The implementation of VMware SRM helps with the overall business resiliency perspective. We are still using the virtualization layer for the application, which becomes closely integrated with the solution provided. So, that's a benefit to any organization. Moreover, the solution gives you a single dashboard through which you can look at everything. Overall, I rate the solution a seven to eight out of ten.
Our clients are enterprise customers. I would recommend the products to others. Its scalability, its stability, syncing capabilities, and security features make it valuable. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Our company's customers use VMware SRM for disaster recovery across varying sites. VMware SRM maintains a connection between two different sites, if one site goes down there remains another site in our company as a backup to manage the load of different production applications. VMware SRM is considered an automation tool that helps customers migrate or restart the virtual machines at the recovery site. The tool allows our company to customize disaster recovery plans according to business requirements. As per the precedence of virtual machines, the solution is restarted at the disaster recovery site. VMware SRM is a highly comprehensive tool, which is why customers often choose it. The non-disruptive testing feature is a mature technology in the solution which is also found in competitor tools in the market. The replication and failover capabilities are quite easy to set up and use. This feature has a straightforward configuration that doesn't require expertise. Any professional with knowledge of virtualization and replication technology will be able to effortlessly manage the workflows that need to be configured. At our company, when we replicate the virtual machine on a distant site, the data is expected to be consistent. If data consistency is not maintained, then problems arise irrespective of the replication technology, whether we use SAN to SAN or other types of data applications. The data consistency of VMware SRM depends upon the environment and connectivity between the two sites. I would overall rate VMware SRM a ten out of ten. For VMware environments, VMware SRM is considered a necessary product to deploy. Before purchasing VMware SRM, I would advise others to build a disaster recovery plan with RPO and RTO involvement. When we recommend VMware SRM to the clients of our organization, they seem worried at first about the LTO and percentage of data loss in case of disaster. VMware SRM offers five to fifteen minutes of RTO, which can be concerning for customers on some occasions, especially if the customer belongs to BFSI, e-commerce, or any digital, commercial business category.
Senior advisor at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 14, 2023
We have a cloud environment that requires disaster recovery capabilities. We utilize HZX to extend layer two connectivity and leverage Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for replication. I recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Information Technology Specialist at ARC ONE (PVT) LTD
Real User
Oct 16, 2023
For first-time users, VMware SRM can be a very difficult tool to use, especially considering the product's configuration part. The configuration is very difficult. With VMware SRM, you have to download the separate appliance and think about Windows to build a separate native appliance while also having knowledge about ESXi, making it a difficult process. When it comes to VMware SRM, the technical things are very difficult to start in the first place. I rate the overall tool a five out of ten.
I would advise new users to start off with manual processes and document exactly what they want to come up with in the right order. Get your IT continuity plan defined very closely and with a great amount of detail. Then start to automate with your SRM tooling to make sure that things are brought up in the right order and ensure that if one service fails and you need to bring another one across for latency purposes, you really understand all of those requirements before you start to just implement SRM and marching on without really understanding how the services tie together and the dependencies between them. Overall, I would rate SRM an eight out of ten.
I recommend those wanting to use the solution completely understand their own environment since VMware SRM is meant for VMware environment only. You cannot integrate VMware SRM with other non-VMware products. If your requirements are very much restricted to VMware alone, then VMware SRM can be a good choice for managing activities related to disaster recovery. If you have a mixed environment, you need to think and look for other products in the market other than VMware SRM. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Director - Cyber Resilience at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Apr 20, 2023
l always recommend others to have a POC in place. It's always about whether a solution suits your environment or not. So if it does, then go for it. If it doesn't, one should go for another solution. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
I give the solution a nine out of ten. The deployment and maintenance can be done by one engineer. I am the consultant solution architect, and sometimes I am the deployment engineer. I seldom ask for support from VMware because most of the problems are caused by bugs, which we can usually fix ourselves by consulting the knowledge base on the VMware website. However, there are times when the problem is at the hardware level and VMware is not at fault - for example when there is a bug in the VMware version used by the hardware vendor. In these cases, we need to ask for support from the hardware vendor. VMware SRM is a great solution. I always recommend the solution because it is a native replication solution for VMware. Although there are other solutions such as Zerto, they may deliver a lower RPO in certain cases. I believe Zerto is a better solution than VMware SRM, but when it comes to functionality, and for regular customers, VMware SRM is enough.
