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.
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The replication is a key feature."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is excellent."
"We selected Zerto because the RPO is extremely low, so you can get that server back up almost immediately. That was a huge thing. Also, the ability to do failover tests, where you can test your environment, but not have it impact your production environment, was huge."
"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"
"The ease of setting up replication, the speed, and the ease with which I can fail over and fail back are all excellent aspects of the solution."
"Zerto's ease of use is outstanding; it's easy to set up and has a clear interface and menus. The reporting, analytics, and online monitoring are also excellent."
"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."
"I give Zerto's stability a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is real-time replication, where we have the ability to recover things in near real-time."
"From a management perspective, one of the biggest benefits is to see the excitement of your engineers having a tool that truly enables them, really making their lives easier. That is something that I love. When we came out of the PoC, their eyes were just wide with excitement of what was possible now."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"In general, the drawbacks of VMware SRM, where improvements can be made, stem from the fact that it is an expensive and complex product."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
"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."
"The documentation needs improvement in terms of the setup, getting enough detail, and getting that up to speed."
"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."
"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."
"This solution could be improved by being more cloud agnostic."
"They definitely have room for improvement in a couple of areas. One is role-based access control. Right now, they don't have an identity source so they use the identity of the vCenter or the VMM. If they connected to an identity source like Active Directory and allowed for granular roles and permissions, that would be an improvement."
"The replication layer can probably be improved."
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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