We performed a comparison between BDRSuite 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."We only use BDRSuite to back up two VMs in our current environment. It helps us with maintenance, monitoring, etc. We are satisfied with BDRSuite so far and plan to add a few more VMs in the future, including Citrix VMs and XenServer."
"The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."
"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."
"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."
"The scalability is good. It can scale. Adding a new server to a foreign location is easy."
"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."
"We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The solution is very flexible."
"For the more sophisticated backups that do not have a set backup process, procedures that are outside of the norm, it would be nice if we had more control and did not have to use their technical support. While they're very responsive and have always come through in a reasonable time frame, we would like to be able to manage everything on our own."
"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."
"They had a good product and tried to change things by going to a different product. They should have tried to stay with a product that is a proven solution and successful."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"The support is a bit slow in resolving an issue. It takes a long time to recover."
"The system died twice and it was apparently the result of corrupted disk sectors. I tried to work with tech support to fix it, but they essentially gave up. So twice, I had to rebuild our server."
"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
BDRSuite is ranked 7th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 62 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". 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". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our BDRSuite vs. VMware SRM report.
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