Azure Site Recovery and VMware Live Recovery are competing in disaster recovery solutions. Azure Site Recovery appears to have an edge due to its user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness, whereas VMware excels in integration and flexibility across platforms.
Features: Azure Site Recovery offers features like automated file synchronization, seamless failover, and easy integration with Azure Active Directory. VMware Live Recovery is known for its centralized recovery plans, robust automation features, and flexibility with various environments.
Room for Improvement: Azure Site Recovery could benefit from better pricing predictability, platform integration, and support for non-Azure services. VMware Live Recovery needs improved interface stability, expanded multi-platform support, and enhanced cloud integration.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Site Recovery supports Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and On-premises setups, with generally positive customer service ratings, although some users report delays. VMware Live Recovery focuses on On-premises with strong support but requires smoother integration with cloud and hybrid setups.
Pricing and ROI: Azure Site Recovery offers good value through its automation and affordable pricing for large deployments, despite being complex to navigate. VMware Live Recovery faces criticism for its high cost post-licensing changes, yet it provides robust functionality suitable for enterprise investments.
Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.
Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.
Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.
During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.
Issues frequently require escalation.
They are knowledgeable.
The technical support from VMware is very good and operates based on a service level.
I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.
Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.
Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.
The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.
I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.
If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
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 with other services.
It's important for the cost to be justified based on the features used in production.
I would like to see improved integration services with other solutions, such as SIEM management or security monitoring.
The licensing area needs improvement as the cost per virtual machine is high.
A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site.
It was not the expensive part of our costs.
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.
Previously, when acquiring a license for Ethiopian drug supply chains, the price was significantly high, especially after Broadcom joined VMware.
For cloud-based solutions, the cost seems quite pricey, so we stick to on-premises deployment.
The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature.
In Azure, we can access the services remotely, and we can do DR drills or these other things with minimal cost and resource allocation.
The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.
It is used for data replication between data centers and allows for quick response in times of failure, ensuring data availability.
The solution offers a rich set of features, well adapted in the market.
The capability and the functionality of the features are very helpful for us.
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.
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