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Azure Site Recovery vs HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 12, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
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Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)
HPE GreenLake for Disaster ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AP
IT Manager at NTT DATA
Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions
There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. 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 you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.
Wayne Cross - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of cyber security at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Identifies additional capacity and automates onboarding
I think HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery is doing a good job overall, but there's room for improvement. It should pay more attention to different business models. As a law firm, our requirements differ greatly from those of insurance companies or banks. Our timelines and capacity recovery needs are unique. The solution should create specific verticals focused on contracts that suit our environment. The concept is great, but the execution could be better for the legal vertical. For example, when we need capacity, it usually takes too long to get it. This might be okay for banks or insurance companies, but it's too slow for a law firm. The tool needs to understand how different industries work and what drives our specific requirements.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."
"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"We looked at Dell EMC but I think we went with Site Recovery because it fits better with cloud and they're moving a lot of their workload to cloud like Azure, and want something that is seamlessly integrated."
"The most valuable feature of HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery for us is its ability to identify when we need additional capacity and automate onboarding. Our law firm's data needs can be unpredictable, so the tool's management of long-term data capacity strategies is crucial. They monitor when we reach around 80 percent capacity and ensure that additional capacity is provided within the required time frame, which is important for us."
"The most valuable features are simplicity and that recovery can take a few seconds."
"I now have one portal where I can manage my servers, my storage, my networking, and also my data protection and disaster recovery. It is now all integrated into one portal."
 

Cons

"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There have been issues with replication. It would be helpful if error logging was handled more effectively."
"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."
"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"Improvement could be made on the pricing model. It could be brought in line with the competitive ranges in the market."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"I would like to have the ability to deploy the appliances and protect some VMs on the cloud."
"In HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery, until now, if I remember well, there is only VMware to VMware. Recently, they added Azure, but it does not have the full flexibility yet for it to go from anywhere to anywhere. There is room for improvement."
"I think HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery is doing a good job overall, but there's room for improvement. It should pay more attention to different business models. As a law firm, our requirements differ greatly from those of insurance companies or banks. Our timelines and capacity recovery needs are unique."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"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."
"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."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"They have a license to pay."
"Pricing is straightforward. The thresholds are well documented, so you know exactly where your tiers are. The price is very clear if you decide to go for a certain capacity. The pricing is also clear if you want to move to the next threshold. So that aspect is very straightforward and not an issue."
"It is not cheap, but it is much more cost-efficient compared to Zerto because the entry point of the number of VMs to be protected is lower compared to Zerto. It is more interesting to get started with GreenLake for Disaster Recovery because of the lower entry price point."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
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Questions from the Community

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.
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...
What is your primary use case for Azure Site Recovery?
My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery?
It is not cheap, but it is much more cost-efficient compared to Zerto because the entry point of the number of VMs to be protected is lower compared to Zerto. It is more interesting to get started ...
What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery?
It satisfies my needs because I am using VMware to VMware. It is using Zerto technology in the backend, and knowing that with Zerto, you can go from any cloud to any cloud or on-premises VMware. Yo...
What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery?
I use it for disaster recovery needs. I have a main data center and then another disaster recovery site, which is technically one server to protect my mission-critical VMs.
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
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