Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] Reviews

Name: Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL]
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 5 (7 reviews)

4.6 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL]?

The Symmetrix Remote Data Facility family of software is the gold standard for remote replication in mission critical environments. Built for the industry-leading high-end VMAX hardware architecture, the SRDF family of solutions is trusted for disaster recovery and business continuity.

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reviewer173349

AGT Infrastructure Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

SRDF is used our disaster recovery service by using replication from our production site to our DR site. We have two different production and DR site pairs in two different global geographies. One use case has got SRDF asynchronous replication and another has SRDF synchronous replication primarily…

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reviewer1564485

Storage Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for its high availability The general stability on offer has been a great help to the organization. We've found the support to be very good overall. The features that are available to us are good. The solution is pretty stable. I cannot recall us requesting any…

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it_user157635

System Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability to control functionality with a command line utility for ease of scripting SRDF has served as a robust method of providing a golden, point-in-time copy of our most critical data. I would like to see command line status queries give higher level, more meaningful results; i.e. data…

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Valuable Features

"We've found the support to be very good overall."
"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

Room for Improvement

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."
"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

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