Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager vs Unitrends Backup

Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) coordinates virtual-machine recovery across paired Awanio Cockpit sites. Administrators enroll VMs for scheduled disk replication and set the recovery site, datastore, RPO, recovery-point retention, and traffic compression. The initial sync copies the full disk; later syncs transfer changed blocks. Recovery plans arrange workloads into ordered runbooks with priority groups and boot delays, then replicate as read-only copies to the recovery site. DRM supports isolated test failover, planned migration, emergency failover, reprotection, and failback. During a test, a workload copy boots in an isolated network while production remains untouched. Emergency failover uses the latest completed recovery point, so newer data may be lost. A deployment needs two sites, each with Cockpit and at least one Vapor host, administrator access to both, and connectivity on ports 7770, 7771, and 7772. Orchestrated recovery also requires the Disaster Recovery entitlement at both sites and a DRM license or active trial. Pricing is on request; the time-limited trial permits a small number of protected workloads.

Unitrends Backup is backup and recovery software delivered as a virtual appliance for protecting data on premises and in public clouds. It deploys on VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV, and can also be deployed in AWS EC2. Its 30-day trial provides the Enterprise Plus version on VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Nutanix AHV. Recovery options include Instant Recovery and replicas for near-zero local recovery time objectives; the cloud disaster recovery offering advertises a guaranteed one-hour RTO SLA. UniView provides centralized backup and disaster recovery management, with customizable SLA-based alerts through BackupIQ. For tertiary cloud storage, the software can use AWS S3, Azure Blob, or Wasabi. Recovery Series appliances use a hardened Linux platform with multifactor authentication, encryption, and role-based access control. They come in desktop and rackmount form factors, with sizes from 2TB to 120TB. Pricing is tailored to business needs and available on request. Technical support is available 24/7/365 from a U.S.-based team; communications are in English.