Thanks to SRM, we haven't had any kind of disaster in our environment.

It has simplified data center application and failover processes, but the underlying technologies can be challenging. 

If we're using replication appliances, configuring them to work with SRM can be complex. Additionally, bandwidth and VM size can impact performance.

I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest.

VMware SRM has improved our organization's value by consistently meeting our clients' time requirements when deploying solutions. When we implement SRM for our clients, it helps ensure that their disaster recovery and data protection needs are addressed within their expected timeframes. 

Earlier, in case of disaster or server failure we had to rebuild the whole server/virtual machine from scratch. This rebuilding process used to take anywhere from close to a day or more, affecting production time.

With VMware vSphere Replication and SRM combined, we were able to cut down outage windows to a maximum of one hour.

We are making good use of replicated VMs for testing of OS/application update, before applying same to the production environment.

This product allows organizations to have a solid BC business continuity plan in place in case of disaster. By running regularly scheduled simulated test fail overs a business can realistically plan accordingly and customize their DR strategy.

If you can plan and create a recovery plan correctly, it will do and replicate virtual machines and when a disaster occurs, you can easily replicate off the secondary site. If you create a proper primary recovery plan, you have good protection.

We have a system that can now move us to a DR site. I have yet to experience any major crisis, however, so I haven't yet tried it. 

Lowers the cost of DR management, Eliminates clexity and risk of manual processes, Enables fast and highly predictable RTOs.

It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation.

We had not achieved our RTO before the SRM implementation. But now, we have achieved our RTO for DR drill.

You know, I've gone to a lot of Site Recovery Manager training here and stuff. One of the things that I think that they minimize is that normally you'll never use your DR site. But what you have to do every year is test your DR site.

Gives us the ability for true DR testing, readiness.

We were able to migrate 100 virtual servers to our St. Louis office with very little downtime.

We can easily create a test environment with the SRM testing functionality, also in combination with EMC recoverpoint we can start up a virtual machine to a given point in time.

Business continuity and disaster recovery, although it’s not fully storage agnostic like Zerto, and we’ve moved away a bit because we use other services for our clients.

It gives us a disaster recovery solution for different sites.

We have had some customers that were hit with some random wear and we were able to restore the files from SRM with minimal downtime.

We have a fully functioning DR environment.

• Easy to use
• Easy to document
• Easy to report
• Easy access to history

More confidence over DR services

None, I implement this product for customers.

The company was able to provide customers with the required RPO that was not possible with traditional backup solutions.

Organisations that have implemented SRM in my experience have confidence that their mission critical systems will be recovered within the given SLA in the event of a planned or unplanned availability event. This avoids costly and time consuming DR recovery tests which are also often unrepresentative of the real scenario.

it is a complementary solution to EMC's data recovery solutions, or RecoverPoint. Combined with VMware SRM it offers zero RPO and zero RTO, so it's a good solution for both EMC's Toolkit, and for the customer.