We performed a comparison between Druva Phoenix 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."Once you set it up and you tell it exactly what needs to be backed up, you literally forget about it. It sends you emails and notifications of the current status of the jobs."
"The most valuable features of Druva Phoenix are the simple portal to log in and flexibility."
"I would definitively say that we have been able to make our people more productive by at least 30%."
"Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with."
"I found the cost-effectiveness of Druva Phoenix to be its most valuable feature, especially when compared to on-premises backup solutions."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"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."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"They were able to give us a very reasonable price considering we were non-for-profit organizations, however, there is always room for improvement on that cost."
"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix."
"Druva Phoenix is optimized to work with x86 platforms, making it unsuitable for backing up non-x86 architectures like AIX. The solution is primarily designed for physical Linux and Windows systems based on the x86 architecture, as well as virtualized Windows and Linux environments. However, if you have an AIX system, it cannot be deployed in the cloud, and therefore, backing it up in the cloud is not a concern."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
Druva Phoenix is ranked 13th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 5 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. Druva Phoenix is rated 8.8, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Druva Phoenix writes "Cost-effective and has excellent technical 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". Druva Phoenix is most compared with Azure Backup, Druva inSync, Veeam Backup & Replication, AWS Backup 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 Druva Phoenix vs. VMware SRM report.
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