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VMware Live Recovery Primary Use Case

Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

We use VMware Live Recovery for creating new hosts and new servers. We synchronize all of our software from our data center to our co-location in real time, so when a disaster happens, we switch to the co-location.

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ErmiasGirma - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Cloud Deployment Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

In our organization, we have deployed VMware Live Recovery for disaster recovery purposes. We have two data centers, and VMware Live Recovery is used for data replication between these centers. It is used to ensure data availability and for migration purposes when the primary data center is down.

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Sven Nimmich - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Lenovo

In my total career spanning 20 years, I've focused on business continuity, specifically in disaster recovery.

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GaurangPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Allot Group

Our company's clients use VMware SRM for disaster recovery. 

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SivaKuppala - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited

As a managed service provider with VMware, we offer virtual desktops to our customers. We support around 80+ customers, some use VMware, some use Hyper-V... it varies. In total, we support around one million virtual desktops. 

My role as an enterprise architect is to provide solutions to these diverse customers.

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Amardeep-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal - Solution Engineering at Tata Communications Ltd

I have mostly worked with VMware SRM, which is a solution tightly integrated with the product.

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Shrikumar Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant / Architect at Ernst & Young

My clients use the product for disaster recovery planning. 

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Samuel Katwesigye - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at NSSF

We typically use it for disaster recovery testing. It automates the process of failing over from a protected site to a recovery site, helping us achieve our RTO (Recovery Time Objective).

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Andy-Scannell - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Manager at Kyndryl

In my area of expertise, which is resiliency, I primarily use VMware SRM for disaster recovery use cases. I also use it for backup and data loss prevention use cases, making it easier to manage and safeguard critical data within virtualized environments.

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DineshKumar21 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Rackspace Technology

In my company, we use VMware SRM for its disaster recovery capabilities. It is a tool for automating and orchestrating the disaster recovery of our company's IT environment.

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Naunton Cheesman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Cloudstratex

We use SRM to invoke DR and to move workloads across the DR side.

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Wladimir Furtado - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor on IT Governance and Projects / Advisor on IT Governance and Projects at Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Ceará (TCE-CE)

In this scenario of disaster recovery, we start simply with our VMs. We have just two packs of 25 VMs. We just protect just about 15 VMs.

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Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at TMLI

We use this solution to run our applications and our server functions.

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reviewer985575 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

VMware SRM is deployed with some clusters. However, if the customer uses a three-tier architecture or other configurations, SRM might not be applicable. The expectation is not always to achieve 100% coverage. SRM is used for virtual machines with stringent SLAs or critical business applications. SRM is often sold in packs of 25 virtual machines, and deployment and functionality testing are conducted based on customer needs.

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Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

We use VMware SRM for disaster recovery.

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Branko Cirovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Comtrade Group

Our initial deployment of VMware's Site Recovery Manager in conjunction with PostgreSQL for automotive sales, and also involved integrating SRM with HP's triple storage systems. It leverages background storage replication to ensure stable and reliable business continuity.

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JA
Technical Services Manager at eBiZolution

The primary use case is for disaster recovery. We use the solution for two different sites, as well as our virtual machine backup. In a situation where one of our data centers goes down, our servers can go up on the other site.

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TH
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.

It was working very well with VMware since it's a VMware product. We didn't have any issues. It was quite smooth when doing drills, when we were trying to recover VMs from other sites.

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Asheesh Asthana - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Product Manager at Cisco

I mainly use VMware SRM for automation, creation of VMs, and monitoring.

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ESLAM ELSAYAAD - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr

We are using this solution to serve our customers in different sectors.

We are using VMware SRM as a disaster recovery solution for our customers. We are working with vSphere, vSAN, and other infrastructure VMware solutions. VMware SRM is completing the solution.

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SM
Manager at SSMS

We used VMware SRM mainly for the DC-DR configuration.

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reviewer1687299 - PeerSpot reviewer
private cloud team at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I use the solution for disaster recovery.

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reviewer1401531 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for VMware SRM is automatization.

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Nipuna Nakandala - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Manager (Virtual Infrastructure) at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use SRM to replicate our important servers to our VR site. We are customers of VMware and I'm a junior manager. 

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Bunmi Sadiq - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Syscodes Communications Ltd

We use the solution primarily for off-site disaster recovery. A site act as the headquarters, and there is also DR site. This means that we move application data from primary to secondary sites for storage level replication purposes. We also back up our virtual machines and their applications to the DR site. Essentially, we do disaster recovery from the primary site to the DR sites.

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

We have implemented SRM to replicate around the 800 virtual machines to the data recovery files. Due to the fact that we implemented to data centers as well as the primary and secondary data center, we use SRM to replicate around most of the virtual machines in order to be the secondary site.

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reviewer1271802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

VMware SRM is used for our disaster recovery site, which is an on-premises colo (Colocation) facility. The general use case is for disaster recovery for three of our applications those being imaging, payroll, and real estate.  

