Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

Dell Technologies and VMware are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Dell Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while VMware is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. Dell Technologies holds a 7.8% mindshare in DRS, compared to VMware’s 17.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and VMware Live Recovery are solutions in the virtualization recovery space. Dell RecoverPoint has an advantage in pricing and support, while VMware Live Recovery is favored for its feature set and value despite higher costs.

Features: Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines delivers robust data protection, rapid recovery, and continuous replication, ensuring efficient recovery points. VMware Live Recovery focuses on high availability, instant recovery, and seamless integration with VMware environments, providing advanced features that stand out in VMware-centric setups.

Room for Improvement: Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines could enhance its integration with non-VMware environments and improve advanced recovery features to compete better with feature-rich solutions. It may also benefit from refining its UI for easier navigation. VMware Live Recovery might improve its cost-effectiveness and simplify the deployment process for users outside the VMware ecosystem. Additionally, reducing the complexity of integration with third-party tools could be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines offers a simpler deployment process backed by strong customer support, facilitating quick problem resolution. VMware Live Recovery's deployment is more complex but benefits from integration with VMware tools and strong technical support channels. Dell offers a user-friendly experience, while VMware provides advantages for existing VMware infrastructure users.

Pricing and ROI: Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines presents a cost-effective setup with strong ROI potential through resource efficiency and low operational overheads. VMware Live Recovery requires higher initial investment but provides comprehensive features and compatibility with VMware ecosystems, offering significant long-term benefits despite upfront costs. Dell is more immediately cost-effective, whereas VMware delivers returns in advanced feature priority environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Live Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 7.8%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 17.2%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Eslam El-Sayaad

Senior Solution Architect at BARQ Systems

Jan 13, 2023

A stable and scalable solution that helps protect our virtual machines

We encourage customers to use this solution if they have two sites. For example, an HQ and a disaster recovery site. The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side. We suggest the customer makes a…

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Siva Kuppala

Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited

Apr 30, 2024

Offers simplified management and automated recovery process, which reduces the need for manual intervention during a disaster

Automated recovery is one good feature, SRM also offers simplified management. It has a centralized interface for configuring, testing, and executing disaster recovery plans across multiple sites. This means management from a single point, even for many sites. Recovery plans can be different for customers. So, another important feature is the policy-based protection within SRM. Recovery plans can be customized based on business requirements, including Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). These objectives might differ between industries – healthcare might need a more aggressive RPO, for instance. Additionally, SRM offers failback capabilities and reporting features for compliance.

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

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

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

"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."

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

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."

"Continuous replication with lower RTO and RPO is the most innovative feature. Its tight integration with VMware for VMware VMs is also valuable."

"The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site."

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"The most valuable features are the backup and disaster recovery services."

"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."

"The initial setup is easy depending on the environment you are working with."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."

"SRM's best feature is automation."

"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."

"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."

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Cons

"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."

"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 configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."

"The solution's technical team has enough skills, but the process can get complicated with the time you get connected with the L3 support."

"It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side."

"It should have features for recovering a group of virtual machines and full-scale security. For recovering all the VMs at once, they don't have a GUI option, and we have to use the command line."

"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."

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

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"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."

"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."

"The user experience could be more friendly."

"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."

"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."

"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."

"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."

"It would be ideal if they added advanced analytics or AI to the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive product."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The price could be lower, in general. My clients pay for an annual license."

"It is reasonably priced, and its cost hasn't been a significant factor in our implementation."

"The licensing costs for the product are perpetual in nature. A person needs to buy the license only once there is a need to buy support on a yearly basis. The licensing cost for VMware SRM is expensive."

"The price of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery should be lowered in order to compete better in the market."

"It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."

"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the most expensive."

"The pricing is good."

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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…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

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

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

The solution's technical team has enough skills, but the process can get complicated with the time you get connected with the L3 support.

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What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs. Their capabilities are extensive, but the licensing model can be complex.

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

While there are no major drawbacks, some potential improvements could address complexities in implementing and maintaining SRM. The cost can be significant, and there's a resource overhead – meanin...

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Comparisons

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Compared 3% of the time

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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.

VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides a comprehensive solution to safeguard critical data and applications from cyberattacks and other disasters.

Sample Customers

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON

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