Arcserve ShadowProtect vs VMware Live Site Recovery
| Arcserve ShadowProtect | VMware Live Site Recovery | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Linux, Windows | self-hosted, Web |
| Free plan | No | |
| Failover orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment model | hybrid | hybrid |
| Supported workloads | Windows and Linux systems; physical and virtual machines; Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, IIS, Hyper-V, Dynamics CRM, VMware vCenter, Oracle Database, custom applications | virtual machines |
| Failback orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Test failover | Yes | Yes |
| Computer backup | Yes | |
| Server backup | Yes | |
| Backup scope | image | |
| Restore modes | mixed | |
| Ransomware protection | Yes | |
| Supported platforms | Windows, Linux | |
| Bare-metal restore | Yes | |
| Bootable recovery media | Yes | |
| Incremental images | Yes | |
| Image encryption | Yes | |
| Cloud image destination | Yes | |
| Supported SaaS apps | Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power BI, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Zendesk, Jira Cloud, Confluence Cloud | |
| Backup frequency | multiple times daily | |
| Restore scope | item-level | |
| Audit logs | Yes | |
| Deployment | hybrid | |
| Virtual server backup | Yes | |
| Application-aware backup | Yes | |
| Immutable backups | Yes | |
| Recovery runbooks | Yes |
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