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Amila Abeysinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at ARC ONE (PVT) LTD

In my company, we use VMware SRM for virtual machine replication.

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SP
Customer Success Engineer at Digital Network Solution (DNS)

In my company, we use VMware SRM for synchronous replication.

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reviewer2126610 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Team Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for migrating our DR site.

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Kunle Oyetola - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business at Zeta-Web Nigeria Limited

We use it for disaster recovery.

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reviewer1656048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Manager at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use SRM for our failover strategy. It is for disaster recovery on failover.

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AF
Consultant at Daniyals Inc

I use VMware SRM for DR testing and VR.

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reviewer1619832 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BCDR Professional at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are consultants in disaster recovery software. We implement VMware products for our clients.

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TS
Director Of Service Delivery at Kinetic IT

We vetted out that data center a number of years ago. We were told SRM would improve our footprint within the data center and that was attractive to us at the time so we went with it.  

We are using VMware SRM but we are also currently looking into alternatives that could replicate the benefits that SRM currently provides for our on-premises installation. Once we are in the cloud, we are looking at whether or not we need dual availability zones. We also are looking at what functionality we could get from not having to change RPs (Recovery Point) as we do now with SRM.  

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DH
Senior Systems Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

VMware is being used for disaster recovery to protect two sites.

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MB
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We are in technology and services but we also do enterprise architecture and strategic planning. We always work on the customer side, but we work very closely together with key partners and key vendors in the industry. This includes VMware, but other vendors as well. We realize solutions on the customer's behalf and we are also always solution-oriented and committed to delivering what the client needs. That is why we work intensively and closely with vendors like VMware.  

With VMware SRM, we had a technical account manager before coming on with them and level three support all on standby just in case we were to encounter issues. We just happened to encounter a lot of issues.  

We integrated the product at the same time partly because of discovery and partly because we want to stay vendor agnostic. We work with whatever the client has if it is a viable product. One might be using Hyper-V and another one might be using KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) or Xen Project or AHV (Acropolis HyperVisor). We treat them equally to do what they need and also work with other parties, like Red Hat or Nutanix or whatever other solutions are necessary. Of course, we take our experiences from every client and every project with us on to the next opportunity.  

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ChukwuemekaOnyemelukwe - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Administrator - Server, Storage & Virtualization at MicroAccess Ltd

Our primary use is for our client. It's a system integrator frame. I have clients for whom we manage their data centers. Or, we do their integration and implementation. Basically, we use it to replicate their virtual machines, their user site, and their company site, and maybe to configure it and schedule their recovery. We use it for doing recovery tests from time to time, quarterly or yearly, for some of our clients. To test for a situation whereby a danger or a disaster could be affecting their data that is being replicated. This is good to do. Periodically, we run those tests and recover those virtual machines, and they try to work from their recovery sites to ascertain that everything is okay.

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reviewer1796370 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have three different VMs. During long business hours, we can shift from PR to DR. It has high availability.

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reviewer1126809 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

SRM is implemented as part of VMware.

We use it for failover between geographical locations from one location to another location. Sometimes for maintenance purposes, we can failover services to another location so that we can maintain the technology at another location.

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MS
VMware Technician Manager at VAS

VMware SRM is used for disaster recovery automation.

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AF
Consultant at Daniyals Inc

Our primary use case of this solution is for testing. 

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MK
Consultant-Instructor at Flexdata

We are a system integrator in Morocco and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. Our customers use VMware SRM to replicate sites for the purpose of disaster recovery. SRM is a recovery manager and we combine it with NetApp to provide recovery solutions.

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RP
Consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd.

We use this product primarily for our DR drills, which you can do quietly during office hours. Sometimes we use it for site migrations or planned outages.

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reviewer1261665 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case is for the end-users. I work as a VMware software engineer and we have about 50 people using the solution. 

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SoheylNorozi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This disaster recovery solution helps our clients with their mission-critical projects. They are able to maintain business continuity and increase the reliability of their services.

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MA
SAN and UNIX Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery.

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PS
Project Manager at Shriram Value Services

VMware failover is our primary use case of DC DR automation. We are integrated with array-based replication.

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it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We use it, I and several of my colleagues, as a data recovery solution between VMware environments. It is a complementary solution to EMC solutions, for storage. 

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reviewer832053 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Trying to analyze the feature and functionality of this combined product. SRM is current been used in the production. However, with new DR requirement, we are look for other solutions.

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YA
Senior advisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for DR.

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reviewer1693599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unified Communications Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery as a disaster recovery service and backup as a service.

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MA
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are not an end-user. We are a solutions provider to companies.

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

We use the product to implement discovery for server and database solutions.

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JR
Solution Architect at LODES Consultores

The primary use for us is to replicate without automatization.

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VMware Live Recovery
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about VMware Live Recovery. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
860,632 professionals have used our research since 2012.