VMware SRM Reviews

Name: VMware SRM
Brand: VMware
Rating: 4 (21 reviews)

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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.

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Naunton Cheesman

Senior Consultant at Cloudstratex

Sep 6, 2023

Before VMware SRM, we were using Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Replication Manager for stand-alone. When we went to virtualize, we moved to SRM. I did a lot of work with IBM PowerVM and it had some nice features. It had things such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles where you could put one VM across another so that it grabbed the resources. You could do things such as have thin DR VMs without much allocation of CPU or memory, and then as you boot them, they start to grab all of that automatically from all of the non-prod. Functions like that were quite good in Power VM, which aren't quite as present in the VMware world. PowerVM is extremely expensive to use and that's why everyone is shifting towards commodity computers.

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Wladimir Furtado

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

Aug 1, 2022

What is our primary use case 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. How has it helped my organization? Thanks to SRM, we haven't had any kind of disaster in our environment. What is most…

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DineshKumar21

Solution Architect at Rackspace Technology

Aug 2, 2023

The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment. It is not the tool but the process that is complex. The tasks associated with using the tool in an environment for disaster recovery are complex. The product's deployment process takes around three to four weeks to complete. For the deployment process, you need to assess your environment before getting into the design phase, after which you need to understand the business objectives and goals clearly to design your target environment. Once your environment is ready, then you need to understand the steps you need to follow to configure VMware SRM to achieve your target state. I would say assessment followed by defining a clear business objective, and then after design, you have to build the environment. There is a need for an architect to take care of the design part of the solution, along with a couple of engineers and a dedicated project manager to run the product during the deployment phase. There is a need for at least two engineers to run the product.

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Pricing

"Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
"The price of this solution is on the expensive side."

Valuable Features

"Testing failover capabilities."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."

Room For Improvement

"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"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"
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."

Pricing

"Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
"The price of this solution is on the expensive side."

Valuable Features

"Testing failover capabilities."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."

Room For Improvement

"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"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"
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."

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Learn more about VMware SRM

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."

VMware SRM was previously known as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

VMware SRM is the #6 ranked solution in top Disaster Recovery Software. PeerSpot users give VMware SRM an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. VMware SRM is most commonly compared to Veeam Backup & Replication: VMware SRM vs Veeam Backup & Replication. VMware SRM is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.