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."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"SRM's best feature is automation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The solution is very flexible."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"The replication feature and DR functionality are most valuable. Zerto has many options when a new server is being provisioned."
"The simplicity of use is valuable. It is easy. We just click Failover and do it. It is pretty straightforward. If someone wants to do a test failover, they log in to the console and do a test failover"
"Zerto provides our customers with the ability to continue work, even if something happens to their office or data center."
"It is the backbone of our DR solution for critical databases that hold the data we can't afford to lose. It provided new opportunities to change how we approach disaster recovery."
"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."
"It's one of the easiest products out there, as far as managing and using it go. The UI is pretty dead simple."
"Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feature is great."
"The most important feature is that the recovery point (RPO) is less than one minute. The is really good for our customers, as they can keep their data loss to a minimum."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."
"The overall management plan could improve. If something happens with the VM on the vSphere side, the error codes are pretty weak. If there was a way to click on something within the UI that takes us to a support page or article, that would be very beneficial."
"I need to get up to the latest version so I can move my journals to a particular LUN, saving them with a particular storage altogether, rather than with the virtual machine. This is not available until I upgrade, and I need to upgrade all my hypervisors. This would be something that would be nice to have if it could be used on older versions."
"Right now, if you have an error, it creates a link that takes you to a website to review information about the problem. It would be nice if Zerto could give you information within the app instead of referring you to a web application."
"The full site recovery is not up to SRM standards."
"Some of the ability to automate selections and automate VPG creations could be better."
"The long-term recovery is a little bit weak in its granularity."
"If they already do not have it, they can have some APIs for the Horizon environment. Instead of having to use some scripts to get around, they can make it a lot more user-friendly for integration."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 234 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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