We performed a comparison between Dell RecoverPoint, Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL], and NetApp SnapMirror based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."We use RecoverPoint for disaster recovery and asynchronous replication, and we use the application at a block level, not the software level. This has been tested, and it's very durable."
"The solution provides continuous data protection."
"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."
"When it works, it is the best product that is available."
"The solution is now Flash-based, which is better. they moved away from Java."
"RecoverPoint's most valuable feature is the automatic failover."
"It has improved RTO and RPO."
"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."
"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."
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"The performance and stability are valuable features. It seems to fulfill all the requirements."
"Overall, the product is very good. It's an easy to use tool."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The user interface is very easy to manage. The replication is also very easy to set up."
"There are a lot of features that are excellent. The data compression during the transfer, for example, is good. The replication is great. The durability of the solution and the speed of the data moving from one site to another is impressive."
"The technology enables us to have a safe backup."
"NetApp SnapMirror's ease of use and reliability are valuable features."
"Data protection is a valuable feature."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."
"Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution."
"When it comes to storage and backup, that is where scalability problems have affected us."
"The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market."
"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."
"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."
"The product should provide integration with new products."
"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."
"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."
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"At the moment, we are not using the synchronous mirror, but we can implement the synchronous mirror. The only thing is that it needs another license. This is the same issue we have with business continuity. It needs another license to be implemented. You need too many separate licenses for the features. They should add some of the aspects of the premium bundle into the basic bundle. Sometimes our customers choose other replication services because of the initial cost of the licenses."
"The user interface could be simplified. They might want to have fewer options on it, to make it less complicated. There are a lot of options we never use ourselves. They're often very specialized and don't apply to us."
"Compression and deduplication could be improved."
"There is probably some limitations when it comes to the scalability of the solution."
"If they can make the application free like other vendors or include it in all the packages, it would be great."
"We have to do manual verifications about the subscriptions often."
"We have different families of storage, such as the E-Series and Flash systems, but NetApp cannot be set up between them."
"In the next release, I would like to get an active IP number solution."
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