Azure Site Recovery vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

Microsoft and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)

Featured Reviews

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions

There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.

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Alex McIntosh

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Seamless data protection and IP address management streamline server failover

I recommend Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. I work for a financial institution, and it does what we need it to do. I would rate the product eight out of ten. For improvement, I suggest better orchestration management for easier failovers. I would rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

"The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature."

"A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site."

"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."

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"The most valuable feature is that it is journal-based and you don't have to replicate a lot of data."

"The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site."

"The technical support from Dell is excellent."

"It is a very simple tool to use and offers flexibility in using the tool for recovery and transitioning from one state to another."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

"Continuous replication with lower RTO and RPO is the most innovative feature. Its tight integration with VMware for VMware VMs is also valuable."

"The installation is straightforward if the version you have is compatible with your infrastructure."

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Cons

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"I would like to see more security features."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration with other services."

"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."

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"The solution could improve by being more easier to use. However, once you have used it for a while it becomes easier. Additionally, there could be better support and compatibility with management by having a command-line interface. This would be beneficial for the customers."

"The solution's technical team has enough skills, but the process can get complicated with the time you get connected with the L3 support."

"The configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."

"It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side."

"The solution currently supports only VMware. There is increasing demand for compatibility with other hypervisors, such as Hyper V and KVM Proxmox. Additionally, licensing has become less flexible and more expensive."

"I would like to see integration with EMC NetWorker in the next release."

"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They have a license to pay."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"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."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"This is an expensive product."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site 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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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What is your primary use case for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

I was actually just having a quick look to compare some solutions, but we are going to stick with what we currently have, which is Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ( /products/dell-recoverpoi...

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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.

Microsoft

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

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