VMware SRM Scalability

Amardeep-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal - Solution Engineering at Tata Communications Ltd

VMware SRM is a scalable solution. Our clients are generally enterprise businesses.

I rate VMware SRM an eight out of ten for scalability.

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Wladimir Furtado - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor on IT Governance and Projects / Advisor on IT Governance and Projects at Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Ceará (TCE-CE)

The soluton is scalable. We are doing preparing our environment to be active site-to-site - both the production site and secondary site.

We have 900 people in total on the solution. 

We're in the process of changing things now. 

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Samuel Katwesigye - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at NSSF

The usage is restricted to a maximum of three users. They are administrators. It does not need much scaling because one server can manage a certain number of hosts. It really depends on the underlying replication infrastructure.

Overall, I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. 

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Andy-Scannell - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Manager at Kyndryl

I would rate the scalability of VMware SRM as a six out of ten. Scalability challenges occur occasionally, especially during migrations from on-premises to the cloud, as it is often a gradual process over several months. Creating a financial model that aligns with this scalability can be quite challenging. Within our organization, which has a worldwide presence, approximately 90,000 people use this solution. However, in specific areas like the delivery organization and operations, the user count is in the hundreds.

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Asheesh Asthana - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Product Manager at Cisco

VMware SRM is quite scalable.

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ESLAM ELSAYAAD - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr

VMware SRM we mainly use for our mid-size business customers. For small business-sized customers, we have different solutions we can deliver, such as Veeam. If they are a small customer that does not have a professional DR site we have a variety of solutions we can deliver depending on the customer's needs.

Enterprise businesses have many VM and the amount depends on the design of the data centers, which storage is being used, or is it hyper-converged or converged. We are choosing the best solution depending on the customer's need.

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Dissa Bandara - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at LIT

The product is highly scalable. We encounter challenges while changing the portfolio. Overall, it works as per our expectations. We have deployed it for more than 200 enterprise customers. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten.

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DineshKumar21 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Rackspace Technology

Scalability will not be applicable to VMware SRM since it is a product that does disaster recovery. Its scalability can be considered because you can add additional nodes to the product if you want to scale while ensuring you have the required licenses.

We use the solution for more than 100 customers.

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Branko Cirovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Comtrade Group

It's important to note that the scalability of the solution should align with the customer's needs. If they anticipate increased workloads and data, they can easily scale up their storage systems. Site Recovery Manager simplifies this process, as it doesn't necessitate extensive reconfiguration, instead, it involves adding or extending data links in the replication groups, making it a straightforward and manageable process. It is well-suited for mid-sized and small companies that don't have extensive data replication needs. It's a practical choice for businesses in need of a reliable and scalable disaster recovery solution that matches their specific requirements.

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Naunton Cheesman - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Cloudstratex

I think it's scalable. When you work for big organizations, I don't think that's much of a problem. There are multiple and fairly large clusters. That's one of the ways that we reduce cost because we are building things like sequel clusters. Approximately 5,000 people use SRM at our company.

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JA
Technical Services Manager at eBiZolution

The solution is scalable. We only need to add a host whenever we want to expand our cluster.

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TH
Manager IT Security & Infrastructure at Currimjee Jeewanjee & Co. Ltd.

The product can scale well. It's not an issue. 

We have three or four people on the solution right now.  They are mostly infrastructure engineers. 

We don't have plans to increase usage. 

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Daniele Curzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Systematika Distribution

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Three engineers in my company use the product.

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Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

VMware SRM is a scalable solution. I work with mostly small and medium businesses.

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ChukwuemekaOnyemelukwe - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Administrator - Server, Storage & Virtualization at MicroAccess Ltd

I have not scaled it before so I am not able to give feedback on that.

The environments we have deployed it on are enterprise environments, like the fashion wear industry, dotcom companies, and some other companies also.

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RH
Technology Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the scalability of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

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Nipuna Nakandala - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Manager (Virtual Infrastructure) at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is scalable. 

