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vsphere replication vs acronis vmprotect 8 replication

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Hi,

I'm wondering which replication I should use (vsphere or vmprotect)? What are the difference between the two?

Thank you,
Aldous

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Hi Aldous,

The vSphere Replication (introduced as a standalone feature in vSphere 5.1) is operating on hypervisor level and continuously synchronizes the source VM with the replica one depending on RTO settings. The replication implemented in Acronis vmProtect is in fact similar to backup where destination is not a backup archive, but replica VM which means that the source VM is snapshotted on demand (basing on user-defined schedule) and this snapshot data is transferred into the replica VM. This means that replication won't be active all times and won't cause impact on the source/target hosts or affects network bandwidth all times as opposed to continuous replication which may generate huge traffic if the source VM is intensively modified and RTO settings are close to 0. In general these 2 replication approaches are significantly different ones and serve different purposes:

If you need short RTO and do not care about the network bandwith (or you know that there are not too many changes done to source VM) between production and recovery sites then vSphere replication is a better choice.
If you need a more controllable process where you can predict the traffic peaks (which will be at replication active times) at cost of slightly worse RTO then vmProtect replication would be a better choice.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager

Go with Vsphere. I have used this over and over. So far, there are no issues and I wanted to keep it that way.