Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. VMware Live Recovery

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Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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VMware Live Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 4.9%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 13.2%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Disaster Recovery as a Service

133.3%

Featured Reviews

Wessel Vermeulen

IT Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sep 30, 2020

Stable and straightforward to install, and offers point-in-time recovery

I use RecoverPoint for VMs to for critical backups It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy. The price of this product could be lower. I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment. This means that you have to use…

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

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

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature is that it is journal-based and you don't have to replicate a lot of data."

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

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

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"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."

"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."

"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 very flexible."

"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."

"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."

"SRM's best feature is automation."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."

"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."

"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The product's stability could be better."

"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."

"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."

"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."

"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."

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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."

"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."

"It is an expensive platform. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

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

"The pricing is good."

"Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs."

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

"We have a standard enterprise license for the solution."

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

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

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Comparison Review

it_user159711

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

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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.

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

It is on the expensive side.

What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

While Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines offers a solid solution for our local and remote data protection needs, there are a couple of areas that could be improved. The configuration process se...

What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

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

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.

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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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

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. VMware Live Recovery