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Azure Site Recovery pros and cons

Vendor: Microsoft
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PROS

Azure Site Recovery is easy to use and offers scalability and stability, contributing to effective disaster recovery and business continuity.
It offers reliable performance with protection, production, failover, and data recovery capabilities, saving costs and improving efficiency.
Azure Site Recovery enables time-saving by automating backup and restoration processes, reducing backup time by approximately 30 percent.
It integrates seamlessly with Azure, efficiently managing and migrating workloads, helping avoid unnecessary expenses on secondary sites.
Azure Site Recovery's documentation is comprehensive, enhancing integration with other products and increasing operational efficiency.

CONS

Azure Site Recovery needs to streamline error logging and enhance troubleshooting clarity when issues arise.
Pricing predictability and clarity need improvement, with clearer cost plans.
Support for versioning and restoring previous versions should be included.
Real-time scanning for advanced threat protection and improved security features are desired.
Scalability and integration with multiple platforms, along with complex deployment, require enhancement.
 

Azure Site Recovery Pros review quotes

Rafael Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
May 13, 2024
You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region.
Mike Douthitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2024
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.
Peter Maklin Aquino - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2023
Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems.
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it_user1295826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 16, 2020
They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product.
Dani Bachour - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 5, 2023
What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations.
reviewer1271010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2020
The solution is very easy to use.
RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 27, 2024
The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault.
Muhammad Saad Zahoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 16, 2022
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.
Rajesh Patel Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 30, 2023
Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).
MikeChacker - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 12, 2021
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.
 

Azure Site Recovery Cons review quotes

Rafael Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
May 13, 2024
we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming.
Mike Douthitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2024
The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required.
Peter Maklin Aquino - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2023
The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing.
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it_user1295826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 16, 2020
It could include more of a backup and recovery.
Dani Bachour - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 5, 2023
One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately.
reviewer1271010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2020
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.
RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 27, 2024
Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.
Muhammad Saad Zahoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 16, 2022
In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement.
Rajesh Patel Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 30, 2023
The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional.
MikeChacker - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 12, 2021
It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support.