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We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster Recovery 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability.""The solution can be improved by including a load balancer.""Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools.""Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup.""One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good.""The backup and recovery options work flawlessly.""The most valuable feature of the solution is data restoration or data recovery.""Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy."

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"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change.""I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest.""If you want to do failover, it works without any problem.""It has a good and effective user interface.""The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy.""It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent.""The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten.""The simplicity of VMware SRM is one of its most important features. SRM console is straightforward to manage. It offers simplicity in monitoring, managing, and deploying, making it a unique value proposition. Additionally, Nutanix solutions also provide a simple GUI, which helps in operational efficiency."

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Cons
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products.""I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities.""The documentation can be improved, this would have helped.""The product should improve compute points.""In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support.""The cost is acceptable.""Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information.""The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."

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"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring.""The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required.""In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I""You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified.""Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice.""The product's stability could be better.""Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM.""The price, in general, could be lower."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This pricing is quite reasonable."
  • "The price of the solution is inexpensive."
  • "The tool's pricing is reasonable."
  • "Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
  • "The product has an affordable price."
  • "The solution’s pricing is average."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."
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  • "Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
  • "Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
  • "The price of this solution is on the expensive side."
  • "The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
  • "The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
  • "The licensing costs are increasing."
  • "It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."
  • "There is an annual license to use this solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment.
    Top Answer:We have backup services, and all of them are enabled on Acronis Disaster Recovery in another country. In case our production environment collapses, we can start working from the data center in Acronis… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware.
    Top Answer:VMware SRM is an expensive solution, and users need to pay extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
    Top Answer:It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM.
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    8.7
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    Average Words per Review
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    8.1
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    Also Known As
    Acronis DRaaS
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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    Overview

    Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud, all-in-one, IT continuity solution that protects and restores your data and servers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for you to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff.

    Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Providing flexible recovery time objective (RTO) options, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service combines the high performance and shortest recovery time of a local appliance with the low cost, predictability, and accessibility of a virtual private cloud.

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that is part of the vSphere virtualization suite. It helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. VMware SRM aims to minimize data loss and system downtime by letting you automate backups and orchestrate the recovery of entire VMware storage systems. VMware SRM is offered on-premises and on the AWS cloud.

    VMware SRM is most commonly used for:

    • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster avoidance
    • Data center migrations
    • Site-level load balancing
    • Maintenance testing for enterprise applications

    As a disaster recovery tool, VMware SRM:

    • Provides replication technology.
    • Supports policy-based management of backup programs.
    • Lets you run non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.

    VMware SRM Key Features

    Some of VMware SRM’s key features include:
    Good scalability and stability, fast and reliable recovery, automated orchestration workflows, automated recovery of network and security settings, non-disruptive recovery testing, orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion, stretched storage support, and self-service provisioning.

    VMware SRM Benefits

    The main benefits of using VMware SRM include:

    • Integration: VMware SRM integrates with other VMware technologies and architectures.

    • Non-disruptive testing: VMware SRM allows you to conduct tests during business hours without disruptions.

    • Reduced recovery time: By using automated orchestration workflows, VMware SRM helps to decrease recovery time to just minutes.

    • Automated failback: With automated failback, you can resume business operations as normal very quickly.

    • Extensibility for custom automation: With VMware SRM, you can use the Orchestrator plug-in to build custom automation workflows.

    • Automated network mappings: You can automatically map network settings across the two sites when creating a recovery plan.

    • Eliminate the need to re-configure IP addresses: With VMware SRM’s automated recovery of network and security settings, it is not necessary to e-configure IP addresses on recovered VMs via integration with NSX. Configurations are also reduced post-recovery by implementing security policies.

    • Centralized recovery plans: VMware SRM’s centralized recovery plans help you protect thousands of VM’s and also make it possible to eliminate manual runbooks.

    • Protect investments: With supported replication, VMware SRM helps protect investments and tailor RPOs.

    • Lower TCO: By using VMware SRM, you can lower your TCO and incur lower expenses for disaster recovery.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are reviews from PeerSpot users who are currently using the solution:

    PeerSpot user Eslam E., Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr, explains his experience using the solution and says that "VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."

    A founder at a comms service provider commented on the solution's efficiency, noting, "If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."

    Reviewer Rakesh-P., who is a consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd., mentions why he finds VMware SRM to be a good product, commenting that “The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing. The reports are very good.”

    Ahmed F., a consultant at Daniyals Inc, says that the solution doesn’t require a lot of resources and that "The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

    Sample Customers
    Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider28%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Construction Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business80%
    Large Enterprise20%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Acronis Disaster Recovery is ranked 10th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 11 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Acronis Disaster Recovery is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Disaster Recovery writes "Easy to implement and provides good features like patch management and disaster recovery". 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". Acronis Disaster Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, 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 . See our Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.

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