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Amila Abeysinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at ARC ONE (PVT) LTD

It is a scalable solution.

At the moment, just one of our company's customers uses the solution since we have replaced the native backup software used in our company. We need to take care of the renewal of SRM since, right now, we only take care of the renewal of vSphere in our company.

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Rajasekaran Thiyagarajan - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Consultant at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

You can add multiple appliances, and it supports enterprise environments.

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OA
System Team Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not tried to scale the solution. However, we are aware that it can be quite scalable. It depends on the license. 

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MZ
Senior Manager IT - Infrastructure at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
MO
private cloud team at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten. We have 10 to 20 users in our organization. We use the solution twice a month.

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YA
Senior advisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution’s scalability is good.

2000 users are using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

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Kunle Oyetola - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business at Zeta-Web Nigeria Limited

It is scalable.

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RN
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions

No issues. This product scales according to licenses purchased.

SRM 5.8 scales very well as compared to v5.5

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SP
Customer Success Engineer at Digital Network Solution (DNS)

We haven't found any issues with VMware SRM's scalability.

In my company, most of the machines have been replicated through VMware SRM, which consists of very few and not many in numbers. We also use Veeam as a backup for external storage, making VMware SRM a handy tool for our company.

One or two administrators are enough to handle the solution.

Speaking about the product's future usage, our company doesn't have much of a requirement for VMware SRM because we majorly need it only for testing purposes. For our company, VMware SRM is not an important tool. Our company recommends VMware SRM to our customers since VMware has been putting out all these features, making its product better.

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SK
Director - Cyber Resilience at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability of VMware SRM is good. Scalability for Azure and AWS is also good. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My company deals with enterprise-sized customers.

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AA
Senior BCDR Professional at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

VMware SRM is scalable, but it can be improved.

We have 15 to 20 customers who are using SRM. We have customers not only in the US but in the UK also.

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

In terms of scalability, you can integrate the POC and you can distribute SRM on three sites. At our project, we use VPLEX architecture to distribute storage between two data centers and therefore we could publish an important file related to SRM virtual machines and the active LANs, which is distributed between two data centers. In terms of scalability and holding of data storage, we can put a doc online whenever we need to.

Our team has around six members for virtual support and maintenance of the VMware infrastructure. In terms of the customers that are related to using the VMware services, there are around 800 people.

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RA
Operations Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

I believe it would probably scale just fine. I only protect 25 VMs based on our licensing and I do it that way even though I actually have about 200 virtual servers. I can not really say I have done a lot to test scalability. In the six years that I have been dealing with SRM, I have just been protecting those 25 VMs. I do not have hands-on experience as to how well it would scale out.  

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AF
Consultant at Daniyals Inc

The solution is easy to scale.

The solution is used extensively in our large organization.

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MA
SAN and UNIX Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is very scalable.

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

We have 400 VMware SRM users in our organization. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

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MK
Consultant-Instructor at Flexdata

VMware SRM is scalable.

Most of our clients are in Morocco, and 80% of them are bigger companies with a lot of users.

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MB
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The product promises to be scalable. You can add multiple vRA's — as many as you want per what you want to do. But then again, you are bound by physical constraints. For example, if you want to have multiple vRA's with multiple targets, that does not work. They have to all be directed towards one individual target. It could be multiple data stores, but it still has to be directed to the same target.  

In one case, we wanted to extend to an additional target, so we initiated two targets. Of course, the targets had two different configurations, two different data stores, and so on. That will not work. So that is where scalability ends.  

We had to do a complete reconfiguration with new targets. Then push everything over to a new target, then destroy it again, and bring it back to the first. We have done that on a few occasions, back and forth, and it is quite a cumbersome process. It should not be the case.  

Again this particular case was kind of an advanced setup. But we also have tried some multiple vRA's with just one target. But even there we have encountered synchronization issues because they need to keep in sync, and it may not happen.  

