Azure Site Recovery Reviews

We use the solution primarily for migrations, backup and BCP.

All the features are great.

The immutable backup could be better and should be improved.

We have been using this solution for about four years. It is deployed differently depending on the customer.

It is a stable product.

It is scalable. Our customers are small and midsize businesses.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup was straightforward and took about 4 hours to complete.

The pricing should be free, and I think it should not be that expensive.

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products.

We haven't really found any of the features to be valuable. It's around five years behind other market leaders. We prefer to use VMware products for site recovery software.

We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor.

I have been using Site Recovery since 2015. 

It is a very stable product and very scalable. If you've got existing technology it is very very difficult to move across.

I would rate their technical support as six out of ten.

We use VMware Site Recovery Manager. 

The initial setup is fairly easy. It's feature-diluted. It's quite easy to set up. You do need support from Microsoft though if you're going to get the most out of it. Their support isn't so good. We prefer to use our partners. We've gotten little support and little help from them. They're not as knowledgeable as our own partners. 

We've invested nearly 20 million pounds in Azure and it's been an absolute disaster for us.

We've got three full-time administrators, which is quite high. That supports 10,000 people but we are 95% of our services actually in VMware.

In the next release, I would like to see better block-level recovery. It is key. Bare metal recovery and block-level recovery. 

I would rate Azure Site Recovery a four out of ten. If you start from scratch, it's fine. 

Primary use case really depends on the client. The product can be used by insurance companies, hospitals, healthcare professionals. We mainly use the product for backup and disaster recovery and it's suitable for small and medium enterprise companies. 
It's used occasionally, not on a daily basis. We are in partnership with Microsoft and I work as a senior sales solution architect. 

One of the valuable features is failure restores. 

Improvement could be made on the pricing model. It could be brought in line with the competitive ranges in the market 

Additional features could include more of a backup and recovery. We'd like to see the AIX operating system added into it. It's more virtual right now.

I've been using the product for the last two or three years. 

Stability really depends on the situation, sometimes it's better and other times it's worse. It's generally fine. 

Scalability is good in this solution. 

The initial setup depends on the kind of control infrastructure that the clients have and that determines whether the setup is simple or complex. Azure doesn't have its own hardware for on-prem which makes it more complex for the reseller or as a solution for companies like us,  because we have to go and talk to different vendors for hardware. It means you then have to go and  buy the licenses or OS for everything and it becomes complex for someone who is selling it to the customer because there are several elements that need to be taken into consideration. We provide installation services and that can take a week or two. 

There are different components in pricing and for each and every component you have to check the box and you have to look for options - check if they have a front end or back end kind of licensing, those are different types of licensing that can possibly be made simpler and probably cheaper. 

We looked at Dell EMC but I think we went with Site Recovery because it fits better with cloud and they're moving a lot of their workload to cloud like Azure, and want something that is seamlessly integrated. It also provides one vendor whereas with Dell you then need to go to Azure and if a problem isn't resolved then who is responsible. 

I would rate this product an eight out of 10. 

We use this solution mainly for compliance and to a DR and a commitment in RTO and RPO.

The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards. 

The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved. 

I have been using this solution for two years. 

This is a stable solution. 

The initial setup is straightforward. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery for our organization.

The solution is very easy to use.

The approach the solution takes to data recovery is very good. We can fail-over from production and the disaster recovery aspect of the solution is quite seamless. There are a few configurations that need to happen, however, once it's up it works quite well.

There have been issues with replication. 

It would be helpful if error logging was handled more effectively.

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.

I've only been using the solution for about six months. It's still quite new to me.

We haven't faced any crashes, bugs, or glitches. I would consider the solution to be quite stable.

The solution is easily scalable.

We're pushing about 40 servers into the cloud for disaster recovery using site recovery.

I can only vouch for the actual support we've gotten from Microsoft and that was very good. We have no complaints there; the support was very helpful when it came to handling the issue that we did have.

The initial setup is very straightforward. We didn't have any issues with any complexities.

We implemented in phases. In full, it took us about two or three months to deploy the solution. However, if a company is simply looking to do one or two servers, it's only going to take a couple of hours, or maybe a couple of days to go to the cloud. 

I'd estimate it would take about a month, for your average environment (a small to medium-sized environment) to deploy onto Site Recovery.

We're a partner as well as a customer.

We would definitely recommend the product. 

I would caution, or highlight rather, that if anyone is collecting resources they need to confirm that they're all configuring it correctly so that it doesn't generate unexpected costs because of a context that may be incorrect.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.