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."Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"It has reduced our maintenance efforts. The amount of time and effort that would have gone in troubleshooting various issues related a data crash has been addressed by Rubrik. So, it has helped to improve our productivity. The data is being captured about our customers periodically that is secure and safe."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"The solution is very flexible."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"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."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"The solution is consistent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"The recovery of Oracle databases is too complicated. It is not something that helps the DBA, the Database Administrator, but it should be done by the backup person like many other solutions. Everything is ready for the DBA to recover the database. It is a way of doing things, but I don't think you should give the backup people the ability to do it."
"We have some challenges with the solution's reporting because historical reports have some limitations."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"I would like to see more openness for partners to access and assist in system management. Currently, access is limited, often handled by Rubrik personnel, likely due to security concerns."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"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."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 82 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". 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, Zerto 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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