Azure Site Recovery vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

Microsoft and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (9th)

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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ClaudioSalgado

IT Architect Consultant at RTFM

Offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites

It offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots. It allows for automated VM protection during processes like failover and testing, and it offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites. It also provides IP address management when network configurations differ across sites.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."

"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

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"Continuous replication with lower RTO and RPO is the most innovative feature. Its tight integration with VMware for VMware VMs is also valuable."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

"The installation is straightforward if the version you have is compatible with your infrastructure."

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to change IP addresses when failing a server over."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."

"The technical support from Dell is excellent."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

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Cons

"It could include more of a backup and recovery."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

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"It should have features for recovering a group of virtual machines and full-scale security. For recovering all the VMs at once, they don't have a GUI option, and we have to use the command line."

"The solution's technical team has enough skills, but the process can get complicated with the time you get connected with the L3 support."

"I would like to see integration with EMC NetWorker in the next release."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."

"The configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."

"In some cases, the response times could improve, but we haven't had issues with their support."

"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"They have a license to pay."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"This is an expensive product."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 39% of the time

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Compared 27% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

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July 2025

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