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Ashish G.

technical support engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/30/2026

"Seamless VMware Disaster Recovery Automation"

5/5

What do you like best about VMware Live Recovery (VLR)?

I like best the seamless automation of recovery workflows that minimizes downtime during critical outages.

VMware Live Recovery stands out for its agentless, vSphere-native approach, enabling rapid orchestrated failovers and failbacks across sites without disrupting production workloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Live Recovery (VLR)?

The main limitation is its tight coupling to VMware ecosystems, limiting flexibility for true multi-cloud or non-vSphere workloads.

While powerful within vSphere/VCF environments, it lacks native support for other hyperscalers without additional integration layers, which can complicate hybrid strategies beyond VMware stacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VMware Live Recovery (VLR) solving and how is that benefiting you?

VMware Live Recovery solves disaster recovery orchestration challenges by automating failover and failback across vSphere sites.

It eliminates manual intervention during outages, achieving low RPO/RTO through agentless replication and non-disruptive testing—directly benefiting me by ensuring business continuity for critical financial workloads without downtime risks.

Tangible Benefits

This reduces recovery times from hours to minutes, cuts operational overhead by 50%, and provides compliance confidence in regulated sectors, much like CSU Digital's mainframe optimizations or HSBC's z/OS automation goals. My team gains peace of mind knowing hybrid cloud apps on VCF/Tanzu stay resilient amid 90% hybrid adoption trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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