We performed a comparison between IBM Disaster Recovery Services and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"VMware SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
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IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews. IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX, Sungard Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site Recovery, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service .
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