We performed a comparison between IBM Disaster Recovery Services and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"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."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"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"
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IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". 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". IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX, Sungard Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site 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 .
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