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."Instant recovery is a good feature."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"We do like the instant recovery... Now, we say, "Okay, give me 15 seconds and I can get this back up for you." And within that 15 seconds it's on and the only thing that we have to do afterwards is vMotion it off of the Rubrik storage back to where it should rest."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"The product's stability could be better."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
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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