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IBM Disaster Recovery Services vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Disaster Recovery Services
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Live Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

MertPolatay - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 25, 2024
Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability
The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery I install it in organizations that work 24/7. They need a high-availability solution and a disaster recovery center because they don't want any downtime. I like its ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability. Nothing, it’s…
Siva Kuppala - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 30, 2024
Offers simplified management and automated recovery process, which reduces the need for manual intervention during a disaster
Automated recovery is one good feature, SRM also offers simplified management. It has a centralized interface for configuring, testing, and executing disaster recovery plans across multiple sites. This means management from a single point, even for many sites. Recovery plans can be different for customers. So, another important feature is the policy-based protection within SRM. Recovery plans can be customized based on business requirements, including Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). These objectives might differ between industries – healthcare might need a more aggressive RPO, for instance. Additionally, SRM offers failback capabilities and reporting features for compliance.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
 

Cons

"Stability could always be better."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"When starting up the replication and converting it to the virtual machine I had some problems. I had to start the process again and that is inconvenient."
"It would be ideal if they added advanced analytics or AI to the solution."
"The automation should be simplified or improved."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"The solution is on the expensive side."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."
"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."
"After Broadcom acquired the solution, the licensing cost increased drastically"
"VMware SRM is an expensive solution, and users need to pay extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
"Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs."
"The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."
"There is an annual license to use this solution."
"The licensing costs for the product are perpetual in nature. A person needs to buy the license only once there is a need to buy support on a yearly basis. The licensing cost for VMware SRM is expensive."
"The price could be lower, in general. My clients pay for an annual license."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...
What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs. Their capabilities are extensive, but the licensing model can be complex.
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
While there are no major drawbacks, some potential improvements could address complexities in implementing and maintaining SRM. The cost can be significant, and there's a resource overhead – meanin...
 

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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM
 

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Sample Customers

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n
Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON
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