Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Review

It's a great, stable traditional product that is out there and once you set it up it just keeps running.

Replication, once it's setup it can just run.

The replication works great from prod site to DR site.

It's a solid product and that's been out on the market for over a decade.

6 years.

Some minor issues but not really any big ones.

As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side.

None.

Top notch.

Excellent.

We did use recoverpoint initially and then switched to SRDF. As Recoverpoint needs 20% more space for journals and is not really a reliable solution for DR purposes.

It was straight forward.

In-house.

DR was a major initiative from the higher management and that was fulfilled.

Yes, Recoverpoint. And with SRDF you don't need any outside appliance to do the replication. Everything is handled by the engine with dedicated cache for replication.