We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very easy to use."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"The solution helps to improve business continuity processes. Its automatic failover and failback policies have been wonderful."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."
"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."
"I would like to see more security features."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"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 this solution be more scalable."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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