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Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs. VMware SRM
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs. VMware SRM Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Featured Review
Jon Hansen
Performs well, easy to manage, resilient, and the technical support is helpful
The management of the environment is straightforward. I no longer have to deal with a storage area network in addition to a server-level platform.... Read more →
Samuel Katwesigye
Simplifies data center application and failover processes and helps achieve Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
It has simplified data center application and failover processes, but the underlying technologies can be challenging. If we're using replication... Read more →
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click. That is extremely useful.""It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites.""The solution is stable.""It is a very secure and scalable solution, and their support is also outstanding.""The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use.""We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."

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"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing.""This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center.""The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten.""It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution.""The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it.""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.""It has a good and effective user interface.""Testing failover capabilities."

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Cons
"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers.""They need better reporting on the environment.""The solution needs improvement in cost.""The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better.""For moving the data for DR, we are using Megaport. We are using a Megaport link between the data centers, so we have a third party for the site-to-site connectivity between the data centers. If such connectivity is available from the Nutanix side, it would be helpful for us.""The pricing could be better."

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"It would be better if we could get more reporting features in VMware SRM.""The configuration process could be improved.""The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve.""There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution.""If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things.""The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated.""VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well.""You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Besides the license, there are additional costs with the network connection. The customer may want a direct connection between the two data centers and that has an extra cost."
  • "I always want it to be cheaper."
  • "One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."
  • "It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."

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  • "Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
  • "Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."
  • "The price of this solution is on the expensive side."
  • "The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
  • "The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
  • "The licensing costs are increasing."
  • "It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."
  • "There is an annual license to use this solution."

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    VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
    Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to recovery sites, but many of the disaster recovery tools today still function at the storage layer. Legacy technologies like storage array snapshots, and LUN based replication restrict the configuration options of upstream technologies like VMware Storage DRS. If you wanted to replicate a virtual machine you had to replicate the entire LUN is resided on. You weren’t free to leverage Storage DRS for its automated performance balancing features because a VM could be migrated from one LUN mucking up your storage based replication. Fortunately over the past few years there’s been great advancement in hypervisor based replication technologies. There’s a wealth of competing products vying for customer attention. As always competition drives innovation and value for the consumer. This will be the first of a 4 part blog series that looks at various hypervisor based disaster recovery products. Note this isn’t a review of backup products which is a separate category, we are looking at products specifically designed to assist companies in a disaster scenario. Before talking about products; however, we should understand their underlying architectures, and how it relates to their… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Nutanix Xi Leap?
    Top Answer:It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Xi Leap?
    Top Answer:Nutanix may be perceived as expensive compared to local vendors. Additionally, one-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received.
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    What needs improvement with Nutanix Xi Leap?
    Top Answer:The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better. In the next release, it would be beneficial to include a feature that automates the creation of services. We often have to… more »
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    What do you like most about VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution is consistent.
    Read all 35 answers   →
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:I rate the product price a five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a very high price, and ten is a very low price.
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    What needs improvement with VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors.
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    Ranking
    3rd
    out of 31 in Disaster Recovery as a Service
    Views
    465
    Comparisons
    355
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    459
    Rating
    8.3
    6th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    8,245
    Comparisons
    6,440
    Reviews
    26
    Average Words per Review
    397
    Rating
    8.2
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Nutanix Xi Leap
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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    VMware
    Overview
    Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is a fully managed DR service that eliminates the need for a dedicated DR site, minimizes data loss and downtime, and helps organizations meet RTO/RPO SLAs confidently.

    VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that is part of the vSphere virtualization suite. It helps you plan, test, and run the recovery of virtual machines between a protected vCenter Server site and a recovery vCenter Server site. VMware SRM aims to minimize data loss and system downtime by letting you automate backups and orchestrate the recovery of entire VMware storage systems. VMware SRM is offered on-premises and on the AWS cloud.

    VMware SRM is most commonly used for:

    • Disaster recovery
    • Disaster avoidance
    • Data center migrations
    • Site-level load balancing
    • Maintenance testing for enterprise applications

    As a disaster recovery tool, VMware SRM:

    • Provides replication technology.
    • Supports policy-based management of backup programs.
    • Lets you run non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.

    VMware SRM Key Features

    Some of VMware SRM’s key features include:
    Good scalability and stability, fast and reliable recovery, automated orchestration workflows, automated recovery of network and security settings, non-disruptive recovery testing, orchestrated cross-vCenter vMotion, stretched storage support, and self-service provisioning.

    VMware SRM Benefits

    The main benefits of using VMware SRM include:

    • Integration: VMware SRM integrates with other VMware technologies and architectures.

    • Non-disruptive testing: VMware SRM allows you to conduct tests during business hours without disruptions.

    • Reduced recovery time: By using automated orchestration workflows, VMware SRM helps to decrease recovery time to just minutes.

    • Automated failback: With automated failback, you can resume business operations as normal very quickly.

    • Extensibility for custom automation: With VMware SRM, you can use the Orchestrator plug-in to build custom automation workflows.

    • Automated network mappings: You can automatically map network settings across the two sites when creating a recovery plan.

    • Eliminate the need to re-configure IP addresses: With VMware SRM’s automated recovery of network and security settings, it is not necessary to e-configure IP addresses on recovered VMs via integration with NSX. Configurations are also reduced post-recovery by implementing security policies.

    • Centralized recovery plans: VMware SRM’s centralized recovery plans help you protect thousands of VM’s and also make it possible to eliminate manual runbooks.

    • Protect investments: With supported replication, VMware SRM helps protect investments and tailor RPOs.

    • Lower TCO: By using VMware SRM, you can lower your TCO and incur lower expenses for disaster recovery.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are reviews from PeerSpot users who are currently using the solution:

    PeerSpot user Eslam E., Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr, explains his experience using the solution and says that "VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."

    A founder at a comms service provider commented on the solution's efficiency, noting, "If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."

    Reviewer Rakesh-P., who is a consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd., mentions why he finds VMware SRM to be a good product, commenting that “The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing. The reports are very good.”

    Ahmed F., a consultant at Daniyals Inc, says that the solution doesn’t require a lot of resources and that "The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."

    Sample Customers
    JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise52%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service is ranked 3rd in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 6 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service writes "Affordable, highly scalable, and outstanding 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". Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service is most compared with Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Veeam Backup & Replication and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Commvault Cloud. See our Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs. VMware SRM report.

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