VMware Live Recovery (Site Recovery Manager)
Broadcom (VMware)
Paid
Near-zero - continuous sync, minutes to cut over
Agentless
Enterprise estates
Workload V2V V2C
What it is good at
Recovery-plan orchestration with non-disruptive test failover - ideal when migration must be rehearsed and signed off before cutover.
Where it falls down
Priced for DR, not one-off migration; vSphere-centric.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Non-disruptive test migration
- Rollback / failback after cutover
- Network and IP mapping
- API / CLI automation
- Agentless operation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Subscription, licensed per protected VM
- Licence model
- Subscription per protected virtual machine (formerly SRM per-VM packs of 25).
- How to license it
- Order through Broadcom or a Broadcom Advantage partner as a term subscription sized on protected VM count. Existing perpetual SRM keys carry over until renewal.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/live-recovery
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
- VMware Cloud on AWS / VCF on AWS
- Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)