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Precisely Assure QuickEDD vs. VMware SRM
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Precisely Assure QuickEDD 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 Precisely Assure QuickEDD vs. VMware SRM Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Featured Review
Anonymous User
Trustworthy and provides good availability
Precisely Assure QuickEDD is a trustworthy solution that provides good availability and stability.
Andy-Scannell
Makes it easier to manage and safeguard critical data within virtualized environments
VMware SRM has improved our organization's value by consistently meeting our clients' time requirements when deploying solutions. When we implement... Read more →
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"The most valuable feature of Precisely Assure QuickEDD is the backup system.""Synchronous applications are valuable."

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"It's very reliable. The solution is stable.""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.""We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable.""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's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply.""The solution is very flexible.""It has a good and effective user interface.""The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."

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Cons
"There should be more interactive dashboards.""Our administrator found the solution easy to use, but once that administrator left, it felt very overwhelming to the individual who took it over."

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"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved.""The configuration process could be improved.""The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated.""The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication.""The product's stability could be better.""The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers.""Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring.""The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is expensive. The cost varies based on your requirements. If you want to manage it, there is an extra cost."

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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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    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 Precisely Assure QuickEDD?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Precisely Assure QuickEDD is the backup system.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Precisely Assure ...
    Top Answer:It is expensive. The cost varies based on your requirements. If you want to manage it, there is an extra cost.
    What needs improvement with Precisely Assure QuickEDD?
    Top Answer:There should be more interactive dashboards. Its performance can be improved. Every product needs performance improvement. It's working fine, but its performance can be improved.
    What do you like most about VMware SRM?
    Top Answer:The solution is consistent.
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    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
    19th
    out of 43 in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
    Views
    523
    Comparisons
    296
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    265
    Rating
    8.5
    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
    Syncsort Assure QuickEDD, Syncsort Quick-EDD/HA, Quick-EDD/HA
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
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    VMware
    Overview

    Protecting critical IBM i applications from downtime and guarding against data loss with simple, scalable, full-featured high availability and disaster recovery products

    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
    Toyota Material Handling Australia, Westpac Pacific Banking, Symphony Health, Wimbledon, OCBC Bank
    Acorda Therapeutics, Columbia Sportswear, Mainfreight, Nippon Express, Sin Chew Media, Fisher & Paykel, Siam City Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Wholesaler/Distributor12%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Government14%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise55%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Precisely Assure QuickEDD is ranked 19th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 2 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews. Precisely Assure QuickEDD is rated 8.6, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Precisely Assure QuickEDD writes "Trustworthy and provides good availability". 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". Precisely Assure QuickEDD is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX, 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 Precisely Assure QuickEDD vs. VMware SRM report.

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