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

"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 setups that we have in place are great."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well, with continuous data replication and almost no data loss."

"The tool's most valuable feature is stability."

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

"Customer Service: Very good, EMC did support us to implement it well and gave useful instructions and lessons to help to maintain it well."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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 for this product was top notch."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The support is horrible."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."

"RecoverPoint is designed to integrate seamlessly with Dell EMC storage. If you don't have Dell EMC storage, you can't use it with other brands like IBM or HP."

"I am waiting for block replication with VirtualBox."

"Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level."

"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."

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

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

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

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

"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)."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"It is considered quite costly."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"The price is moderate."

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

"The product is fairly priced."