We performed a comparison between VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and Zerto based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Zerto wins out in this competition. Its consistent sub-second response for RTO and RPO makes it one of the most responsive and fastest in the marketplace today. Users are able to easily run tests and change scenarios without any effect on an organization's production.
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"The solution is scalable."
"I would rate the ease of setting up and configuring my recovery plan in VMware SRM, a ten out of ten, with ten being the easiest."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The solution is very flexible."
"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."
"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."
"The fact that we are able to test the failover of live systems during regular hours is invaluable to our organization."
"A new feature is the One-To-Many VPG allowing a VM to be replicated at up to three different locations, including local."
"The replication being log-based is awesome."
"The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple."
"The ability to perform DR testing to ensure data integrity is critical."
"The most valuable feature for us is accelerating cloud adoption, as it helps provide greater speed for disaster recovery. Ultimately, this saves us time, as well as resources."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"It has some quirks. We have quirks with appliances. Some things don't really work as expected, but it is minor."
"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"More user support would be best for me because I'm not in the product all the time. So, having strong support is probably the most important decision on any products that we buy."
"Migration of complex VMware and Hyper-V solution. Using Zerto to replicate to azure and S3."
"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."
"It would also be nice if you could update without having to download a new installation file for Zerto Virtual Manager. Within the app, it could prompt you to install and perform the installation from within the application. Generally, it's relatively easy to use, but it gets a little complex when customers have special network requirements and need to customize how long they want the save points to be retained. We need to work with the storage team on the backend to see what makes the most sense for the client."
"We're not fully satisfied with the support team."
"I wish they would...develop their PowerShell module to be more robust. So instead of having to rely on the API to actually include a PowerShell command, it would let you create VPGs, delete VPGs, modify VPGs, etc. This would ease the automation effort of deployment and decommissioning and I'd really appreciate that."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 233 reviews. VMware SRM is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service , whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our VMware SRM vs. Zerto report.
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