We performed a comparison between IBM Disaster Recovery Services and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"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."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
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IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Azure Site Recovery, Precisely Assure MIMIX and Sungard Disaster Recovery Services, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery.
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