We performed a comparison between Azure Site 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."They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"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."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"I would like to see more security features."
"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."
"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". 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". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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