Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"The most valuable feature we have found in RecoverPoint is its ability to provide the lowest RPO."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"Dell RecoverPoint offers cost savings in the long term."

"The image backup feature is great. For example, if you set the journal to take a backup every ten minutes, it will create a snapshot or pointer every ten minutes for as long as you need."

"When it works, it is the best product that is available."

"The solution provides continuous data protection."

"The most valuable features include the ease of defining contingency groups and the drag-and-drop functionality, which speeds up our application processes."

"The setups that we have in place are great."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"The new Gen5 appliances have adopted the Unisphere management interface and it is written for Adobe Flash, which in my experience, is very slow and makes administration cumbersome at times."

"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."

"The initial setup is complex."

"RecoverPoint journals consume a lot of storage to obtain a large RPO."

"Dell RecoverPoint is considered an older technology and is not recommended for new deployments by Dell EMC. It requires double the storage capacity for source and target storage areas, which creates a heavy burden on storage resources."

"Scalability is one of the few drawbacks of this thing. They're still using Flash Player to manage, and now it is extremely slow."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"The support is horrible."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"The price is moderate."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"It is considered quite costly."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."

"The product is fairly priced."