VMware SRM Reviews

The recovery plans and customization options. I also the love the re-protect feature for easier fallback.

We were able to migrate 100 virtual servers to our St. Louis office with very little downtime.

I would like to see the database come built-in to the product. I would also prefer to the SRM server come as a virtual appliance instead of a windows vm. I would also like to see a way to control bandwidth usage.

3 years.

No, the process is very well documented.

No, but you need to have a good understanding of your bandwidth between sites. SRM does not have a native way to throttle bandwidth usage.

No.

Excellent.

Excellent.

We looked at various types of solutions like Veeam, DoubleTake and Neverfail.

It was very straightforward.

In-house.

We were able to reduce the cost of our overall DR infrastructure while increase our recovery time. We are seeing a 25% return.

Yes, Veeam, Neverfail and DoubleTake.

Take the time to understand your change rate of your servers, your bandwidth capabilities and the recovery objects for your DR plan.

The automatic activation of the storage volumes and bringing up all VM’s. The recovery plans and resource mapping are good features.

With the resource mapping we can use different networks to bring up our VM’s

We can easily create a test environment with the SRM testing functionality, also in combination with EMC recoverpoint we can start up a virtual machine to a given point in time.

Automatic guest customizations through a GUI is a missing feature. Also the new version of SRM is web-only and is not that stable as the old client version.

We had couple of times that the web interface crashed and needed to restart the services.

7 years.

No issues encountered.

No, but the new web client is sometime ‘buggy.'

No issues encountered.

We needed to use customer service a couple of times while upgrading versions but all went fine.

8/10

No previous solution used.

It wasn't complex.

We used a vendor team and their expertise was good.

This product makes it easy for us to have a managed DR. Also the point in time functionality to bring up vm’s is a cost-saving method for us during the upgrade / testing period.

No other options evaluated.

Read and follow the admin guide, otherwise when you miss a step you can search long time. Also use the correct storage adapter of your storage vendor.

VMware SRM is used for disaster recovery automation.

VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments.

The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated.

I have been using VMware SRM for approximately 10 years.

The solution is stable.

VMware SRM is scalable.

We have approximately 25 people using this solution in my company.

The support could be improved, they are slow.

The installation is of a moderate difficulty level. The time it takes to implement depends on what vendor you are integrating it with, such as HP. The typical duration of implementation including the configuration is approximately five days.

We have one engineer for the maintenance and support of VMware SRM.

There is an annual license to use this solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate VMware SRM an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is for testing. 

The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy, it doesn't require a lot of resources or a SAN team to enable testing, a single person can do it and get results. 

Unfortunately, SRM is not stable and it therefore requires continuous monitoring. If there are any issues associated with the Center, SRM doesn't work well and as a result, it generates a lot of tickets and productivity drops. 

I've been using this solution for five years.

Although this solution is a good tool, it lacks stability. We have five users in our team. 

The overall advantage of VMware is its scalability. But when it comes to SRM, scalability is not really relevant. It's only relevant in terms of the DR solution because SRM is a component of VMware, which requires vCenter. 

The technical support is quite good. 

Setup of SRM required the architectural team. The SAN team plays a very important role here because there's not enough stability. The DR test can fail because of the associated orchestration issues with regard to the SAN.

I've never used Zerto, but from my training and my personal analysis, I think it's better than SRM. 

I rate this product six out of 10. 

It’s expensive, and we also use Zerto, but good for disaster recovery testing.

Business continuity and disaster recovery, although it’s not fully storage agnostic like Zerto, and we’ve moved away a bit because we use other services for our clients.

I haven’t yet checked out latest version because we’ve been moving away from it, stuck using it for replication clients and it doesn’t work with all storage vendors. There are issues with versioning.

It works great, and does what it’s supposed to. Easy to do disaster revovery test without affecting production.

It's easy to scale, just limited to storage vendors.

Never needed it.

It’s a little complex. Just follow the instructions, but it’s not too complicated once you get connectivity, and it requires multiple vCenters, so that can make it more costly.

Zerto may be more cost efficient, so I’m not 100% sold, and may not need it at all.

It gives us a disaster recovery solution for different sites.

It looks good, but synchronization is, sometimes, a problem. Hence it should be totally dependent on storage.

I've used it for three years.

We faced issues as it is highly dependent on the platform in use.

It's very good.

It was complex as it does not include a good, extensive feasibility and compatibility guide.

We used a vendor team who were very good.

It is quite good on ROI and year on year it is about 50%.

vCloud SRM is a good solution, but it is costly when compared to other solutions like Nutanix.

We didn't evaluate other solutions.

Choosing VMware in general, is best in terms of functionality, but it is not necessarily cost effective, as their licensing and setup costs are too hight. Maybe we will see more products for cloud and automation.

Cost

We have had some customers that were hit with some random wear and we were able to restore the files from SRM with minimal downtime.

Nothing I have run into as of yet.

About 8 months.

It was deployed prior to my arrival with the company.

None encountered.

None encountered.

We use several solutions. We determine what is best for the customer and present them with the solutions we believe fit their needs best.

Do an analysis of what you need. Weigh the pros and cons of each solution and use what is going to work best for you.

Ability to support DR.

We have a fully functioning DR environment.

The setup documentation needs to be improved greatly.

Only the fact that I had scour the Internet to find the proper setup information.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Average.

Well the tech I spoke to did not know how the setup should be implemented, until I found the literature myself.

Did not use a previous solution.

Complex - settings for the sql db were not documented - had to search a lot for those.

I implemented the product.

Very good - we have a DR platform that we've tested with a live production workflow.

No others were evaluated.

Gather the proper setup information.