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Cutover vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cutover
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
2
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
82
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Cutover is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 9.0%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Live Recovery9.0%
Cutover1.5%
Other89.5%
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

Sayed Basha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT platform engineer at Infosys via consign Space Solutions pvt ltd
Automation has transformed complex cloud migrations and now saves significant operational time
From what I have experienced with Cutover, it is a fantastic and very productive tool for things like disaster recovery, migration, or repetitive API tasks. All these things can be automated and save a lot of time. However, Cutover is available only at the enterprise level and is not available for startups or as an open-source tool. If Cutover were available to small teams who want to use it for disaster recovery or migration purposes on a small scale, not at the enterprise level, that would be great. If there were a free or limited version of Cutover for startups, it would spread awareness of what Cutover is across the IT industry and help IT admins or organizations understand how it can benefit them from a business perspective.The user interface I have used in the last twenty-one months is very good, but it could be a little more feature-rich. There are a very small number of features available in the user interface, such as user management, runbook management, and runbook creation. These are the kinds of features that could be improved with respect to the Cutover user interface. Also, regarding documentation, from what I have used online or in Google searches, I find there is limited documentation regarding how to install it locally. If a startup or small-scale organization wants to use Cutover for disaster recovery, migration, or automation, there is a lack of documentation available online. That is something that can be improved with respect to Cutover.
SuhailAkhtar - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Cutover is the best artificial intelligence-enabled tool that can be used for automation, migration, and disaster recovery."
"Cutover has positively impacted my organization by largely reducing cycle time."
"VMware SRM is very reliable and stable."
"The AC replication is integrated with a software base, set up cost, and easy installation and configuration."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"They provide very good technical support that is affordable."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The non-disruptive testing feature is a mature technology in the solution"
"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."
"Every feature is quite good, and we haven't faced any issues or complaints."
 

Cons

"However, Cutover is available only at the enterprise level and is not available for startups or as an open-source tool."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"I personally will not continue using the VMware SRM solution."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"Smaller sites or sites with mixed storage platforms rely on vSphere replication for DR purposes so additional scalability in this tool would benefit from this."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"VMware SRM is an expensive solution, and users need to pay extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"SRM is reasonably priced for the functionality it provides."
"VMware sells in bundles of 50 VMs, so if we want to expand, we have to buy the whole bundle."
"VMware SRM is a little bit pricey."
"After Broadcom acquired the solution, the licensing cost increased drastically"
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight to nine out of ten."
"The price of VMware SRM depends on how many VMs the customer has to move. There is a difference between the standard and enterprise license. I'm presenting the standard license to my customers because the total of VMs is not more than 50. The customer needs only the standard license and the cost is very effective for him."
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise41
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cutover?
From what I have experienced with Cutover, it is a fantastic and very productive tool for things like disaster recovery, migration, or repetitive API tasks. All these things can be automated and sa...
What is your primary use case for Cutover?
Cutover is primarily used in my organization for automation purposes, mainly through the Cutover page.In my organization, Cutover was used as a migration tool for automating many tasks that would h...
What advice do you have for others considering Cutover?
Cutover should definitely be used as an automation tool, a migration tool, or a disaster recovery tool. The integration only has to happen in the back end one time, and if the integration is done, ...
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 ...
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
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 escala...
What is your primary use case for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
We are the partner as well as the integrator, and we mostly work in the integration industry. Integration is our core business, but we also do partnership activities. Most of our projects are based...
 

Also Known As

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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM
 

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Sample Customers

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Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON
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