Verizon Disaster Recovery as a Service vs. VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)

VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery tools are well suited for customers who are heavily integrated with vSphere and VMs for their on-premises data centers today. VMware Cloud on AWS is great for customers who do not have DR sites and want to leverage the public cloud to build a DR site on demand quickly.

Incentivized

• Integration with VMware environments
• Simple to use for current VMware admins

Incentivized

• vSphere replication not as feature rich as storage replication
• Third party software necessary if looking into public cloud

Incentivized

VMware support is typically outstanding, of course, they have multiple departments, and you need to work with the specific teams to get advanced support for things specific to VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery. In contrast, other companies that deal directly with that technology may be more responsive to those specifics. Typically VMware is excellent and helpful in critical outages. For smaller to medium issues, it can take some time to get addressed appropriately.

Incentivized

VMware is software and typically hardware agnostic, this does require extra design and consideration versus putting in backup appliances. Some other solutions are a software as well and can be layered on top of vSphere to enhance existing environments. We need to weigh the benefits of licensing versus software costs and the management cost of having multiple tools.

Incentivized

• Requires running vSphere at target DR sites
• Potential licensing cost for cold/standby locations

Incentivized