"When you're looking at your dashboard, you can see all your active jobs. You can see exactly if they're successful or failed and you can actually drill down and see what caused the problem. The fact you can see that right away is nice."
"You can restore all your data or partial parts of it. You can restore a specific version of the data. It has a lot of options for restore, so you can have the correct data that you want to restore. This is very important. You must know what you are going to restore. Otherwise, you may be overwriting correct data with other data. You must know what specific files you are restoring as well as which version. Partial restore is very important because there might be some files which are newer than the backup and some files that are corrupted. You need to restore some files from the backup, but not all the files."
"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."
"Because all our servers are hosted on VMware, the VMware backup is the most valuable feature. The integration and backup with VMware are very good."
"It made it easy for us to handle the daily backup of endpoints."
"The ability to map a drive and restore a separate file is most valuable. The restoration activity is good."
"Its ease of use and price are most valuable. It is simple and straightforward. Someone who has never used any backup software will easily understand it from the first installation. It is that simple. Price-wise, it is much cheaper than its counterparts."
"The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"What I would love to see on the dashboard are graphs, per backup job. I want to see the month and the days in it... If a job has failed, when did it actually fail and what percentage of it failed? Did it fail completely, 75 percent or 100 percent or did it only fail partially?"
"The reports are at a basic level and there is room for improvement there. It only has historical reports and VM backup job-level reports."
"It would be a great improvement if they can give a console to control the systems. All other vendors let you simply log in to the cloud console and control everything from there, but for Vembu, whether you choose Vembu Cloud Backup or Vembu Disaster Recovery, you still need to install the Vembu software on your on-premise system and configure it from there. It would be great if I can get a cloud console to manage the systems."
"We do a lot of internal automation, so the Vembu API definitely has some gaps. The Vembu API could definitely use some improvement. We do rely a lot on automation outside of just the regular interface. We've noticed that the Vembu GUI is good, but we do leverage the APIs for a lot of stuff, and there's definitely some room for improvement there."
"Maybe they can add some features regarding working with the vCenter cluster to be able to have more power over the cluster overall, not just over a single or specific host. Also, I would like some enhancements in technology for the web interface, e.g., some interactive technologies to advance the interface of Vembu. Although the current interface is very good, maybe they can use more advanced technologies for its web development."
"There are some limitation in Vembu that can be improved. When you take the backup from any server, the full incremental backup is limited. For example, if you run a weekly full backup and monthly backup, they cannot be run at the same time. I should not have to create a new job, but in this scenario, I am creating two jobs. The limitation is created because if I select monthly backup, then I cannot select weekly backup."
"I have had issues with new client registrations. There are frequent connectivity issues to the cloud servers. Multiple times, I have had to prove to support that it wasn’t a problem on my end. It always works out in the end, but it is troubling to have the same issues repeated across different clients. Issues eventually get escalated to the cloud team and are mysteriously resolved with no changes on my end."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
Vembu BDR Suite is ranked 7th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 13 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 8th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 16 reviews. Vembu BDR Suite is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Vembu BDR Suite writes "Its ease of use and price set it apart from other solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Good replication and integration capabilities with a straightforward setup". Vembu BDR Suite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Zerto and MSP360 Backup, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery. See our VMware SRM vs. Vembu BDR Suite report.
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