Dell RecoverPoint Reviews

Most replication products focus solely on replicating block data from production to your disaster recovery (DR) site. RecoverPoint's advantage is snapshots. You can recover data from up to ten minutes or ten hours ago on your DR side.

For example, if your production site data is corrupted, the replicated data on the DR side is also unusable. You need a good backup of the production environment. RecoverPoint's snapshots allow you to restore or view the image on either the DR or production side if data is compromised.

I've used both Dell RecoverPoint and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.

During the first phase, I used the RecoverPoint appliance, a physical hardware appliance by Dell EMC. Later, I used RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines in a smaller capacity. I recommend it to clients as well.

The image backup feature is great. For example, if you set the journal to take a backup every ten minutes, it will create a snapshot or pointer every ten minutes for as long as you need.

It's very user-friendly. RecoverPoint has an excellent graphical user interface (GUI). I even prefer it over Veeam in terms of ease of use.

We are utilizing Dell RecoverPoint for replicating data between our Dell EMC Unity 400H and VNX 2250 storage arrays for the purpose of disaster recovery.

We employ Classic Area CoverPoint, in our setup. This configuration involves replication through a total of four appliances—two located in our headquarters office and another two at the disaster recovery site. This solution operates as CDP, which means it replicates data at the block level in real-time and the replication happens between our HQ office and the DLP. To ensure data integrity and availability, we utilize both synchronous and asynchronous replication modes, depending on the specific requirements of each scenario.

Our primary use cases involve Dell RecoverPoint and Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery purposes. We use Dell RecoverPoint specifically for shared clusters and continuous data protection, such as when there's a shared disk between two virtual machines that cannot be replicated using SRM.

The most valuable features include the ease of defining contingency groups and the drag-and-drop functionality, which speeds up our application processes. We have found Dell RecoverPoint beneficial for replication in situations where SRM cannot be used. Its intuitive user interface is also helpful.

We use RecoverPoint for disaster recovery and asynchronous replication, and we use the application at a block level, not the software level. This has been tested, and it's very durable. We mainly use RecoverPoint because we have different models. The standard storage block is EMC VNX5800, and the other is Unity 300. 

We need middleware to replicate between these two SAN storage devices, so we use RecoverPoint from Dell EMC. If they were from the same company, we could use the native software. For example, if we were replicating from Unity to Unity, we wouldn't need RecoverPoint.

Integration with VMware is the only thing we need to improve. Another feature I'd like to see is the ability to convert management to HTML. And the integration should also be done on the same level.

We have implementations in place for replication and for VM-based applications between Dell-based storages.

I have not done extensive research in this aspect, however, I find that currently, even with RecoverPoint, it has been very useful. I simply have to manage all the storage applications and everything. It performs even better than VMware SRM. 

Additionally, in terms of operational and financial benefits, in case of any disaster, it can recover.

Our clients are very happy with the product. The solution is used for data recovery from primary sites to secondary sites.

When it works, it is the best product that is available.

The tool's most valuable feature is stability. 

I have been working with the product for three years. 

Our organization is a service order company. We install latency systems for our end customers. We use RecoverPoint on the front customer side as a solution to restore their server.

The solution replicates the production data for our customer. It is geographically specific from one location to another.

The most valuable feature of Dell RecoverPoint is when a customer has private data in their data center, from the replicator site and from the DL site, they can continue their production in the shortest possible time.

Another valuable feature of this solution is that it has a point-in-time recovery feature. If you have loose data, or if you have a cyberattack, you can go back to your production site from the past few minutes or even the past few months and the data will be unaltered.

The product does block-level replication very well.