We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster 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."The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."
"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."
"Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy."
"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."
"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."
"The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."
"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."
"The product should improve compute points."
"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."
"The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"The cost is acceptable."
"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
Acronis Disaster Recovery is ranked 18th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 10 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. Acronis Disaster Recovery is rated 8.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Disaster Recovery writes "Easy to implement and provides good features like patch management and disaster recovery". 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". Acronis Disaster Recovery is most compared with Arcserve UDP, Veeam Backup & Replication and Azure Site Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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