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Nutanix Disaster Recovery vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

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

Nutanix Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Live Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 7.5%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Celso Toledo - PeerSpot reviewer
A reliable and scalable solution that can be used to ensure workloads are replicated when needed
A couple of years back, our data center was located in Fort Lauderdale, known as Hurricane Alley. We would swing our workloads or production data center into our Dallas data center from July the first until the whole hurricane season. Once hurricane season was done, we would swing everything back to South Florida on November the first. Currently, we have a state-of-the-art data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Since it is a location with no hurricanes, we've got less movement from a failing-over perspective. From a compliance perspective, we need to show our compliance partners that we can cut over a data center should we need to and run out of a different data center somewhere else. This is necessary for compliance, insurance, and HIPAA compliance.
Yosevan Sinaga Sinaga - PeerSpot reviewer
The capability and the functionality of the features are very helpful for us
We use VMware Live Recovery for creating new hosts and new servers. We synchronize all of our software from our data center to our co-location in real time, so when a disaster happens, we switch to the co-location The functionality of the features is helpful for us. We find the resource…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is straightforward and easy."
"The product is very simple and very easy to use."
"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."
"Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the local storage solution, which significantly boosts performance, especially when transitioning from traditional architecture."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the reliability and scalability of being able to swing our workloads across the country."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"Its capability to schedule, write and configure the recovery and scheduled steps, such that you don't have to come in and start manually trying to recover the entire machine. You just push a button to recover the VMware and everything is done."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"Every feature is quite good, and we haven't faced any issues or complaints."
 

Cons

"The solution should include a standard license for the object level and file level."
"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."
"The product must allow users to create a production domain on the main site in one hypervisor and a backup site on another."
"The dashboard could be a bit refreshed, and some configuration parts could be less confusing."
"The major issue with Nutanix is its appliance-based model, which can lead to vendor lock-in."
"The solution's bandwidth utilization can be improved further."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The licensing area needs improvement as the cost per virtual machine is high. If they offered discounts or minimized their prices, it would be more beneficial."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"It has a lot of dependencies on VMware infrastructure, and testing can be complex. Testing often requires extensive approval at the organizational level."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"The infrastructure of the solution needs to be more software-based"
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is good."
"Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
"VMware SRM is a little bit pricey."
"After Broadcom acquired the solution, the licensing cost increased drastically"
"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight to nine out of ten."
"The licensing costs are increasing."
"It is reasonably priced, and its cost hasn't been a significant factor in our implementation."
"There is an annual license to use this solution."
"The pricing is good."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
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
Computer Software Company
25%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
University
10%
Mining And Metals Company
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery.
What needs improvement with Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
I usually discuss improvements with my team who handle on-site deployments, and I plan to gather their insights. However, currently, there is nothing significant lacking in the solution as per my t...
What is your primary use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?
The primary use case of Nutanix Disaster Recovery ( /products/nutanix-disaster-recovery-reviews ) is to prevent the infrastructure from a major catastrophic failure at the primary site. If the prim...
What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
We use a three-year license, and the cost for VMware Live Recovery can be high. Previously, when acquiring a license for Ethiopian drug supply chains, the price was significantly high, especially a...
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
The licensing area needs improvement as the cost per virtual machine is high. If they offered discounts or minimized their prices, it would be more beneficial.
 

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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