We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and VMware SRM 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."The solution is very easy to use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"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."
"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."
"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"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."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"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."
"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."
"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"The product's stability could be better."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 18 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Commvault Cloud, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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