VMware, Inc.

VMware Live Recovery

7.5 /10

What is VMware Live Recovery?

Discover the industry-leading disaster recovery software to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non- disruptive testing and automated orchestration.

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Awards & Recognition

VMware Live Recovery won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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0 Top Rated Features

2023

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3 Top Rated Features

2022

VMware Live Recovery Ratings

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82 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love VMware Live Recovery?

0% Negative

17% Neutral

83% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Respectful
Reliable
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Virtual Machine Backup

Replication for High Availability

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Backup Automation

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Deduplication Implementation

Analytics

Integration With Storage Arrays

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

VMware Live Recovery Reviews

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Effective tool for site recovery

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Uchenna K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Features disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates VMware Live Recovery from other similar products?

No difference.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ability to replication across site using minimal bandwidth

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of improvement

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Might not meet you full expection has other product can do better than SRM

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Respectful
Client's Interest First

Sheryl B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Simple as pie: the recovery of the site

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates VMware Live Recovery from other similar products?

We have been making regular backups of our most important servers with the assistance of this product for close to a year now. In times of crisis, SRM is tasked with performing an extremely vital function. Every year, at our business, we use SRM to carry out a variety of emergency preparedness drills, and we have found that using SRM yields very positive results. You do not need to be an industry professional to use the product. We were able to initiate the replication process for a few of the virtual application servers that house some of our most important business data with relatively little delay. The Vsphere REplication section.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

VMWare helped us regain faith in backups after we had some very frustrating experiences in the past. Simple to manage and troubleshoot in the event of any problem. Just one click is all it takes to failover or failback.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Should you shut down your appliances or vmotion, you will receive instructions or recommendations on how to patch. Offer better understanding on DR (target) storage DRS or not to DRS, etc. There might be a problem with the vReplication. its all.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We use the 17 server license for our environment, which allows us to accommodate all of our critical business systems for disaster recovery and business continuity. The cost of the license was manageable within our financial constraints. Must-have tool if your company requires you to failover your virtual machines to a disaster recovery site and provide valid testing and real-time numbers. Setting up a test process and walk-thru is probably the most difficult part of this process. The office of our Vice President is consistently taken aback by how effortlessly we are able to pass the annual examinations.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

VMware Live Recovery

What is VMware Live Recovery?

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Awards & Recognition

VMware Live Recovery Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love VMware Live Recovery?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Replication for High Availability Beyond secondary copy backup, the solution also manages replication of primary data host-to-host and site-to-site for live failover and high availability.

Backup Monitoring and Reporting Backup and replication are continually monitored for status and effectiveness. Detailed reporting is available on successful and unsuccessful operations.

Automated Backup Testing and Verification Goes beyond monitoring whether backup jobs completed by verifying the integrity of data restoration.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Analytics Built-in real-time and historical reporting and analytics on SLAs, performance, and resource consumption, as well as predictive capabilities to plan & optimize.

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms Backs up data and system info for non-virtualized systems. Primarily Windows and Linux servers but also, potentially, AIX, Unix and others.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

VMware Live Recovery Reviews

Effective tool for site recovery

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Uchenna K.

Features disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sheryl B.

Simple as pie: the recovery of the site

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Deduplication Implementation

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Integration With Storage Arrays

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

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