VMware Site Recovery Manager Customer Reviews 2023

What is VMware Site Recovery Manager?

Discover the industry-leading disaster recovery software to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non- disruptive testing and automated orchestration.

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Awards & Recognition

VMware Site Recovery Manager won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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VMware Site Recovery Manager Ratings

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+81 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love VMware Site Recovery Manager?

0% Negative

19% Neutral

81% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Reliable
Respectful
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

90

Virtual Machine Backup

88

Replication for High Availability

87

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

84

Integration With Storage Arrays

84

Analytics

84

Backup of Cloud Based Data

84

Backup Automation

84

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

83

Deduplication Implementation

83

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

80

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of IT Administration

91

Ease of Customization

87

Availability and Quality of Training

85

Breadth of Features

81

Business Value Created

79

Usability and Intuitiveness

78

Ease of Implementation

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

77

Quality of Features

76

Vendor Support

71

Ease of Data Integration

69

VMware Site Recovery Manager Reviews

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Effective tool for site recovery

Likeliness to Recommend

9 / 10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Uchenna K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Features disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

7 / 10

What differentiates VMware Site Recovery Manager from other similar products?

No difference.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ability to replication across site using minimal bandwidth

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of improvement

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Might not meet you full expection has other product can do better than SRM

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Respectful
Client's Interest First

Sheryl B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Simple as pie: the recovery of the site

Likeliness to Recommend

8 / 10

What differentiates VMware Site Recovery Manager from other similar products?

We have been making regular backups of our most important servers with the assistance of this product for close to a year now. In times of crisis, SRM is tasked with performing an extremely vital function. Every year, at our business, we use SRM to carry out a variety of emergency preparedness drills, and we have found that using SRM yields very positive results. You do not need to be an industry professional to use the product. We were able to initiate the replication process for a few of the virtual application servers that house some of our most important business data with relatively little delay. The Vsphere REplication section.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

VMWare helped us regain faith in backups after we had some very frustrating experiences in the past. Simple to manage and troubleshoot in the event of any problem. Just one click is all it takes to failover or failback.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Should you shut down your appliances or vmotion, you will receive instructions or recommendations on how to patch. Offer better understanding on DR (target) storage DRS or not to DRS, etc. There might be a problem with the vReplication. its all.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We use the 17 server license for our environment, which allows us to accommodate all of our critical business systems for disaster recovery and business continuity. The cost of the license was manageable within our financial constraints. Must-have tool if your company requires you to failover your virtual machines to a disaster recovery site and provide valid testing and real-time numbers. Setting up a test process and walk-thru is probably the most difficult part of this process. The office of our Vice President is consistently taken aback by how effortlessly we are able to pass the annual examinations.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

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Awards & Recognition

VMware Site Recovery Manager Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+81 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love VMware Site Recovery Manager?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Automated Backup Testing and Verification Goes beyond monitoring whether backup jobs completed by verifying the integrity of data restoration.

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Replication for High Availability Beyond secondary copy backup, the solution also manages replication of primary data host-to-host and site-to-site for live failover and high availability.

Backup Monitoring and Reporting Backup and replication are continually monitored for status and effectiveness. Detailed reporting is available on successful and unsuccessful operations.

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

Analytics Built-in real-time and historical reporting and analytics on SLAs, performance, and resource consumption, as well as predictive capabilities to plan & optimize.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms Backs up data and system info for non-virtualized systems. Primarily Windows and Linux servers but also, potentially, AIX, Unix and others.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

VMware Site Recovery Manager Reviews

Effective tool for site recovery

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Uchenna K.

Features disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sheryl B.

Simple as pie: the recovery of the site

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Virtual Machine Backup

Replication for High Availability

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Integration With Storage Arrays

Analytics

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Backup Automation

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Deduplication Implementation

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration