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Overall experience with Site Recovery Manager
“It is a good tool to automate the tasks of the Disaster Recovery Plan, however the high ex”
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Performance of Site Recovery Manager Across Market Features
Site Recovery Manager Likes & Dislikes
Fast failover procedures, Test possibilities without disruption to production environments Scalable access lists to grant permissions to various users
The positive of the tool is the possibility of automating the tasks to move from main site to contingency site
Its seamless integration with vSphere. As I already said in the overall experience, being spared of changing hundreds of IPs configuration by hand is a must and SRM does it (albeit with some bugs). Its ability to test the recovery plans without impacting production is a very welcome feature. And last but not least, it support for storage array replication.
cost. actually is not affordable for medium enterprise size. Broadcom's commercial policies are killing medium and small businesses Eventually, SRM hangs on storage management Manual VM replica
The negative aspect of the tool is that the high time required to synchronize the main site and the contingency site does not allow testing
Occasionally, VM IP changes fail, requiring manual interventios en each affected VM. This manual process is time-consuming and unacceptable during a disaster recovery scenario.
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Site Recovery Manager Reviews and Ratings
- It Services Associate50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
SRM Enables Large Scale Failover but Faces Criticism Over Cost and Reliability
SRM set the standard for our Disaster recovery activities, this product allowed us to perform a full failover of nearly 300 virtual machines when needed. a little tricky to setup correctly with our storage providers - IT MANAGER50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Ensure Business Continuity with VMware SRM
SRM is an excelent tool, that addresses nearly all of our disaster recovery needs. Its management console is straightforward and easy to navegate. The ability to modify VM IP addresses is of utmost importance to us since our data centers operate on separate IP segmens. However, this very feature has brought us several headaches (aka bugs). Therefore I consider it as one of the weakest points of the product. - Senior System Administrator50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Easy to install, Easy to use, Easy Disaster Recovery.
Site Recovery Manager revolutionized the way disaster recovery plan were designed and executed. This involves 2 simple steps: Protection & Recovery. Also the Test option is perfect whenever you want to check the protected vm's and functionality are ok. - IT MANAGERGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Vmware SRM experience
We had a good experience with using SRM between our primary and DR site. - Network And Security Engineer50M-1B USDTravel and HospitalityReview Source
Use and Integration of SRM
We have been using the product for about 4 years to back up the important servers of our company. SRM undertakes a very important task in disaster situations. Our company conducts various tests for emergencies with SRM every year and SRM gives very good results. You don't need to be an expert for the product. Because the product is very easy to use and integrate.

