Velero vs. VMware Site Recovery Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Velero
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Velero is an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.N/A
VMware SRM
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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.N/A
Pricing
VeleroVMware Site Recovery Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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VeleroVMware SRM
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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VeleroVMware Site Recovery Manager
User Ratings
VeleroVMware Site Recovery Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.3
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10.0
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
VeleroVMware Site Recovery Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
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SRM is a must-have tool if your business requires you to failover your VMs to a disaster recovery site and provide valid testing and real-time numbers. Our VP office is always amazed at how easily we are able to satisfy our annual testing and show actual results with time stamps and the sequence of each VM that is up and running. SRM may not be needed in a very small business that does not have the capacity nor the need to have their infrastructure off site in a form of a disaster recovery site.
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Pros
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  • Easy to build a recovery plan
  • Easy to test recovery plans
  • Works with storage based replication or non storage based replication
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Cons
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  • 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.
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- easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
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Usability
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VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
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Support Rating
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Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
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Alternatives Considered
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Veeam Backup & Replication is slower than VMWare SRM and doesn't suits our RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
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Return on Investment
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  • The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
  • We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
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