I would advise organizations who wish to use this solution, to ensure that their threat protection software is in place and up to date, as there isn't any threat protection embedded in this product. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Advisor on IT Governance and Projects / Advisor on IT Governance and Projects at Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Ceará (TCE-CE)
Real User
Aug 1, 2022
We are just a customer. I'm not sure which version of the product we're using. However, we are updating right now, in the next month. Right now, our environment is on-prem. We want to install the hyper-converged to start moving to the cloud. I'd advise others to maintain the solution and keep it up to date. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I would advise others looking into implementing VMware SRM not to totally be dependent upon it. Review other solutions, such as Veritas regulatory platform and Zerto. There are newer VM DR options coming out regularly and they should not have only one solution. I rate VMware SRM a six out of ten.
We are using two product versions. We are using product versions 6.0 and 6.5. We need to use only on-premises deployment models. This due to the fact that there are sanctions in my country. We cannot use the cloud services directly as there is no support. For customers who are using VMware infrastructure, I recommend using VMware SRM due to the fact that it has the ability to integrate with other products like HP, SRA, or even CSRA. It has good features that integrate well with a storage concept. Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
Operations Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Sep 29, 2020
From what I have seen, a lot of these new hyper-converged systems come with certain components that do a lot of what SRM does. My opinion and advice to people considering SRM would be to look to your hardware vendor or consultant. They may have some replication pieces in there that allow you to possibly not use SRM or go ahead and stay with what you already have. Depending on your situation, different combinations might prove more beneficial either within the architecture or by cost-benefit. There are a lot of options out there now for disc replication and bringing machines up at other locations. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate the SRM as about an eight-out-of-ten.
I personally will not continue using the VMware SRM solution. That is not a question of what is best. Our position moving forward is that we will not be having a footprint in the VMware space. If someone had the ability to focus on lots of things with using VMware in the cloud then there no issues at all with the product and this is a good solution for that purpose. The product functionality is fairly high-quality. Our decision is more based around the direction that we are taking. We will be cloud-based and we will be using AWS predominantly as our cloud-provider solution. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate this solution overall as an eight-out-of-ten. It would not be closer to a ten because there is still some work that we need to carry out with regular maintenance and then there are the increasing license costs. An eight seems about right.
Senior Systems Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Real User
Aug 23, 2020
In summary, this is a mature product that works very well. It is easy to set up. I like the fact that it has a bubble test feature that allows you to test your configurations without actually failing over. However SRM is very pricy. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
In the past, with version 6.0, there were two versions of SRM. There was a version for Windows as well as an appliance. However, all of our customers are now moving to the appliance. I recommend using this product because it integrates well with replication technology from any vendor using the SRA. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jan 27, 2020
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate VMware SRM as about a five. I am not open to giving a positive recommendation as the product stands. It is a little generous to give it a five considering all the issues. This review focuses a lot on the weaknesses of the product. But we were actually able to use the solution to get quite a lot of server images successfully, especially if the servers were relatively small, like a parasitic thermal server or an ordinary file server. That type of project went fine. So, if your use case is entry-level, beginning, and maybe intermediate, I think you will be fine using the product. But even if you do not have a lot of complexity and you try to work with this in a really big enterprise and a multi-region, multi-datacenter environment, you will have a lot of challenges ahead for sure. We have used it as a migration tool in support of a big transformation. I would think twice before using it for continuity on a permanent basis. I might think three times before more enhancements to the product are made successfully to enhance the utility.
My advice to people considering this solution is that they should just go ahead and get it. I think that is the best virtualization solution out there. Some people say Nutanix is better. I think VMware is the best. I would also advise making sure your virtual environment is well taken care of. I don't think there are any other challenges that you're going to have. It's necessary that when you see it side by side, to have an operations manager help you find problematic areas and possible issues you are going to encounter in the future. On a scale of 1 - 10, I give it a 9.
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Feb 1, 2018
Before choosing a cheaper solution, I would advise checking the limitations or boundaries of each solution. Compare VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V and other solutions - maybe open-source - and then see which fits your needs best.
VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides...
The implementation of VMware SRM helps with the overall business resiliency perspective. We are still using the virtualization layer for the application, which becomes closely integrated with the solution provided. So, that's a benefit to any organization. Moreover, the solution gives you a single dashboard through which you can look at everything. Overall, I rate the solution a seven to eight out of ten.
