We performed a comparison between AWS Elastic 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."Technical support has been very good. They usually respond quickly to our requests."
"For regular backup and restore solutions, this product is fine."
"We went from an organization with minimal to no disaster recovery. I was able to spin up the disaster recovery environment with AWS rather quickly and meet business requirements."
"It's on the cheaper side and not too expensive for users."
"The initial setup is really straightforward."
"The most valuable aspect of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is its instant block replication feature. This allows us to perform live block verification and eliminates the need to concern ourselves with recovery point objectives. This capability is particularly advantageous for critical workloads."
"It provides our disaster recovery solution. It works fine in our tests."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"I have not seen any areas that need improvement at this time."
"The user interface, customer support, and the recovery time for the current customer query could use improvement."
"The bandwidth is a constant upload communication to the AWS DR environment, so if you do not have the proper bandwidth, it will definitely eat up your internet line."
"I set up a test, deleted the source, and went to fail it back, and it didn't work."
"The only thing I would like to see is, they don't have a formal ticketing system. There is no way I can go back and see what questions we had six months back, what issues we had, and how they were resolved."
"I would like to see better support for creating and working with archives."
"Definitely there should be better logging. From a customer perspective I would like to see more logs on what is happening. If there is an issue, I would like to know what the problem is. Right now, we have to depend on the support of the vendor to check and let us know, because we don't have access to a lot of logging information."
"The failback could be improved. It should be more intuitive."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"We would like the patching management function of this product to be improved."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is ranked 15th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 11 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is rated 7.4, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery writes "Free, easy to use, and offers 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". AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is most compared with Azure Site Recovery, AWS Backup, Oracle Data Guard, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Zerto, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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