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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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Easy Configuration and Execution: Reviewers have found VMWare SRM to be very easy to configure and execute, even for those who are not …
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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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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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VMware Site Recovery Manager has been used to set up disaster recovery on all Tier 1 application servers. It is used across the whole organization. It address the issue of any failure or outage on [our] primary data center.
  • 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.
VMs require to club into one ESX cluster for easy set up and disaster recovery, that point I don't like.
  • 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
Automatic vs manual efforts.
Application stack holders , all Tier 1 application servers configured under SRM for disaster recovery.
- VMware admins ,
- 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 set up
- easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
Excellent support provides by VMware , understand the issue and provide quick resolution
VMware provided support to resolve the issue when fail-over stuck and I was unable to cancel that to recover the servers
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