Our clients are enterprise customers. I would recommend the products to others. Its scalability, its stability, syncing capabilities, and security features make it valuable. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Our company's customers use VMware SRM for disaster recovery across varying sites. VMware SRM maintains a connection between two different sites, if one site goes down there remains another site in our company as a backup to manage the load of different production applications. VMware SRM is considered an automation tool that helps customers migrate or restart the virtual machines at the recovery site. The tool allows our company to customize disaster recovery plans according to business requirements. As per the precedence of virtual machines, the solution is restarted at the disaster recovery site. VMware SRM is a highly comprehensive tool, which is why customers often choose it. The non-disruptive testing feature is a mature technology in the solution which is also found in competitor tools in the market. The replication and failover capabilities are quite easy to set up and use. This feature has a straightforward configuration that doesn't require expertise. Any professional with knowledge of virtualization and replication technology will be able to effortlessly manage the workflows that need to be configured. At our company, when we replicate the virtual machine on a distant site, the data is expected to be consistent. If data consistency is not maintained, then problems arise irrespective of the replication technology, whether we use SAN to SAN or other types of data applications. The data consistency of VMware SRM depends upon the environment and connectivity between the two sites. I would overall rate VMware SRM a ten out of ten. For VMware environments, VMware SRM is considered a necessary product to deploy. Before purchasing VMware SRM, I would advise others to build a disaster recovery plan with RPO and RTO involvement. When we recommend VMware SRM to the clients of our organization, they seem worried at first about the LTO and percentage of data loss in case of disaster. VMware SRM offers five to fifteen minutes of RTO, which can be concerning for customers on some occasions, especially if the customer belongs to BFSI, e-commerce, or any digital, commercial business category.
I will recommend the solution to others. It is a nice product. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
We have a cloud environment that requires disaster recovery capabilities. We utilize HZX to extend layer two connectivity and leverage Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for replication. I recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
For first-time users, VMware SRM can be a very difficult tool to use, especially considering the product's configuration part. The configuration is very difficult. With VMware SRM, you have to download the separate appliance and think about Windows to build a separate native appliance while also having knowledge about ESXi, making it a difficult process. When it comes to VMware SRM, the technical things are very difficult to start in the first place. I rate the overall tool a five out of ten.
I recommend VMware SRM to others and rate it a ten out of ten. I advise other users to always install the latest version.
I would advise new users to start off with manual processes and document exactly what they want to come up with in the right order. Get your IT continuity plan defined very closely and with a great amount of detail. Then start to automate with your SRM tooling to make sure that things are brought up in the right order and ensure that if one service fails and you need to bring another one across for latency purposes, you really understand all of those requirements before you start to just implement SRM and marching on without really understanding how the services tie together and the dependencies between them. Overall, I would rate SRM an eight out of ten.
Overall, I rate VMware SRM a seven out of ten.
I recommend those wanting to use the solution completely understand their own environment since VMware SRM is meant for VMware environment only. You cannot integrate VMware SRM with other non-VMware products. If your requirements are very much restricted to VMware alone, then VMware SRM can be a good choice for managing activities related to disaster recovery. If you have a mixed environment, you need to think and look for other products in the market other than VMware SRM. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
l always recommend others to have a POC in place. It's always about whether a solution suits your environment or not. So if it does, then go for it. If it doesn't, one should go for another solution. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Overall, I would rate this solution a seven, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
I give the solution a nine out of ten. The deployment and maintenance can be done by one engineer. I am the consultant solution architect, and sometimes I am the deployment engineer. I seldom ask for support from VMware because most of the problems are caused by bugs, which we can usually fix ourselves by consulting the knowledge base on the VMware website. However, there are times when the problem is at the hardware level and VMware is not at fault - for example when there is a bug in the VMware version used by the hardware vendor. In these cases, we need to ask for support from the hardware vendor. VMware SRM is a great solution. I always recommend the solution because it is a native replication solution for VMware. Although there are other solutions such as Zerto, they may deliver a lower RPO in certain cases. I believe Zerto is a better solution than VMware SRM, but when it comes to functionality, and for regular customers, VMware SRM is enough.
I would advise organizations who wish to use this solution, to ensure that their threat protection software is in place and up to date, as there isn't any threat protection embedded in this product. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We are just a customer. I'm not sure which version of the product we're using. However, we are updating right now, in the next month. Right now, our environment is on-prem. We want to install the hyper-converged to start moving to the cloud. I'd advise others to maintain the solution and keep it up to date. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I'd rate SRM as eight out of ten.
