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HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery [EOL] vs VMware Live Recovery 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

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
VMware Live Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
SuhailAkhtar - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd
Has enabled seamless VM management and automated failover while support response needs improvement
For support issues, they help with the issue, but it takes a very long time. The reason is that they engage a very initial resource and then escalate to another level, and during these level escalations, our time is wasted. They do not understand the severity of the issue. They go through step-by-step and then go to the upper level. This may be their SOP, but we require instant support and instant resolution of the problem, so here VMware Live Recovery is lacking. They follow their SOP, but they initially engage very low-level personnel who are not able to answer or resolve the issue, so they escalate or take a very long time to resolve the issue. The main issue is to improve the approach of resolving solutions. I may not be able to suggest new features because in these recent months, I have not been very close to it as we are exploring different solutions.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features are simplicity and that recovery can take a few seconds."
"It is quite good on ROI and year on year it is about 50%."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The stability is great, there are no bugs or glitches, it does not crash or freeze, and it is reliable."
"Initial set-up was straightforward."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The stability of the solution is great, as we've tested the system and haven't discovered any bugs."
"The simplicity of VMware SRM is one of its most important features. SRM console is straightforward to manage. It offers simplicity in monitoring, managing, and deploying, making it a unique value proposition. Additionally, Nutanix solutions also provide a simple GUI, which helps in operational efficiency."
"The disaster recovery has been good; in the case of a disaster, the product is very simple, we have security and lower downtime, and it's very reliable."
 

Cons

"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."
"I would like to have the ability to deploy the appliances and protect some VMs on the cloud."
"I personally will not continue using the VMware SRM solution."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery could improve by enhancing the network bandwidth from the storage."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"When starting up the replication and converting it to the virtual machine I had some problems. I had to start the process again and that is inconvenient."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"The cost of SRM is a little bit high, especially for smaller companies."
"The level of licensing required for this solution is dependent on the server instances in use."
"VMware SRM is an expensive solution, and users need to pay extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
"We pay a yearly licensing fee for VMware SRM, which is not very expensive."
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight to nine out of ten."
"VMware sells in bundles of 50 VMs, so if we want to expand, we have to buy the whole bundle."
"The licensing costs for the product are perpetual in nature. A person needs to buy the license only once there is a need to buy support on a yearly basis. The licensing cost for VMware SRM is expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise40
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
We have been using VMware Live Recovery since 2015, and most of our effort relies on it. I personally feel that it is very easy to use, easy to manage, and provides many features compared to other ...
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
For support issues, they help with the issue, but it takes a very long time. The reason is that they engage a very initial resource and then escalate to another level, and during these level escala...
What is your primary use case for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
We are the partner as well as the integrator, and we mostly work in the integration industry. Integration is our core business, but we also do partnership activities. Most of our projects are based...
 

Also Known As

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VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM
 

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Sample Customers

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Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON
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