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

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

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 (2nd)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th)

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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Sofien SMIDA

Head of Data Center at National Center of Informatics

Simplifies snapshot recovery and improves compatibility challenges

The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX. Initially, making the two storage systems replicate was not an easy task. There was a splitting in the fiber switches at first. Then, the RPAs, which manage replication, would move the IO blocks to the second system. In the end, the two systems were not the same, which made it difficult to synchronize them. However, we succeeded in replicating smoothly with Oracle databases and Windows machines. When we acquired the VPLEX Virtual solutions, it became much easier. It was a piece of cake to do the replication between two VPLEX systems since they communicate in the same language.

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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

"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."

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

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

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."

"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."

"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."

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

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

"Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots."

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

"Point-in-time recovery and ease of deployment are valuable."

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

"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."

"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."

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Cons

"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."

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

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

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"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."

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"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 biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

"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."

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

"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."

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

"It should have features for recovering a group of virtual machines and full-scale security. For recovering all the VMs at once, they don't have a GUI option, and we have to use the command line."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"They have a license to pay."

"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."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"This is an expensive product."

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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

12%

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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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 53% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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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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