Azure Site Recovery vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

Microsoft and Broadcom are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Broadcom is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. Microsoft holds a 16.5% mindshare in DRS, compared to Broadcom’s 13.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

VMware Live Recovery

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 5, 2025

Azure Site Recovery and VMware Live Recovery are competitors in the business continuity solutions category. Azure Site Recovery seems to have the upper hand due to its seamless integration with Azure services, whereas VMware Live Recovery excels in automation and integration with VMware environments.

Features: Azure Site Recovery is noted for its seamless failover, synchronization, and scalability. It integrates well with Azure services, providing cost-saving potential, and boasts ease of use for existing Azure users. VMware Live Recovery is strong in automation, zero RPO and RTO options, and comprehensive disaster recovery tools. It integrates well with VMware environments but may face challenges with non-VMware setups.

Room for Improvement: Azure Site Recovery users have suggested improvements in replication consistency, error logging, and pricing flexibility. Integration with non-Azure services has also been noted as a challenge. VMware Live Recovery could enhance its user interface, synchronization with non-VMware environments, and pricing structure.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Site Recovery is praised for its flexibility in public and hybrid cloud deployments, with mixed reviews on Microsoft support effectiveness. VMware Live Recovery offers strong integration with VMware environments but faces complexity in technical support and customer service experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Azure Site Recovery offers flexible pricing benefiting from cost savings in reducing physical DR site infrastructure, providing good ROI. VMware Live Recovery, despite being perceived as expensive, offers significant ROI through its comprehensive recovery solutions. Azure’s pricing is more transparent, while VMware’s is considered high but justified by its robust capabilities.

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

7.2

Azure Site Recovery is cost-effective, time-saving, and reliable, optimizing virtual machine processes and offering an alternative to secondary data centers.

Sentiment score

5.5

VMware Live Recovery offers strong ROI, reducing DR costs up to 50% and improving financial performance with effective resource planning.

Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.4

Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with mixed reviews on response times and communication efficiency.

Sentiment score

4.1

VMware Live Recovery customer service is generally effective, but occasional delays and improvement suggestions exist, especially with third-party issues.

During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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They are knowledgeable.

Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga

IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

Our team has dedicated personnel for support who engage with the supporting teams.

SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

The technical support from VMware is very good and operates based on a service level.

ErmiasGirma

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is scalable, excelling in cloud migration and disaster recovery for businesses, despite regional scalability variations.

Sentiment score

5.4

VMware Live Recovery is scalable, supports various environments, though licensing and upgrades may challenge some users.

I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability and scalability, frequently scoring between seven and ten by users.

Sentiment score

8.5

VMware Live Recovery is generally stable and reliable, though some users face issues during upgrades or high-capacity use.

The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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For our test labs, dev labs, and production, it is very stable.

SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

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Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs better integration, deployment, stability, security, and support, with improved logging, pricing, and platform compatibility.

VMware Live Recovery needs better storage integration, automation, support, interface, documentation, pricing, cloud compatibility, and enhanced AI capabilities.

If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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It's important for the cost to be justified based on the features used in production.

Sven Nimmich

Solution Architect at Lenovo

I would like to see improved integration services with other solutions, such as SIEM management or security monitoring.

Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga

IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

They follow their SOP, but they initially engage very low-level personnel who are not able to answer or resolve the issue, so they escalate or take a very long time to resolve the issue.

SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

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Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery offers cost-effective DR solutions despite complex billing, with average monthly site-to-site replication costs at $225.

VMware Live Recovery costs depend on VM count and protection plan, with pricing complexity increasing after the Broadcom acquisition.

It was not the expensive part of our costs.

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

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

Ashadeep Parida

IT Manager at NTT DATA

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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Previously, when acquiring a license for Ethiopian drug supply chains, the price was significantly high, especially after Broadcom joined VMware.

ErmiasGirma

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

For cloud-based solutions, the cost seems quite pricey, so we stick to on-premises deployment.

Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga

IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

We mostly prefer to recommend this to customers due to ease of use, abundant features, and support.

SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

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Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery is praised for seamless failover, ease of use, compatibility, but may be costly for smaller clients.

The solution provides automated disaster recovery, VMware integration, and seamless management for robust business continuity and operational efficiency.

Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.

Jenny Ng

Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

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

reviewer2698704

Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

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It is used for data replication between data centers and allows for quick response in times of failure, ensuring data availability.

ErmiasGirma

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

If I talk about vCenter and the auto failover of the VMs, such as live migration, that is a very cool feature that we require in our environment because we have different data centers, and if some of the servers fail, they automatically failover and move the VM from one side to another.

SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

The capability and the functionality of the features are very helpful for us.

Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga

IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Live Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 16.5%, down from 21.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 13.0%, down from 28.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
VMware Live Recovery	13.0%
Azure Site Recovery	16.5%
Other	70.5%

Disaster Recovery as a Service

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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SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

Has enabled seamless VM management and automated failover while support response needs improvement

For support issues, they help with the issue, but it takes a very long time. The reason is that they engage a very initial resource and then escalate to another level, and during these level escalations, our time is wasted. They do not understand the severity of the issue. They go through step-by-step and then go to the upper level. This may be their SOP, but we require instant support and instant resolution of the problem, so here VMware Live Recovery is lacking. They follow their SOP, but they initially engage very low-level personnel who are not able to answer or resolve the issue, so they escalate or take a very long time to resolve the issue. The main issue is to improve the approach of resolving solutions. I may not be able to suggest new features because in these recent months, I have not been very close to it as we are exploring different solutions.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	40

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 VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

We have been using VMware Live Recovery since 2015, and most of our effort relies on it. I personally feel that it is very easy to use, easy to manage, and provides many features compared to other ...

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

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Comparisons

HPE Zerto Software vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 16% of the time

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 14% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 11% of the time

Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 7% of the time

SEP Software vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 6% of the time

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Veeam Data Platform vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 26% of the time

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 24% of the time

HPE Zerto Software vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 12% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 3% of the time

Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs VMware Live Recovery

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM

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

VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides a comprehensive solution to safeguard critical data and applications from cyberattacks and other disasters.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON

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