We performed a comparison between Dell RecoverPoint, Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL], and NetApp SnapMirror based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."
"RecoverPoint's most valuable feature is the automatic failover."
"We use RecoverPoint for disaster recovery and asynchronous replication, and we use the application at a block level, not the software level. This has been tested, and it's very durable."
"The product does block-level replication very well."
"The most valuable feature we have found in RecoverPoint is its ability to provide the lowest RPO."
"When it works, it is the best product that is available."
"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."
"The solution is now Flash-based, which is better. they moved away from Java."
"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."
"We've found the support to be very good overall."
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"The most valuable feature is the snap shot."
"The technical support is quite good."
"With SnapMirror, the solution is the feature itself that is most valuable. It just replicates the data. It's very difficult to speak about, in the sense that it's similar to the features of a wheel. It is round and it's a part of an automobile."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface is very easy to manage. The replication is also very easy to set up."
"NetApp SnapMirror's ease of use and reliability are valuable features."
"The product has good performance."
"The technology enables us to have a safe backup."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."
"Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution."
"The product should provide integration with new products."
"The support is horrible."
"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."
"Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level."
"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."
"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."
"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."
"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."
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"We have different families of storage, such as the E-Series and Flash systems, but NetApp cannot be set up between them."
"The solution's dashboard and reporting could be improved."
"It is not as efficient as it needs to be. It doesn't compress the data really well when it is forwarded to a secondary site. The download performance could be better."
"If they can make the application free like other vendors or include it in all the packages, it would be great."
"Compression and deduplication could be improved."
"At the moment, we are not using the synchronous mirror, but we can implement the synchronous mirror. The only thing is that it needs another license. This is the same issue we have with business continuity. It needs another license to be implemented. You need too many separate licenses for the features. They should add some of the aspects of the premium bundle into the basic bundle. Sometimes our customers choose other replication services because of the initial cost of the licenses."
"We have to do manual verifications about the subscriptions often."
"The tool should also work on third-party solutions."
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