Azure Site Recovery vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

Azure Site Recovery vs. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

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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 (8th)

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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ClaudioSalgado

IT Architect Consultant at RTFM

Offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites

It offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots. It allows for automated VM protection during processes like failover and testing, and it offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites. It also provides IP address management when network configurations differ across sites.

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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."

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."

"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."

"The solution is very easy to use."

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

"The product's initial setup phase was quite easy to install."

"The generalization of the journals allows us to go back in time and choose the snapshot suitable for us. We can grab it as needed."

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

"The most valuable feature is the ability to change IP addresses when failing a server over."

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

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

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

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Cons

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

"The immutable backup could be better."

"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."

"I would like to see more security features."

"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."

"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

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"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."

"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."

"In some cases, the response times could improve, but we haven't had issues with their 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'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."

"Maybe integration with Kubernetes for OpenShift would be helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

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

"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."

"They have a license to pay."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"This is an expensive product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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 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.

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...

What is your primary use case for Azure Site Recovery?

My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.

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

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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.

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

Azure Site Recovery vs. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines