The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions. The version designed for VMware, RecoverPoint for VMs, simplifies many problems in the VMware environment.
Dell RecoverPoint can be improved by virtualizing it, which would use less storage and enhance performance. The current requirement for physical storage is a limitation because it demands more storage space.
In the future, I would like Dell RecoverPoint to evolve as an orchestration tool that can integrate with other replication tools such as Microsoft native replication and Oracle Data Guard. Currently, having multiple tools affects our RPO during a natural disaster, so a unified orchestration tool would ease failover and failback processes.
Senior Manager- II | Unit Head - Technolgy Infra (Global) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Apr 11, 2024
Everything is delivered at the appliance level. I recommend using dedicated hardware appliances. Once the development relies on physical hardware, the performance and operating system are very good. However, they are moving the appliance functionality into the virtual machine realm. If the cluster is down on the virtual machine side, you cannot restore your data or run your DR site until the cluster is back up. So, I recommend using physical appliances.
The recent virtual edition has a lot of issues with VMware 8.0. It only works on VMware. It is not available on any other platform like Hyper-V. It is one of the biggest disadvantages of the tool. Dell is not selling the appliances anymore. It's only selling the virtual edition. The vendor must make the virtual edition compatible with other platforms.
Senior Systems Engineer at Ministry of Awqaf & Islamic Affairs
Real User
Top 10
Sep 29, 2023
It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore. Presently, our replication is exclusively done through VMware Site Recovery Manager, focusing on replicating between two similar models.
Enterprise post-sales manager. at Smart technologies (BD) Ltd
Real User
Sep 13, 2022
Our company has an on-premise environment. Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution.
Senior Systems Engineer at Ministry of Awqaf & Islamic Affairs
Real User
Top 10
Dec 24, 2021
Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level.
Senior Systems Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Real User
Nov 3, 2021
There's always room for improvement, although I don't have a specific example on hand. The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale.
The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market. If the solution could work with other storage solutions, it would be better. I would like them to add automation features across the solution.
Dell RecoverPoint provides continuous data protection with multiple recovery points to restore applications instantly to a specific point in time. It is used to protect applications with bidirectional synchronous and asynchronous replication and digital video recorder (DVR)-like recovery in physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures.
The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions. The version designed for VMware, RecoverPoint for VMs, simplifies many problems in the VMware environment.
Dell RecoverPoint can be improved by virtualizing it, which would use less storage and enhance performance. The current requirement for physical storage is a limitation because it demands more storage space.
In the future, I would like Dell RecoverPoint to evolve as an orchestration tool that can integrate with other replication tools such as Microsoft native replication and Oracle Data Guard. Currently, having multiple tools affects our RPO during a natural disaster, so a unified orchestration tool would ease failover and failback processes.
Everything is delivered at the appliance level. I recommend using dedicated hardware appliances. Once the development relies on physical hardware, the performance and operating system are very good. However, they are moving the appliance functionality into the virtual machine realm. If the cluster is down on the virtual machine side, you cannot restore your data or run your DR site until the cluster is back up. So, I recommend using physical appliances.
The recent virtual edition has a lot of issues with VMware 8.0. It only works on VMware. It is not available on any other platform like Hyper-V. It is one of the biggest disadvantages of the tool. Dell is not selling the appliances anymore. It's only selling the virtual edition. The vendor must make the virtual edition compatible with other platforms.
It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore. Presently, our replication is exclusively done through VMware Site Recovery Manager, focusing on replicating between two similar models.
New products like PowerStore do not support RecoverPoint. The product should provide integration with new products.
Our company has an on-premise environment. Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution.
RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved.
Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level.
There's always room for improvement, although I don't have a specific example on hand. The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale.
The solution normally supports only specific types and amounts of storage. If it could be increased to support much larger amounts or a wider range, it could fetch a bigger market. If the solution could work with other storage solutions, it would be better. I would like them to add automation features across the solution.
RecoverPoint journals consume a lot of storage to obtain a large RPO.