Easy Peasy Site Recovery
November 29, 2018
Easy Peasy Site Recovery
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with VMware Site Recovery Manager
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.
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.
- 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
Veeam Backup & Replication is slower than VMWare SRM and doesn't suits our RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
VMware SRM Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Using VMware SRM
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Creation of Protection Groups and Recovery Plan
- Creation of SRM Plan
- Execution of failover and failback
- Execution of cleanup after an unsuccessful failover