VSOM is a great product for virtual machine migration to a disaster recovery site.
January 10, 2019
VSOM is a great product for virtual machine migration to a disaster recovery site.
Overall Satisfaction with vSphere with Operations Management (VSOM)
Our department used Vsphere Operations Management as a solution for disaster recovery in our environment. It was only used by a few people here on our staff. This did solve our plans for server recovery in a way that is automated. It basically scripts the powering on of replicated virtual machines into a different network.
- The best thing about VSOM is that it's built into VCenter so you only have one point of administration
- VSOM does a great job of making applications intuitive
- Re-IPing virtual machines are a must and VSOM does a great job of making this a simple process
- The installation of VSOM is very tedious
- It uses an MS SQL database
- It should be able to adjust for hardware modifications in VCenter
- In the case of a disaster, the ROI would be substantial.
- The license for VSOM is pretty expensive initially.
- Support for VSOM is terrific.
- Veeam Backup & Replication and Cohesity
vSphere with Operations Management has a much better way of automating the re-IPing of servers so you can stand them up in a different environment or location. You do, however, need another way of replicating your servers to your DR site, VSOM will not do that. We used EMC Recover Point for replication.