Azure Site Recovery vs Recovery Manager for Active Directory comparison

Azure Site Recovery vs. Recovery Manager for Active Directory

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Recovery Manager for Active...

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (27th), Active Directory Recovery (1st)

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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Krisarlex Foronda

Senior Operations Manager at Procter & Gamble

Offers zero-touch or zero-intervention aspects, stable and easy to setup

Inside the console, when you change something in the computer collection, there's no history or log showing what's been done. For example, if I add or remove a domain controller from the compare collection, the console doesn't record the time or the user who made the change. This makes it difficult to manage the console, especially for auditing purposes. It lacks login capability within Recovery Manager for Active Directory. This means if I delegate tasks to a level two or an interim level three technician, and they make a mistake, it's difficult to track. Ideally, I'd like to monitor who makes changes within the console to ensure proper management. Currently, that kind of capability isn't available.

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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."

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

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

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

"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 most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."

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

More Azure Site Recovery pros

"I like the zero-touch or zero-intervention aspect the most when it comes to performing a forest restoration (FOHO). It is really automated. If you set everything correctly, it will restore your forest without any manual steps."

"The feature that automates most of the tasks is the most valuable since you do not have to worry about making sure that you follow the steps one by one manually during a disaster."

"Our impression of the solution for providing a clean, malware-free recovery and protecting our AD backups from compromise is that it is probably one of the best options available."

Cons

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

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"I would like to see more security features."

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

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"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."

"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."

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

More Azure Site Recovery cons

"Inside the console, when you change something in the computer collection, there's no history or log showing what's been done. For example, if I add or remove a domain controller from the compare collection, the console doesn't record the time or the user who made the change. This makes it difficult to manage the console, especially for auditing purposes. It lacks login capability within Recovery Manager for Active Directory."

"One of the things they can do is give the user the ability to skip the prechecks and verifications."

"I identified a gap with their Recovery Manager for AD Forest Edition. That software can't recover for us if we have a complete malware/ransomware-type scenario where we lose all our domain controllers. If you lose the entire forest, you can't get it back up with the Forest Edition. You have to use their Disaster Recovery Edition."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"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."

"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."

"Comparing it to other vendors, it seems to be affordable. So, it is worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

University

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

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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 do you like most about Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory?

I like the zero-touch or zero-intervention aspect the most when it comes to performing a forest restoration (FOHO). It is really automated. If you set everything correctly, it will restore your for...

What is your primary use case for Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory?

We use Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory to test disaster recovery, and we use it to restore objects as they get deleted by mistake or mistakes happen.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory?

The pricing is in the middle. Comparing it to other vendors, it seems to be affordable. So, it is worth the money.

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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

Recovery Manager for Active Directory is designed to provide a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for Active Directory environments. It offers features that streamline restoration processes, improve efficiency, and reduce downtime.

Recovery Manager for Active Directory allows IT professionals to quickly address and resolve disruptions with its restoration and data protection capabilities. It minimizes the interruption caused by unforeseen errors by allowing administrators to restore data to a previous state. This is particularly important in maintaining continuity and ensuring data integrity within Active Directory environments.

What are the key features of Recovery Manager for Active Directory?

Automated Backups: Facilitates regular and automatic backup schedules, ensuring latest configurations are always safe.
Granular Restore: Provides flexibility by allowing restoration of entire domains or specific objects.
Reporting: Delivers detailed reports on backup status and potential issues for proactive management.
Integration: Works seamlessly with existing Active Directory to ensure consistency and reliability.

What benefits or ROI should users consider in reviews?

Reduced Downtime: Quick recovery times mean businesses resume operations faster.
Data Integrity: Consistent backups ensure no data loss during recovery.
Ease of Use: Streamlined processes simplify management tasks.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Recovery Manager for Active Directory implementation revolves around safeguarding critical data and maintaining service continuity. These sectors often require robust and swift recovery mechanisms to protect sensitive information and comply with stringent regulatory requirements. Recovery Manager for Active Directory serves as a reliable choice to meet these demands.

Quest Software

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

American Airlines, Bank of America, Ebay, intel, Uber, at&t, Ford, Microsoft, Visa, Barclays, Mars, Merck

Azure Site Recovery vs. Recovery Manager for Active Directory