Azure Site Recovery comparisons
Azure Site Recovery is compared head-to-head with Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, VMware Live Site Recovery and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and more: 7 head-to-heads in Disaster Recovery Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Azure Site Recovery head-to-head
- Azure Site Recovery vs Veeam Recovery Orchestrator
- Azure Site Recovery vs VMware Live Site Recovery
- Azure Site Recovery vs AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Azure Site Recovery vs Acronis Disaster Recovery
- Azure Site Recovery vs Zerto
- Azure Site Recovery vs Arcserve Replication and High Availability
- Azure Site Recovery vs Datto SIRIS
Azure Site Recovery vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Failover orchestration | Deployment model | Supported workloads | Failback orchestration | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure Site Recovery | No | Yes | Hybrid | Azure VMs; VMware VMs; Hyper-V VMs; Windows physical servers; Linux physical servers; Azure Stack VMs; AWS Windows instances | Yes | 9.4 | |
| 2 | Veeam Recovery Orchestrator | No | Yes | On-premises | VMware vSphere VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Veeam agent backups, CDP replicas, storage-replicated VMs, Microsoft Azure recovery workloads | Yes | 9.3 | |
| 3 | VMware Live Site Recovery | Yes | Hybrid | virtual machines | Yes | 9.2 | ||
| 4 | AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery | No | $0.03/unit usage-based | No | Hybrid | physical servers, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, other cloud infrastructure, Windows and Linux applications, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, SAP | Yes | 9.0 |
| 5 | Acronis Disaster Recovery | Yes | Hybrid | Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, Linux Server, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Proxmox, Nutanix, Scale Computing, Citrix XenServer | Yes | 9.0 | ||
| 6 | Zerto | No | 8.9 | |||||
| 7 | Arcserve Replication and High Availability | No | Yes | Hybrid | Windows and Linux systems; physical and virtual machines; Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, IIS, Hyper-V, Dynamics CRM, VMware vCenter, Oracle Database, custom applications | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 8 | Datto SIRIS | Yes | Hybrid | Windows Server, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V | Yes | 8.7 |
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