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."They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"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."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
"The product's stability could be better."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 84 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 "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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