What is VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?
On-Demand Disaster Recovery, Delivered
Accelerated Ransomware Protection and Recovery
Defend against cyber attacks and ransomware by joining this expert deep dive to learn how our solutions deliver IT resiliency at scale.
VMware Cloud DR an outperformer in Disaster Recovery as a Service
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Drive Business Growth With Smarter DR
Protect your data, minimize downtime, and reduce costs with optimized disaster recovery. VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery enables you to optimally assess and balance your technical capabilities in the cloud, making the process more time and cost efficient. Get a tiered approach to disaster recovery (DR) that helps you balance reliable protection and efficient allocation of DR resources.
Flexible Deployment Options
Get the flexibility to choose between deployment options—set up failover capacity 100% on-demand or with minimal footprint.
Optimized Costs
Leverage the elasticity and reliability of cloud to balance effective DR operations and optimized IT resource allocation to achieve up to 60% lower TCO.
Easy-to-Use
Get DR that’s SaaS-simple. Use a consistent operating experience on-premises and in the cloud with automated failover and failback.
Features
Pilot Light
Provision a small failover footprint capacity in the cloud and scale on-demand.
Detailed DR Reports
Provide proof that DR plans are being tested and executed correctly.
Instant Power-On
Easily roll out new infrastructure and applications with minimal training.
Delta-based Failback
Minimize failback cloud egress charges and optimize DR operational costs.
Immutable Snapshots
Protect your data from malware thanks to a deep history of immutable snapshots.
Continuous DR Health Checks
DR health checks are automatically run every 30 minutes for increased reliability.
Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Transformation
Use Cases
Ensure confident recovery from ransomware with a plan that rapidly restores your critical applications and supports your resiliency strategy. With VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, address ransomware by quickly and efficiently identifying your point of recovery to run rapid recovery point validations. In addition, ensure DR readiness by simplifying operations and testing your plans frequently.
Ransomware Recovery
Ensure confident recovery from ransomware with a plan that rapidly restores your critical applications and supports your resiliency strategy. With VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, address ransomware by quickly and efficiently identifying your point of recovery to run rapid recovery point validations. In addition, ensure DR readiness by simplifying operations and testing your plans frequently.
Modern Infrastructure
Accelerate cloud adoption by modernizing your DR infrastructure. Get even faster disaster recovery with on-demand failover capacity that eliminates the need to maintain a secondary DR site. With a familiar, consistent VMware operating experience on-premises and in the cloud, you won't need to retrain teams or disrupt operations.
Drive Business Growth with DRaaS
Maximize ROI through a tiered approach to DR—optimize DR costs by tuning SLAs and TCO to match application requirements. With a SaaS-based managed offering, you can leverage cloud economics with no hardware investment or lifecycle management. Plus, empower audit-ready DR through automated reporting of testing, failover and failback operations.
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery just works. I don’t lose sleep over our ransomware recovery capability. My inbox lights up about other issues, but not about this. It’s nice to not be too concerned about workload protection anymore.
Greg Morrissey, It Manager
With VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, VMware users finally have a true DR option that works automatically and on-demand, regardless of the complexity of their environment.
- Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst
Related Resources
Stay Informed
Keep up with the latest product enhancements and resiliency industry insights.
Setting Up a DR Plan
Learn how to build and implement your DR plans.
Testing Your DR Plans
Test your disastery recovery plans frequently and without disruption.
Related Products
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VMware Cloud on AWS
Consistent vSphere-based infrastructure delivered on AWS
VMware Site Recovery
On-demand disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
Site Recovery Manager
Disaster recovery for private cloud
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is priced as a combination of a per-TiB charge based on the protected storage capacity and per VM charge based on the number of protected disaster recovery VMs (total price = $/TiB + $/VM). Additionally, you can purchase VMware Ransomware Recovery feature as an add-on to the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery service. The service is available on-demand or as a 1-year or 3-year subscription with a minimum charge of 10 TiB. Pricing includes production support.
Egress data charges incurred during typical use of the service for replication to the cloud and failback to the original protected site are covered by the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery prices listed below. VMware reserves the right to bill you for additional charges corresponding to excessive egress data transfers. Please see the FAQ for more details. VMware Cloud on AWS host charges are not included. You have the option to purchase new host subscriptions, use existing host subscriptions, or pay for hosts on-demand.
Egress data charges incurred during typical use of the service for replication to the cloud and failback to the original protected site are covered by the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery prices listed below. VMware reserves the right to bill you for additional charges corresponding to excessive egress data transfers. Please see the FAQ for more details. VMware Cloud on AWS host charges are not included. You have the option to purchase new host subscriptions, use existing host subscriptions, or pay for hosts on-demand.
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| Protected Capacity The sum of the logical (i.e. used) storage size of the protected virtual machines and all the incremental cloud backups you choose to retain. | List Price / TiB | Effective Monthly | Savings vs. On-Demand |
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| On-Demand (hourly) On-demand usage is metered hourly and billed monthly in arrears | |||
| 1-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate | |||
| 3-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate |
Protected Capacity The sum of the logical (i.e. used) storage size of the protected virtual machines and all the incremental cloud backups you choose to retain.
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| Protected VM The number of virtual machines being replicated using the service (regardless of whether the virtual machines are currently powered on in the recovery site). | List Price / VM | Effective Monthly | Savings vs. On-Demand |
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| On-Demand (hourly) On-demand usage is metered hourly and billed monthly in arrears | |||
| 1-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate | |||
| 3-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate |
Protected VM The number of virtual machines being replicated using the service (regardless of whether the virtual machines are currently powered on in the recovery site).
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| Protected Ransomware Recovery VM The number of virtual machines in a ransomware recovery-activated DR plan being replicated using the VCDR service (regardless of whether the virtual machines are currently powered on in the recovery site) | List Price / VM | Effective Monthly | Savings vs. On-Demand |
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| On-Demand (hourly) On-demand usage is metered hourly and billed monthly in arrears | |||
| 1-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate | |||
| 3-year Subscription Subscription is billed upfront and any hourly metered usage not covered by the subscriptions will be billed monthly in arrears at the on-demand rate |
Protected Ransomware Recovery VM The number of virtual machines in a ransomware recovery-activated DR plan being replicated using the VCDR service (regardless of whether the virtual machines are currently powered on in the recovery site)
Frequently Asked Questions
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is an easy-to-use, on-demand disaster recovery (DR) solution, delivered as SaaS, with cloud economics.
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