We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."
"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"We feel the ability to move virtual machines while they are still running to be the most valuable feature."
"Technical support is very proactive and helpful."
"The most valuable features are the backup and disaster recovery services."
"The initial setup is easy depending on the environment you are working with."
"Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use."
"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"I would like to see more security features."
"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."
"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."
"VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery could improve by enhancing the network bandwidth from the storage."
"The improvements should be as per customer requirements."
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Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is ranked 4th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 5 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, 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". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, whereas VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is most compared with Zerto, VMware SRM, Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. See our Azure Site Recovery vs. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery report.
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