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.
"It made the DR process a lot faster and easier for recovery after we were familiar with the product operation."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"It works really well. It's simple to set up and works well. Moreover, disaster recovery to the cloud to our organization is very important. We actually had to use it three years ago, and it worked out well for us."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
"Zerto provides our customers with the ability to continue work, even if something happens to their office or data center."
"In terms of continuous data protection, it's the best product that we've found that does this. It's not snapshot-based. It's continuous, so there are no specific points in time we have to worry about recovering to or from. It's pretty much any time, as long as it's within our replication window."
"With Zerto, we were able to replicate our virtual servers to a remote DR site across a WAN connection."
"The near-synchronous replication is key. That has allowed us to provide the low RPOs that we promise. For key systems, that has been the deciding factor."
"The orchestration and automation of the DR and how it replicates the VMs and then picks them up in the DR site have been most valuable."
"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"The solution is very expensive."
"There is a need to allow the source vCenter Inventory to be imported with a single click."
"It is expensive."
"We had some issues with replication, especially on Linux, but we have already resolved them."
"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."
"One thing I would like to see, and I know that this is on their roadmap, is the ability to use long-term storage in the cloud, like in Azure or AWS, making that even more seamless. Whether it's stored in glacier or on-prem, being able to retrieve that data in a quick manner would be helpful. They're just not there yet."
"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."
"I am a little bit worried about how Zerto will work with large volumes of data, such as replication for big data and very large files."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 235 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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