We performed a comparison between AWS Elastic 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."It's on the cheaper side and not too expensive for users."
"Technical support has been very good. They usually respond quickly to our requests."
"It provides our disaster recovery solution. It works fine in our tests."
"The solution is dependent on the network bandwidth. For example, if they have a bandwidth of 10Mbps the solution will run a little heavier. If the bandwidth is good the solution runs well."
"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution."
"The most valuable aspect of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is its instant block replication feature. This allows us to perform live block verification and eliminates the need to concern ourselves with recovery point objectives. This capability is particularly advantageous for critical workloads."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, it's not complex."
"The initial setup is really straightforward."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The replication is a key feature."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The bandwidth is a constant upload communication to the AWS DR environment, so if you do not have the proper bandwidth, it will definitely eat up your internet line."
"The user interface, customer support, and the recovery time for the current customer query could use improvement."
"I would like to see better support for creating and working with archives."
"Sometimes a server will get a bit behind. "
"Definitely there should be better logging. From a customer perspective I would like to see more logs on what is happening. If there is an issue, I would like to know what the problem is. Right now, we have to depend on the support of the vendor to check and let us know, because we don't have access to a lot of logging information."
"The UI could be a little sleeker."
"The only thing I would like to see is, they don't have a formal ticketing system. There is no way I can go back and see what questions we had six months back, what issues we had, and how they were resolved."
"The solution's network setup and a lot of the control tower setup could be improved."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is ranked 17th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 11 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is rated 7.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery writes "Free, easy to use, and offers 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". AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is most compared with Azure Site Recovery, AWS Backup, Oracle Data Guard, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Zerto, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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