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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.
VMware SRM - the must-have tool for disaster recovery
Easy Peasy Site Recovery
SRM - not what it used to be...
A good choice for a 100% VMware environments.
Automated Disaster Recovery
DR Automation 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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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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(1-4 of 4)VMware SRM - the must-have tool for disaster recovery
- Easy configuration and setup.
- Testing of a particular VM or datastore with several VMs is easy.
- Auto configuration of IPs makes the process even easier.
- The upgrade process can use a little fine tuning.
- The use of SRM being on an appliance instead of only running on Windows is needed as well.
SRM may not be needed in a very small business that does not have the capacity nor the need to have their infrastructure off site in a form of a disaster recovery site.
- Satisfy Audits
- Saved money on not having to have everything in the cloud.
SRM - not what it used to be...
- Easy to build a recovery plan
- Easy to test recovery plans
- Works with storage based replication or non storage based replication
- It’s unfortunate, but more and more, the quality of VMware’s products and the technical support teams behind them has degraded significantly. We have opened several support requests within the last few months and ended up resolving a large majority ourselves due to the poor performance of their remote teams.
- VMware is suffering from the same illness that’s affecting multiple U.S. technology firms, in that their focus has shifted completely away from their customers and moved to pleasing investors. In doing so, clients suffer because they do not get properly tested products and the support teams behind them are very weak and overwhelmed.
- We worked close to a month trying to get SRM V6.5 to work. We have worked with many previous versions of SRM in the past while using HP EVAs, NetApps and Hitachi arrays, and we can honestly say that we are greatly disappointed with this release and the company.
- We escalated right up to engineering, but their response times were brutally slow; the technicians were juniors at best.
- As a technology leader, the last thing you want during a DR is to be dealing with a company that just can't deliver. SRM is not cheap, and you would expect much better products and support from VMware.
- If you are comparing products, try other companies like Veeam... We ended up using them instead, the setup and execution was easy and seamless, and they answered all our questions quickly and efficiently. They actually do care about their clients.
- Due to the very poor experiences we had with the setup and their support teams, I would not recommend it.
DR Automation with VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Very easy to set up disaster recovery.
- Easy to manage and troubleshoot any issue.
- One click to failover and failback.
- Data sync is live and very consistent.
- Pre-configuration of DR IP so after failover all VMs automatically bring up new IPs, no further configuration required.
- Excellent VMware support in case of any failure.
- Disaster recovery set up and configuration can be verified by running tests in test mode and capture the test results.
- Priority level, server dependencies can be pre-configured.
- Missing plug-in in VI Client.
- Better customer service.
- Employees actually like to work on VMware Site Recovery manager and are very happy to see the overall out come.
- Storage Level replication and manual failover /failback
- Storage admins
- Disaster recovery
- Easy to move workloads to DR site in case of hardware maintenance
- point in time snapshot base replication, less chance of data loss and corruption
- we use script for IP customization and DNS update for Linux VMs
- Manual failover workload by mounting storage Lun snapshot and make it read/write on DR site
- easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
SRM - a newbies point of view
- Ability to start servers in stages based on dependencies (DNS, DHCP, DC's first, database servers 2nd, applications 3rd, etc)
- Ability to test failover in a "bubble network" Validate that the process does work in a controlled environment.
- The ability to fail back is crucial. SRM has addressed this issue with its recovery plan policies.
- Using self signed certs offer constant reconnections to remote devices.
- Instruction or recommendations on how to patch, should you shutdown appliances or vmotion. Offer better understanding on DR (target) storage DRS or not to DRS, etc. This may be a vReplication issue.
- Improve integration where vCenter service reboots are reduced or eliminated "Not Connected to SRM server" from vCenter to SRM error message "getAttribute: Session already invalidated".
- The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
- We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
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