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VMware Live Recovery pros and cons

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PROS

VMware Live Recovery offers zero RPO and zero RTO when combined with RecoverPoint.
VMware Live Recovery excels in automation, enabling seamless one-click disaster recovery operations.
VMware Live Recovery integrates effectively with Nutanix, enhancing operational efficiency.
VMware Live Recovery provides reliable replication and migration capabilities across sites.
VMware Live Recovery is consistent and enhances business continuity through automatic failover and failback policies.

CONS

VMware Live Recovery would benefit from improved integration with other storage solutions and third-party vendors.
The pricing is considered high, and the cost structure needs to be justified based on the features utilized in production.
Technical support has been slow in responding and requires significant improvement in responsiveness and quality.
Extensive coordination is required as SRM has to be installed on separate data centers, adding to the complexity of configuration.
There are stability concerns with VMware Live Recovery, especially during heavy capacity, requiring constant monitoring for potential downtime or replication errors.
 

VMware Live Recovery Pros review quotes

it_user165303 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
Nov 25, 2014
We were able to reduce the cost of our overall DR infrastructure while increase our recovery time.
it_user165579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 26, 2014
Very good - we have a DR platform that we've tested with a live production workflow.
it_user166617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 30, 2014
The company was able to provide customers with the required RPO that was not possible with traditional backup solutions.
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it_user166620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 30, 2014
Based on average of downtime cost on DR and how automation can help to bring the business on, SRM can reduce the cost nearly 50 percent; moreover you don’t need to have SAN storage on DR.
it_user174999 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Oct 24, 2015
This product allows organizations to have a solid BC business continuity plan in place in case of disaster.
it_user175035 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 23, 2014
This product makes it easy for us to have a managed DR.
it_user175104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant with 51-200 employees
Dec 23, 2014
Organisations that have implemented SRM in my experience have confidence that their mission critical systems will be recovered within the given SLA in the event of a planned or unplanned availability event.
it_user186366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 27, 2015
Initial set-up was straightforward.
it_user297132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 25, 2015
It is quite good on ROI and year on year it is about 50%.
it_user320220 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 29, 2015
Fast recovery time Ease of use
 

VMware Live Recovery Cons review quotes

it_user165303 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
Nov 25, 2014
I would like to see the database come built-in to the product.
it_user165579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 26, 2014
The setup documentation needs to be improved greatly.
it_user166617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 30, 2014
Customer Service: 3/10, VMware support was not really proficient in the product, as most of the time we would give them the solution.
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it_user166620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Virtualization Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 30, 2014
In my opinion if Vmware added some function to detect the business critical applications like oracle, exchange to help monitor these applications for disaster recovery.
it_user174999 - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Oct 24, 2015
Deployment is fairly straight forward but it still requires a good amount of VMware experience on the architecture side to properly deploy and scale.
it_user175035 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 23, 2014
Automatic guest customizations through a GUI is a missing feature. Also the new version of SRM is web-only and is not that stable as the old client version.
it_user175104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant with 51-200 employees
Dec 23, 2014
Smaller sites or sites with mixed storage platforms rely on vSphere replication for DR purposes so additional scalability in this tool would benefit from this.
it_user186366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 27, 2015
We had a problem connecting to the SRM plug-in.
it_user297132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 25, 2015
It looks good, but synchronization is, sometimes, a problem.
it_user320220 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 29, 2015
Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. It’s just luck of the draw.