We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud 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."Real-time synchronization is a good feature."
"The data protection itself is very good compared to other products."
"The solution has the fastest backup and better licensing."
"The rate of duplication is great."
"The convenience of backing up and restoring simultaneously is very valuable."
"It integrates redundant storage and preserves jams in a storage area, providing up to 70% compression rate."
"The product is a reliable solution."
"Scalability, as well as stability, are a couple of important parts of this solution."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"Automated recovery is one good feature, SRM also offers simplified management. It has a centralized interface for configuring, testing, and executing disaster recovery plans across multiple sites. This means management from a single point, even for many sites."
"The solution is very flexible."
"My customers are not satisfied with the tool because there is a little trouble with the throughput of Metallic."
"You can't change Metallic's retention policies without contacting the Commvault support team."
"The customer support is not good."
"You need quite a lot of human resources to maintain a Commvault environment, to keep it operational. Also, it would be nice to if there were an easier way set up some Commvault components."
"Command Center definitely gives us a complete view of our data. But finding some of the granular, very small items that we sometimes have to find, such as auxiliary copies for tapes, I still find that it's easier to navigate and, sometimes, only possible to find them using the CommCell tool."
"They should move the CommServe outside of Windows machines and the database should be distributed among servers. It's still a single point of failure."
"The deployment process should be simplified because it is not something that just anybody can do."
"Commvault should keep and continue to develop the Java GUI."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 104 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and 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". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Zerto, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Veritas Resiliency Platform. See our Commvault Cloud vs. VMware SRM report.
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