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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.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM Report (Updated: March 2024).
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"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 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.""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.""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.""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.""They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

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"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters.""The solution is simple to use and has effective automation.""VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments.""It's very reliable. The solution is stable.""The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten.""The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing.""The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours.""This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."

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Cons
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing.""I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call.""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.""It could include more of a backup and recovery.""The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required.""One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately.""The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional.""In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

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"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well.""The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors.""The user experience could be more friendly.""The price, in general, could be lower.""SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery.""The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required.""Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive.""In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
  • "They have a license to pay."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
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  • "Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
  • "Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
  • "The price of this solution is on the expensive side."
  • "The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
  • "The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
  • "The licensing costs are increasing."
  • "It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."
  • "There is an annual license to use this solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required. From an improvement perspective, the solution should provide ease of use to its users and try to be a complete solution… more »
    Top Answer:The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours.
    Top Answer:I rate the product price a five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a very high price, and ten is a very low price.
    Top Answer:It is important to understand that Broadcom's acquisition of VMware is one of the major problems attached to the solution right now to understand what needs improvement in the product. The product's… more »
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    Also Known As
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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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.

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that is part of the vSphere virtualization suite. It helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. VMware SRM aims to minimize data loss and system downtime by letting you automate backups and orchestrate the recovery of entire VMware storage systems. VMware SRM is offered on-premises and on the AWS cloud.

    VMware SRM is most commonly used for:

    • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster avoidance
    • Data center migrations
    • Site-level load balancing
    • Maintenance testing for enterprise applications

    As a disaster recovery tool, VMware SRM:

    • Provides replication technology.
    • Supports policy-based management of backup programs.
    • Lets you run non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.

    VMware SRM Key Features

    Some of VMware SRM’s key features include:
    Good scalability and stability, fast and reliable recovery, automated orchestration workflows, automated recovery of network and security settings, non-disruptive recovery testing, orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion, stretched storage support, and self-service provisioning.

    VMware SRM Benefits

    The main benefits of using VMware SRM include:

    • Integration: VMware SRM integrates with other VMware technologies and architectures.

    • Non-disruptive testing: VMware SRM allows you to conduct tests during business hours without disruptions.

    • Reduced recovery time: By using automated orchestration workflows, VMware SRM helps to decrease recovery time to just minutes.

    • Automated failback: With automated failback, you can resume business operations as normal very quickly.

    • Extensibility for custom automation: With VMware SRM, you can use the Orchestrator plug-in to build custom automation workflows.

    • Automated network mappings: You can automatically map network settings across the two sites when creating a recovery plan.

    • Eliminate the need to re-configure IP addresses: With VMware SRM’s automated recovery of network and security settings, it is not necessary to e-configure IP addresses on recovered VMs via integration with NSX. Configurations are also reduced post-recovery by implementing security policies.

    • Centralized recovery plans: VMware SRM’s centralized recovery plans help you protect thousands of VM’s and also make it possible to eliminate manual runbooks.

    • Protect investments: With supported replication, VMware SRM helps protect investments and tailor RPOs.

    • Lower TCO: By using VMware SRM, you can lower your TCO and incur lower expenses for disaster recovery.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are reviews from PeerSpot users who are currently using the solution:

    PeerSpot user Eslam E., Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr, explains his experience using the solution and says that "VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."

    A founder at a comms service provider commented on the solution's efficiency, noting, "If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."

    Reviewer Rakesh-P., who is a consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd., mentions why he finds VMware SRM to be a good product, commenting that “The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing. The reports are very good.”

    Ahmed F., a consultant at Daniyals Inc, says that the solution doesn’t require a lot of resources and that "The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Government8%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Government14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise45%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 14 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 27 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 "Robust reliability tool ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for virtualized environments". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, CloudEndure 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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