The VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) alternative for Proxmox
Teams leaving VMware for Proxmox VE quickly hit a gap: Proxmox has no equivalent to VMware Live Site Recovery (formerly Site Recovery Manager). ProxDR fills it — SRM-class disaster recovery, built for Proxmox, at a fraction of the cost.
What VMware SRM did for you
Site Recovery Manager gave VMware shops the operational backbone of disaster recovery: array- or vSphere-based replication, recovery plans with ordered boot groups, non-disruptive DR testing in an isolated bubble network, and one-click planned or unplanned failover and failback. It turned "we have backups somewhere" into a tested, repeatable recovery process.
Why Proxmox alone isn't enough
Proxmox VE has solid building blocks — ZFS and Ceph replication, and Proxmox Backup Server — but no DR orchestration layer. There's no recovery-plan engine, no non-disruptive test-failover, no one-click cutover, and no cross-site network re-mapping. And native replication only covers ZFS and Ceph, leaving LVM-thin and other backends without protection.
How ProxDR compares to VMware SRM
| Capability | VMware SRM | Proxmox alone | ProxDR |
|---|---|---|---|
| VM replication | Yes | ZFS / Ceph only | Any storage |
| Non-disruptive DR testing | Yes | — | Yes |
| Recovery plans & boot order | Yes | — | Yes |
| One-click failover / failback | Yes | — | Yes |
| Network re-mapping & re-IP | Yes | — | Yes |
| Hypervisor | VMware vSphere | Proxmox VE | Proxmox VE |
| Starting price | Per-CPU, enterprise | — | $99/year per site pair |
Built for Proxmox, priced for everyone
ProxDR installs on a Linux VM in seconds, connects to your Proxmox clusters, and manages replication, testing, and failover from one web UI. It works on any storage backend — including LVM-thin, where Proxmox can't natively replicate — thanks to a storage-agnostic engine built on QEMU dirty bitmaps. Pricing starts at $99/year per DR Site Pair, versus the per-CPU enterprise licensing SRM required.
Moving off VMware? Start here
If you've migrated (or are migrating) from vSphere to Proxmox and miss SRM, ProxDR is the shortest path back to tested, orchestrated disaster recovery. Read the Proxmox disaster recovery guide, or see how ProxDR compares to Zerto.