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Nutanix Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Nutanix Disaster Recovery and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
Celso Toledo
A reliable and scalable solution that can be used to ensure workloads are replicated when needed
A couple of years back, our data center was located in Fort Lauderdale, known as Hurricane Alley. We would swing our workloads or production data... Read more →
Wladimir Furtado
Reliable with good disaster recovery and a generally good design
Thanks to SRM, we haven't had any kind of disaster in our environment.
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Pros
"The product is very simple and very easy to use.""The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the reliability and scalability of being able to swing our workloads across the country.""Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks.""Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery."

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"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations.""The solution is simple to use and has effective automation.""Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options.""It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation.""Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes.""This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center.""The solution is scalable.""I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."

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Cons
"The solution should include a standard license for the object level and file level.""The product must allow users to create a production domain on the main site in one hypervisor and a backup site on another.""The solution's bandwidth utilization can be improved further.""Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."

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"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly.""There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution.""The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated.""There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable.""The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment.""VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles.""The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve.""In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution’s pricing is good."
  • "Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

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  • "Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
  • "Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
  • "The price of this solution is on the expensive side."
  • "The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
  • "The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
  • "The licensing costs are increasing."
  • "It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."
  • "There is an annual license to use this solution."

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    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 recovery sites, but many of the disaster recovery tools today still function at the storage layer. Legacy technologies like storage array snapshots, and LUN based replication restrict the configuration options of upstream technologies like VMware Storage DRS. If you wanted to replicate a virtual machine you had to replicate the entire LUN is resided on. You weren’t free to leverage Storage DRS for its automated performance balancing features because a VM could be migrated from one LUN mucking up your storage based replication. Fortunately over the past few years there’s been great advancement in hypervisor based replication technologies. There’s a wealth of competing products vying for customer attention. As always competition drives innovation and value for the consumer. This will be the first of a 4 part blog series that looks at various hypervisor based disaster recovery products. Note this isn’t a review of backup products which is a separate category, we are looking at products specifically designed to assist companies in a disaster scenario. Before talking about products; however, we should understand their underlying architectures, and how it relates to their… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer:Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery.
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    What needs improvement with Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer:The solution should include a standard license for the object level and file level.
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    What is your primary use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer:Nutanix Disaster Recovery is mainly used for the physical to virtual integration.
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    What do you like most about VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution is consistent.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:I rate the product price a five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a very high price, and ten is a very low price.
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    What needs improvement with VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors.
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    Ranking
    14th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    109
    Comparisons
    84
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    345
    Rating
    9.3
    6th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    8,245
    Comparisons
    6,440
    Reviews
    26
    Average Words per Review
    397
    Rating
    8.2
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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    Overview

    Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a natively integrated DR solution that helps organizations stay prepared in the face of a disaster while minimizing data loss and downtime.

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that is part of the vSphere virtualization suite. It helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. VMware SRM aims to minimize data loss and system downtime by letting you automate backups and orchestrate the recovery of entire VMware storage systems. VMware SRM is offered on-premises and on the AWS cloud.

    VMware SRM is most commonly used for:

    • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster avoidance
    • Data center migrations
    • Site-level load balancing
    • Maintenance testing for enterprise applications

    As a disaster recovery tool, VMware SRM:

    • Provides replication technology.
    • Supports policy-based management of backup programs.
    • Lets you run non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.

    VMware SRM Key Features

    Some of VMware SRM’s key features include:
    Good scalability and stability, fast and reliable recovery, automated orchestration workflows, automated recovery of network and security settings, non-disruptive recovery testing, orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion, stretched storage support, and self-service provisioning.

    VMware SRM Benefits

    The main benefits of using VMware SRM include:

    • Integration: VMware SRM integrates with other VMware technologies and architectures.

    • Non-disruptive testing: VMware SRM allows you to conduct tests during business hours without disruptions.

    • Reduced recovery time: By using automated orchestration workflows, VMware SRM helps to decrease recovery time to just minutes.

    • Automated failback: With automated failback, you can resume business operations as normal very quickly.

    • Extensibility for custom automation: With VMware SRM, you can use the Orchestrator plug-in to build custom automation workflows.

    • Automated network mappings: You can automatically map network settings across the two sites when creating a recovery plan.

    • Eliminate the need to re-configure IP addresses: With VMware SRM’s automated recovery of network and security settings, it is not necessary to e-configure IP addresses on recovered VMs via integration with NSX. Configurations are also reduced post-recovery by implementing security policies.

    • Centralized recovery plans: VMware SRM’s centralized recovery plans help you protect thousands of VM’s and also make it possible to eliminate manual runbooks.

    • Protect investments: With supported replication, VMware SRM helps protect investments and tailor RPOs.

    • Lower TCO: By using VMware SRM, you can lower your TCO and incur lower expenses for disaster recovery.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are reviews from PeerSpot users who are currently using the solution:

    PeerSpot user Eslam E., Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr, explains his experience using the solution and says that "VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."

    A founder at a comms service provider commented on the solution's efficiency, noting, "If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."

    Reviewer Rakesh-P., who is a consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd., mentions why he finds VMware SRM to be a good product, commenting that “The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing. The reports are very good.”

    Ahmed F., a consultant at Daniyals Inc, says that the solution doesn’t require a lot of resources and that "The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

    Sample Customers
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    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Nutanix Disaster Recovery is ranked 14th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 4 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Nutanix Disaster Recovery is rated 9.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Disaster Recovery writes "A reliable and scalable solution that can be used to ensure workloads are replicated when needed". 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". Nutanix Disaster Recovery is most compared with Zerto, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Azure Site Recovery. See our Nutanix Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.

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