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.
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the automation, where you press a button and everything fails over seamlessly."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The way we can use checkpoints from each VM to restore them is an excellent feature, and the replication is great."
"The biggest benefit is the application-consistent disaster recovery functionality."
"I've been fortunate enough not to need to rely on Zerto in an actual disaster, but we do testing every year. Sometimes, it's multiple times annually or at the year's end. It takes the recovery workflow, which would normally take a lot of planning, and reduces that to just a few minutes."
"Zerto is an excellent solution for cloud-based environments, but for DIY clients who have another site to recover their systems it also works well."
"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."
"Since the log files are continuously transmitted, the granularity of restores is amazing."
"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."
"The replication and recovery features are the most valuable... On two occasions, other departments in our organization reported issues with specific virtual machines. We used the checkpoint feature of the Zerto to enable the recovery of those machines to a point that was a few minutes prior to the problem."
"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"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."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"You cannot use VMware SRM in conjunction with storage replication software."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"The onset of configuring an environment in the cloud is difficult and could be easier to do."
"I had a couple of questions after deployment, but nothing major, about a couple of ways I could tweak it."
"I wouldn't mind seeing Zerto sold at a cheaper price point, although the cost is comparable to VMware SRM."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"I don't have any input for improvement or a critical feature request at this moment. If anything, a lower price is always better."
"Compared to other products, I would praise the intuitiveness of the product. But I think that can always be improved. The intuitiveness of the graphical user interface, while it is very solid and I don't have issues navigating it. I would say that it can always be improved."
"The alerting doesn't quite give you the information about what exactly is going on when an issue comes up. We do get alerts inside of our vCenter, but it doesn't quite give you accurate information inside the plugin to be able to tell us what's going on without having to go into the actual Zerto application and figuring out what's causing the issue."
"If something happens, and we are out and about, I would like to be able to interface with it on our mobile phones. That would be great."
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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