Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Review
Straight forward, although you might face some complexity during the design phase.
Improvements to My Organization
We have built our Disaster Recovery site using the SRDF/s & SRDF/A, Using the SRDF we could have our off site Golden copy for the Critical Data and we managed to restore it back in case of data loss or corruption.
Room for Improvement
They should work more in ‘Security’ and WAN replication.
Use of Solution
7 years
Deployment Issues
No main issues, some complexity in the design.
Stability Issues
In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated.
Scalability Issues
No issues
Customer Service and Technical Support
Huge gab of professionalism and experience between the regions, we always need to escalate our issues to get it solved.
Initial Setup
Straight forward, although you might face some complexity during the design phase.
Implementation Team
The design was done by the vendor while the implementation was done by a partner. Most of them were experts with some limitations.
Other Solutions Considered
Symantec Replicator
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Last updated: Sep 17 2014
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Core Cloud System Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
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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.
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