• Home
  • VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs VMware SRM comparison

Cancel
You must select at least 2 products to compare!
VMware Logo
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
Read 5 VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery reviews
414 views|351 comparisons
100% willing to recommend
VMware Logo
VMware SRM
Read 73 VMware SRM reviews
8,050 views|6,298 comparisons
87% willing to recommend
Comparison Buyer's Guide
Download the complete report
Buyer's Guide
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM
September 2023
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between VMware Cloud 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 VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM Report (Updated: September 2023).
Download the complete report
772,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Featured Review
Bunmi Sadiq
Application can be migrated from one host to another in respects of virtual machines without the user taking notice
Before using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, we were running on a batch storage solution backup, which was conducted by one of my team members.... Read more →
Siva Kuppala
Offers simplified management and automated recovery process, which reduces the need for manual intervention during a...
From a VMware perspective, we use SRM, or Site Recovery Manager, for disaster recovery. SRM has an automated recovery process, which reduces the... Read more →
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Technical support is very proactive and helpful.""The initial setup is easy depending on the environment you are working with.""The most valuable features are the backup and disaster recovery services.""Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.""We feel the ability to move virtual machines while they are still running to be the most valuable feature."

More VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Pros →

"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten.""The replication is a key feature.""Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options.""The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change.""It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation.""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.""We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable.""It is easy to implement for my clients."

More VMware SRM Pros →

Cons
"It would be ideal if they added advanced analytics or AI to the solution.""VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery could improve by enhancing the network bandwidth from the storage.""The improvements should be as per customer requirements.""When starting up the replication and converting it to the virtual machine I had some problems. I had to start the process again and that is inconvenient.""The automation should be simplified or improved."

More VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Cons →

"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.""An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products.""The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers.""It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM.""If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things.""It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level.""VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well.""In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."

More VMware SRM Cons →

Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I would say VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is very expensive in comparison with other available virtualization solutions."
  • "The price of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery should be lowered in order to compete better in the market."
  • "The pricing is good."

    • More VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Pricing and Cost Advice →

  • "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."

    • More VMware SRM Pricing and Cost Advice →

    report
    See Which Vendors Are Best For You
    Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions are best for your needs.
    See Recommendations
    772,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.
    Comparison Review
    Anonymous User
    VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
    Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to recovery sites, but many of the disaster recovery tools today still function at the storage layer. Legacy technologies like storage array snapshots, and LUN based replication restrict the configuration options of upstream technologies like VMware Storage DRS. If you wanted to replicate a virtual machine you had to replicate the entire LUN is resided on. You weren’t free to leverage Storage DRS for its automated performance balancing features because a VM could be migrated from one LUN mucking up your storage based replication. Fortunately over the past few years there’s been great advancement in hypervisor based replication technologies. There’s a wealth of competing products vying for customer attention. As always competition drives innovation and value for the consumer. This will be the first of a 4 part blog series that looks at various hypervisor based disaster recovery products. Note this isn’t a review of backup products which is a separate category, we are looking at products specifically designed to assist companies in a disaster scenario. Before talking about products; however, we should understand their underlying architectures, and how it relates to their… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer: Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.
    Read all 5 answers   →
    What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer:The improvements should be as per customer requirements.
    Read all 5 answers   →
    What is your primary use case for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
    Top Answer:We have three different VMs. During long business hours, we can shift from PR to DR. It has high availability.
    Read all 5 answers   →
    What do you like most about VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware.
    Read all 37 answers   →
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:VMware SRM is an expensive solution, and users need to pay extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
    Read all 27 answers   →
    What needs improvement with VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM.
    Read all 39 answers   →
    Ranking
    4th
    out of 32 in Disaster Recovery as a Service
    Views
    414
    Comparisons
    351
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    147
    Rating
    9.0
    6th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    8,050
    Comparisons
    6,298
    Reviews
    26
    Average Words per Review
    408
    Rating
    8.1
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Datrium DRaaS
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
    Learn More
    VMware
    VMware
    Overview

    Datrium Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with VMware Cloud on AWS is transforming DR with its cloud-native design, built-in backup, instant RTO, and on-demand model. It’s liberating IT from the complexity of legacy DR approaches and standalone backup tools.

    For more information, please visit www.datrium.com.

    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
    Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise59%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM
    September 2023
    Free Report: VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM
    Find out what your peers are saying about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM and other solutions. Updated: September 2023.
    DOWNLOAD NOW
    772,422 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 5 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is rated 9.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery writes "Application can be migrated from one host to another in respects of virtual machines without the user taking notice". 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". VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is most compared with Zerto, Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Site Recovery, Rubrik and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, 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 VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.

    See our list of best Disaster Recovery (DR) Software vendors.

    We monitor all Disaster Recovery (DR) Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.