Azure Site Recovery vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

Microsoft and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (12th)

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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ClaudioSalgado

IT Architect Consultant at RTFM

Offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites

It offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots. It allows for automated VM protection during processes like failover and testing, and it offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites. It also provides IP address management when network configurations differ across sites.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."

"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."

"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."

"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."

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"The most valuable features are the data center recovery administration and the time of recovery."

"Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to change IP addresses when failing a server over."

"It is a very simple tool to use and offers flexibility in using the tool for recovery and transitioning from one state to another."

"The product's initial setup phase was quite easy to install."

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Cons

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

"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 conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"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."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."

"The immutable backup could be better."

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"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."

"It should have features for recovering a group of virtual machines and full-scale security. For recovering all the VMs at once, they don't have a GUI option, and we have to use the command line."

"The solution's technical team has enough skills, but the process can get complicated with the time you get connected with the L3 support."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

"The configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."

"Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover."

"Maybe integration with Kubernetes for OpenShift would be helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"They have a license to pay."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"This is an expensive product."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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Comparisons

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

SEP Software vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 40% of the time

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Compared 25% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

Compared 22% of the time

Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

Compared 6% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

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