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."We have never had any issues with scalability."
"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."
"Technical support has been very good. They usually respond quickly to our requests."
"It provides our disaster recovery solution. It works fine in our tests."
"The solution is dependent on the network bandwidth. For example, if they have a bandwidth of 10Mbps the solution will run a little heavier. If the bandwidth is good the solution runs well."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"For regular backup and restore solutions, this product is fine."
"The initial setup is really straightforward."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"I would like to see better support for creating and working with archives."
"The failback could be improved. It should be more intuitive."
"I set up a test, deleted the source, and went to fail it back, and it didn't work."
"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."
"The UI could be a little sleeker."
"The user interface, customer support, and the recovery time for the current customer query could use improvement."
"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 have not seen any areas that need improvement at this time."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
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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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