM integrates with other VMware technologies and architectures.

    • Non-disruptive testing: VMware SRM allows you to conduct tests during business hours without disruptions.

    • Reduced recovery time: By using automated orchestration workflows, VMware SRM helps to decrease recovery time to just minutes.

    • Automated failback: With automated failback, you can resume business operations as normal very quickly.

    • Extensibility for custom automation: With VMware SRM, you can use the Orchestrator plug-in to build custom automation workflows.

    • Automated network mappings: You can automatically map network settings across the two sites when creating a recovery plan.

    • Eliminate the need to re-configure IP addresses: With VMware SRM’s automated recovery of network and security settings, it is not necessary to e-configure IP addresses on recovered VMs via integration with NSX. Configurations are also reduced post-recovery by implementing security policies.

    • Centralized recovery plans: VMware SRM’s centralized recovery plans help you protect thousands of VM’s and also make it possible to eliminate manual runbooks.

    • Protect investments: With supported replication, VMware SRM helps protect investments and tailor RPOs.

    • Lower TCO: By using VMware SRM, you can lower your TCO and incur lower expenses for disaster recovery.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are reviews from PeerSpot users who are currently using the solution:

    PeerSpot user Eslam E., Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr, explains his experience using the solution and says that "VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."

    A founder at a comms service provider commented on the solution's efficiency, noting, "If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."

    Reviewer Rakesh-P., who is a consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd., mentions why he finds VMware SRM to be a good product, commenting that “The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing. The reports are very good.”

    Ahmed F., a consultant at Daniyals Inc, says that the solution doesn’t require a lot of resources and that "The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Insurance Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise60%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 18 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.

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