We performed a comparison between IBM Disaster Recovery Services and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"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."
"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."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
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IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". 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". IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX, Sungard Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service .
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