Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Dell Technologies and IBM are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and IBM Disaster Recovery Services 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (9th)

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th)

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ClaudioSalgado

IT Architect Consultant at RTFM

Offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites

It offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots. It allows for automated VM protection during processes like failover and testing, and it offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites. It also provides IP address management when network configurations differ across sites.

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Şefik Mert Polatay

General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The technical support from Dell is excellent."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

"The most valuable features are the data center recovery administration and the time of recovery."

"The generalization of the journals allows us to go back in time and choose the snapshot suitable for us. We can grab it as needed."

"One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability."

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

"The product's initial setup phase was quite easy to install."

"The installation is straightforward if the version you have is compatible with your infrastructure."

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"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

Cons

"I would like to see integration with EMC NetWorker in the next release."

"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."

"Maybe integration with Kubernetes for OpenShift would be helpful."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"In some cases, the response times could improve, but we haven't had issues with their support."

"The solution currently supports only VMware."

"The solution currently supports only VMware. There is increasing demand for compatibility with other hypervisors, such as Hyper V and KVM Proxmox. Additionally, licensing has become less flexible and more expensive."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

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"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Stability could always be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"This is an expensive product."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

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What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

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What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Overview

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.

IBM

Sample Customers

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n

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