Azure Site Recovery vs Veritas System Recovery comparison

Microsoft and Veritas are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 70% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

Veritas System Recovery

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70% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Veritas System Recovery 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 (2nd)

Veritas System Recovery

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (28th)

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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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Sareesh V

Sr.System Administrator at Suwaidi

The solution can be used for DR testing and allows running an infinite number of full backups

When we consider the backup model of other products like Veeam, their incremental backup just adds to their first full backup. With Veritas System Recovery, we have the option to run an infinite number of full backups according to our requirements. With my cloud version of Veritas System Recovery, I can have a full backup every month, which is not possible with any other vendors. Other vendors will claim that the original copy is strong enough, but the customers have to ensure that bugs won't cause any problems in the future. However, with Veritas System Recovery, you can run a full backup this month and again run a full backup on the first or thirtieth day of the next month.

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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

"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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"With Veritas System Recovery, we have the option to run an infinite number of full backups according to our requirements."

"The tool helps automate system recovery. The solution is most useful in scenarios involving restoration to a different environment. For instance, when migrating from a physical server to a virtual one, the tool facilitates conversion."

"The installation was straightforward."

"It has a user-friendly interface."

"The solution has helped reduce my company's cost by around 50 to 60 percent."

"You can back up the whole image."

"The solution captures the system state, so when we restore the system, it will be restored to the state it was in at the time of the backup."

"Offers good recovery quickly."

Cons

"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."

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

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

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

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

"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"I would like to see more security features."

More Azure Site Recovery cons

"Veritas System Recovery’s pricing and local support need some improvement."

"It needs an easier interface."

"We faced issues with recovery and restoration."

"Veritas System Recovery Manager offers some manager solutions, but there is room for improvement."

"The reliability is sometimes lacking."

"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"The tool's deployment could be easier. The deployment itself isn't the issue; rather, the problem lies in configuring policies and testing everything before it's ready. We invest a significant amount of time in preparing for various scenarios. However, we often encounter situations where changes have occurred since our initial preparations. This can render the automation less valuable."

"The pricing could be cheaper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"They have a license to pay."

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

"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."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There is no need to pay any additional fees apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

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	1
Large Enterprise	3

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 do you like most about Veritas System Recovery?

The tool helps automate system recovery. The solution is most useful in scenarios involving restoration to a different environment. For instance, when migrating from a physical server to a virtual ...

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What needs improvement with Veritas System Recovery?

The tool's deployment could be easier. The deployment itself isn't the issue; rather, the problem lies in configuring policies and testing everything before it's ready. We invest a significant amou...

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What advice do you have for others considering Veritas System Recovery?

The tool is a last resort. We primarily focus on preventing situations where its use becomes necessary. While we sell and test this tool, our customers don't frequently need to use it because it pr...

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Veritas System Recovery 18, System Recovery 18, System Recovery

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

Veritas System Recovery 18 delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, and laptops with a single unified solution that enables businesses to recover from downtime or disasters in minutes. With patented Restore Anyware technology, IT administrators can rapidly restore exactly what they need, when and where they need it - including entire physical and virtual machines to bare metal or dissimilar hardware as well as files, folders, and granular application objects. Unlike other technologies, Veritas System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it the perfect complement to physical and virtual environments.

Veritas

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Mother's Nutritional Center, Occidental Technical Group

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