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.
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The solution helps to improve business continuity processes. Its automatic failover and failback policies have been wonderful."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"The solution is very flexible."
"The solution is scalable."
"The live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of upgrades."
"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."
"When we replicated our data, I turned up the machine, and it was up in seconds. It blew my mind. I could not believe it."
"Zerto's continuous data protection is unmatched. It's phenomenal. It's also very easy to use. The menus are self-explanatory. Once you understand the terminology of the product, what the VPGs (Virtual Protected Groups) are, you're able to pretty much do what you want in the product. It's very easy to use."
"When we use our VMware environment, sometimes the HP hardware is not compatible, and we start to lose data. I like that we can restore our whole application and public-facing system through Zerto."
"The test features have been really good for us. Our DR testing goes very quickly and easily now for all our stuff with Zerto. We have our priority recovery process, where we cover our databases for our app servers and web servers. All our teams pretty much get their VMs very quickly. The RPOs are very low."
"The journaling is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"Zerto's solution could benefit from additional security features, such as malware scanning tools at the recovery site."
"Even though Zerto is for disaster recovery, it would be nice if it can also make backups."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if the implementation team had a better best practices guide and made sure things like the journaling are very clearly understood."
"Analytics has a 90-day window, where it keeps data. It would be nice to have on-prem storage instead of cloud storage for that so we can keep the data for longer. Unless you discover the problem within three months, you don't know that you need the data. Then, it is gone by the time you realize there is an issue."
"The only issue I've ever had is that I wish that Zerto would work more closely with VMware. There have been a few times that Zerto has released an update but it wasn't supported with that version of VMware. I would like them to coordinate their updates with VMware's updates."
"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."
"Another thing that would help would be a recommender, or some type of tool that says, 'Hey, you're not conforming to best practices.' It would do a conformance or compliance check to tell you if your VPGs are set up according to best practices and whether your Zerto clusters are set up optimally. It would see if you have HA enabled and whether your alerting is turned on."
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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