We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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."It is very stable."
"I like the tool's speed."
"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"The product's deployment process was straightforward."
"Arcserve has a feature called virtual standby (VSB), which has been very helpful because I already have a hot standby copy of my critical infrastructure. If something breaks, I can spin up that virtual standby copy in less than five minutes and ensure that my data is available to everyone and that business continuity is maintained."
"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The solution is scalable."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"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."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly. It can be difficult to assign destinations and choose which files and folders we need to back up. There are some aspects that are unclear."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 9th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 41 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". 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". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, 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 Arcserve UDP vs. VMware SRM report.
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