Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud vs NetApp Disaster Recovery

Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud provides disaster recovery as a service, launching recovery servers at a secondary site after a natural or man-made disaster. Recovery infrastructure can be managed in Acronis Cloud, Microsoft Azure or a hybrid setup. It supports production failover and automated test failover, including scheduled monthly server tests, while runbooks define steps for starting a client’s production environment in the cloud. The service can extend up to 23 local networks through a secure VPN tunnel or connect in cloud-only mode without a VPN appliance. Listed workloads include Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, major Linux distributions, and several virtualization platforms. Acronis says clean recovery points can help prevent ransomware reinfection. Cloud servers consume compute points according to configured flavor even when powered off; recovery servers in Standby do not. If the compute-points quota overage is reached, primary and recovery servers shut down. There is no free plan; a 30-day trial is available. Pricing depends on usage and licensing, with no dollar price listed.

NetApp Disaster Recovery coordinates replication, failover, and failback for VMware virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters between source and recovery sites. It uses NetApp ONTAP SnapMirror to keep application-consistent Snapshot copies synchronized; asynchronous replication can support a recovery point objective as low as five minutes. Teams can conduct nondisruptive failover tests using temporary virtual machines and FlexClone volumes. VMware recovery targets include on-premises environments, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and Amazon Elastic VMware Service. Kubernetes recovery supports on-premises NFS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel, and recovery from on premises to AWS using NFS or iSCSI. The service runs within the NetApp Console SaaS environment and uses a Console agent in a cloud or private on-premises network. Its intelligent proxy communicates over HTTPS on port 443 without requiring a VPN or direct internet access. Licensing is based on used capacity on protected source ONTAP volumes, not virtual machine or application count. A free trial is listed, but plan prices are not provided.