If you're able to overcome the initial hump of setting up VMware SRM, it works very well. I'd give VMware SRM a rating of seven out of ten.
VMware SRM is the best sustainability solution, I would rate it at nine on a scale from one to ten.
I recommend VMware SRM and rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.
I rate VMware SRM an eight out of ten.
I don't remember the version of SRM that we're using now. I'd recommend the solution to others. I would rate it at an eight out of ten.
I rate this product six out of 10.
I would rate it an eight out of 10. There is some complexity there, and that's where I would bring it down from a 10.
I would advise others looking into implementing VMware SRM not to totally be dependent upon it. Review other solutions, such as Veritas regulatory platform and Zerto. There are newer VM DR options coming out regularly and they should not have only one solution. I rate VMware SRM a six out of ten.
I would definitely recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. I would rate VMware SRM an eight out of ten.
We are using two product versions. We are using product versions 6.0 and 6.5. We need to use only on-premises deployment models. This due to the fact that there are sanctions in my country. We cannot use the cloud services directly as there is no support. For customers who are using VMware infrastructure, I recommend using VMware SRM due to the fact that it has the ability to integrate with other products like HP, SRA, or even CSRA. It has good features that integrate well with a storage concept. Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
From what I have seen, a lot of these new hyper-converged systems come with certain components that do a lot of what SRM does. My opinion and advice to people considering SRM would be to look to your hardware vendor or consultant. They may have some replication pieces in there that allow you to possibly not use SRM or go ahead and stay with what you already have. Depending on your situation, different combinations might prove more beneficial either within the architecture or by cost-benefit. There are a lot of options out there now for disc replication and bringing machines up at other locations. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate the SRM as about an eight-out-of-ten.
I personally will not continue using the VMware SRM solution. That is not a question of what is best. Our position moving forward is that we will not be having a footprint in the VMware space. If someone had the ability to focus on lots of things with using VMware in the cloud then there no issues at all with the product and this is a good solution for that purpose. The product functionality is fairly high-quality. Our decision is more based around the direction that we are taking. We will be cloud-based and we will be using AWS predominantly as our cloud-provider solution. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate this solution overall as an eight-out-of-ten. It would not be closer to a ten because there is still some work that we need to carry out with regular maintenance and then there are the increasing license costs. An eight seems about right.
In summary, this is a mature product that works very well. It is easy to set up. I like the fact that it has a bubble test feature that allows you to test your configurations without actually failing over. However SRM is very pricy. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
In the past, with version 6.0, there were two versions of SRM. There was a version for Windows as well as an appliance. However, all of our customers are now moving to the appliance. I recommend using this product because it integrates well with replication technology from any vendor using the SRA. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
This is a product that I would recommend for people with a VMware stack. I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate VMware SRM as about a five. I am not open to giving a positive recommendation as the product stands. It is a little generous to give it a five considering all the issues. This review focuses a lot on the weaknesses of the product. But we were actually able to use the solution to get quite a lot of server images successfully, especially if the servers were relatively small, like a parasitic thermal server or an ordinary file server. That type of project went fine. So, if your use case is entry-level, beginning, and maybe intermediate, I think you will be fine using the product. But even if you do not have a lot of complexity and you try to work with this in a really big enterprise and a multi-region, multi-datacenter environment, you will have a lot of challenges ahead for sure. We have used it as a migration tool in support of a big transformation. I would think twice before using it for continuity on a permanent basis. I might think three times before more enhancements to the product are made successfully to enhance the utility.
My advice to people considering this solution is that they should just go ahead and get it. I think that is the best virtualization solution out there. Some people say Nutanix is better. I think VMware is the best. I would also advise making sure your virtual environment is well taken care of. I don't think there are any other challenges that you're going to have. It's necessary that when you see it side by side, to have an operations manager help you find problematic areas and possible issues you are going to encounter in the future. On a scale of 1 - 10, I give it a 9.
I would recommend the product to anyone requiring a disaster recovery process. I would rate this product an eight out of 10.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We're using the on-premises deployment model. I'd recommend the solution. I'd rate it ten out of ten.
Before choosing a cheaper solution, I would advise checking the limitations or boundaries of each solution. Compare VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V and other solutions - maybe open-source - and then see which fits your needs best.