Azure Site Recovery vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

Azure Site Recovery vs. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (13th)

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

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."

"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 helps to save costs."

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

"The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site."

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

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

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

"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."

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

"The technical support from Dell is excellent."

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Cons

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

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"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."

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"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 could include more of a backup and recovery."

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

"The solution could improve by being more easier to use. However, once you have used it for a while it becomes easier. Additionally, there could be better support and compatibility with management by having a command-line interface. This would be beneficial for the customers."

"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 solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

"The solution currently supports only VMware. There is increasing demand for compatibility with other hypervisors, such as Hyper V and KVM Proxmox. Additionally, licensing has become less flexible and more expensive."

"I would like to see integration with EMC NetWorker in the next release."

"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."

"It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"They have a license to pay."

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

"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 a very reasonably priced product."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

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

"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."

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

"This is an expensive product."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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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.

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

Its bit costly for long term use

What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services. Integrating these services would make the solution more a...

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.

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

The cost of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has increased recently with less licensing flexibility. It's now part of a larger bundle rather than a standalone product.

What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

The solution currently supports only VMware. There is increasing demand for compatibility with other hypervisors, such as Hyper V and KVM Proxmox. Additionally, licensing has become less flexible a...

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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.

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.

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

Azure Site Recovery vs. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines