"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."
"The most valuable feature is that it is journal-based and you don't have to replicate a lot of data."
"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."
"Continuous replication with lower RTO and RPO is the most innovative feature. Its tight integration with VMware for VMware VMs is also valuable."
"The installation is straightforward if the version you have is compatible with your infrastructure."
"The solution is very flexible."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"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."
"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."
"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."
"The solution could improve by being more easier to use. However, once you have used it for a while it becomes easier. Additionally, there could be better support and compatibility with management by having a command-line interface. This would be beneficial for the customers."
"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."
"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"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 this solution be more scalable."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
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Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is ranked 11th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 5 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 8th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 15 reviews. Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines writes "An efficient, journal-based replication system providing disaster recovery for organizations of all sizes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Enables us to get a lot of server images successfully but it has connectivity issues with auto-recovery". Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, Vembu BDR Suite and HPE Disaster Recovery Services, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, Nutanix Xi Leap and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. VMware SRM report.
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