We performed a comparison between Rubrik 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."ubrik's One-Touch Recovery helps address this. Using backup as a migration tool can also help overcome challenges when moving to a hybrid cloud."
"A Google-like file search, system scaling, and a frequent development cycle are some positives that this solution offers."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"Rubrik is a very scalable and high-performing backup restore solution."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The customer service and support could be a bit faster."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"Initially, we encountered compatibility challenges with some of our technologies."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"Collecting logs in Rubrik is very difficult compared to other tools."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 86 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". 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". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and HPE Disaster Recovery Services. See our Rubrik vs. VMware SRM report.
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