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VMware SRM

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What is VMware SRM?

VMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

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What is VMware SRM?

VMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

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Product Details

What is VMware SRM?

VMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

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Reviews and Ratings

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Easy Configuration and Execution: Reviewers have found VMWare SRM to be very easy to configure and execute, even for those who are not virtualization experts. This indicates that the product offers a user-friendly interface and does not require extensive technical knowledge to set up.

Multiple Protection Groups and Recovery Plans: Several users mentioned the helpfulness of having multiple protection groups and recovery plans in VMWare SRM. This feature allows users to implement recovery priorities and partial or full site recovery based on their specific needs, providing greater control over their disaster recovery processes.

Automated Replication Management: Users appreciate the automated replication management in VMWare SRM. The software takes care of replication from the failover site to the old primary site without requiring any additional tasks, making the disaster recovery process streamlined and time-saving.

Expensive Licensing: Many users have expressed concerns about the high cost of VMWare's licensing, particularly for those who only have a small number of virtual machines. They feel that the pricing is not justified by the value they receive.

Difficulty in Resolving Support Tickets: Several users have faced challenges when trying to get their support tickets resolved by VMWare support. This has led to frustration and delays in problem resolution, impacting their overall experience with the product.

Quality of Products and Technical Support Teams: Users are disappointed with the declining quality of VMWare's products and technical support teams. They believe that there has been a significant degradation in both areas over time.

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November 29, 2018

Easy Peasy Site Recovery

Ravinder Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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We are currently hosting around 80 VMs on Production Site vCenter and 120 VMs on Non-Production Site vCenter. We use SRM to perform our bi-yearly disaster recovery drills for the virtual layer. We have been extremely please with the ease of configuring SRM and performing site recovery. Initially, we hired an SRM expert to do the job for us, but now our system admins are also able to perform the site recovery.
We have used VMware Site Recovery Manager for both failover and failback exercises without any issues. I like the way we can create multiple protection groups to facilitate recovery of virtual machines based on priority.
  • Ease of configuration. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn how VMWare SRM is configured and executed.
  • Creation of multiple protection groups and recovery plans helps implementing recovery priority and partial/full site recovery as required.
  • No additional tasks for managing replication. SRM takes care of replication from failover site to old primary site automatically.
  • I am not very pleased with the overall licensing cost. It's pretty expensive. Especially if you have a small number of VMs, you are paying a lot.
  • We had a little struggle getting our support tickets resolved by VMWare support.
It's quite well suited for a medium to large size VMWare virtualization infrastructure where your production infrastructure can be failed over to a disaster recovery site. There are other cheaper options for a smaller budget business. Also, for a non mission critical virtual infrastructure, you can simply use VM backups such as Veeam backups for restoring failed VMs.
  • Our overall ROI seems to be pretty good, as ease of using VMWare SRM has helped us reducing cost of hiring separate virtualization experts. The task is being performed by our System Admins.
  • SRM steps execution was pretty smooth in our DR exercise. This has helped us achieve our RPO and RTO well under contracted limits.
Veeam Backup & Replication is slower than VMWare SRM and doesn't suits our RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
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  • Creation of Protection Groups and Recovery Plan
  • Creation of SRM Plan
  • Execution of failover and failback
  • Execution of cleanup after an unsuccessful failover
VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
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