Internal software synchronization issues amongst the vRA's paralyze the replications. There are some bugs in this functionality as well. We tried to patch them up using fixes provided from the VMware lab. Eventually, we ended up on version 6.5.1. Later on, those patches disappeared, apparently because VMware understood the patches did not fix the problems — or maybe created more.  

Because of all these issues, we are no longer using the product for the moment. This is because of all the problems and the fact that there is an ongoing license cost as well. I think at the peak we had 10 users. These were admins and engineers. I was using the product as a solutions design architect. But right now I would never use it unless it is for disaster recovery or rehearsal or something like that.  

The advice that I would give to other people who are looking into implementing this solution is that every software product comes with flaws. Products can evolve very rapidly. I think in our case that it was quite a good learning experience. It was a good learning experience for VMware as well — as they acknowledged. They said they would work on improvements in the various areas I brought up to them, and I liked that they will be making the effort.  

But if considering this product, I would also look at other compelling products, like Zerto, for example, or other replication tools like the Sun virtual platform. You could look at the ease-of-use of Nutanix. Their process for replication is very different compared to what SRM offers. But the ease-of-use comes with constraints. You do not always have the choice to have equal foundations for both source and target. Then there are backup solutions like Rubrik and Veeam. There are certainly alternatives out there that are categorically different product types with other ways to accomplish similar things. But a lot of what is potentially a viable choice depends on the use case.  

My recommendation would be to prepare carefully. Mimic your own live environment in testing as close as possible to the existing architecture with the vendor. Let the vendor prove that they are value-added resellers. Make sure you have tested in a representative set up at their facilities and can achieve what you are trying to achieve before going on to attempt to deploy and use it in your own environment.  

I do not think SRM is fully ready yet for a hybrid context where the workload is working across multiple clouds and on-premises. It is an evolving product.  

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it_user166620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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DH
Senior Systems Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

It is scalable, although the downside to scaling is the cost.

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SJ
Sr . IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

VMware SRM is a scalable solution.

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Daniele Curzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Systematika Distribution

It is difficult to judge scalability because I would have to understand the intent. It is not a scale-out solution. It is for site recovery.

Our customers for VMware SRM are medium to large-sized companies.

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MS
VMware Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The product is very scalable. 

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SoheylNorozi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have no issues in mind with respect to scalability or flexibility.

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JM
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The scalability is just a function. Whether you can scale or not depends on your resources. It depends on your bandwidth. The scalability will depend on the infrastructure it is using.

We have three people who work with the solution directly.

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it_user335949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's really just an add on to the virtual center. It used to be responsible for replicating. It is no longer responsible for replicating. The replication portion of Site Recovery Manager has been moved to vSphere itself. A lot of people may not know this. So you do not need to buy Site Recovery Manager in order to replicate VMs around. You can do that for free. But the automation piece that I'm telling you about and the playbook and stuff is what you buy Site Recovery Manager for now.

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MW
Senior Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user165303 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
it_user175035 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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MS
VMware Technician Manager at VAS

VMware SRM is scalable.

We have approximately 25 people using this solution in my company.

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AF
Consultant at Daniyals Inc

The overall advantage of VMware is its scalability. But when it comes to SRM, scalability is not really relevant. It's only relevant in terms of the DR solution because SRM is a component of VMware, which requires vCenter. 

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it_user250251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

It's easy to scale, just limited to storage vendors.

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it_user175554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

None encountered.

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it_user165579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user320220 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It does have some limitations, but I would give it a 6/10.

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it_user186366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user174720 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner with 51-200 employees

None encountered.

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it_user166617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No backwards compatibility of different versions, this made scaling a bit difficult as we needed to upgrade existing infrastructure all the time.

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it_user175104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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RP
Consultant at Ashtech Infotech (India) Pvt.Ltd.

It is easy to scale VMware SRM.

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it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is bigger and better than the competitors.

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Buyer's Guide
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March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware SRM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.