We performed a comparison between VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery 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."The most valuable features are the backup and disaster recovery services."
"Technical support is very proactive and helpful."
"The initial setup is easy depending on the environment you are working with."
"We feel the ability to move virtual machines while they are still running to be the most valuable feature."
"Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The replication is a key feature."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The solution is simple to use and has effective automation."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery could improve by enhancing the network bandwidth from the storage."
"The improvements should be as per customer requirements."
"When starting up the replication and converting it to the virtual machine I had some problems. I had to start the process again and that is inconvenient."
"The automation should be simplified or improved."
"It would be ideal if they added advanced analytics or AI to the solution."
"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."
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 5 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is rated 9.2, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery writes "Application can be migrated from one host to another in respects of virtual machines without the user taking notice". 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". VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is most compared with Zerto, Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Site Recovery, Rubrik and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery vs. VMware SRM report.
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