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.
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The solution is very flexible."
"I really like how you can test the failover as often as you need."
"I've used backup solutions like Veeam in the past, but Zerto seemed like a better, faster solution. We adopted Zerto because of the speed, and because we wanted to do everything in-house."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."
"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."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to re-IP on the fly, because it makes the migration a lot smoother on the system end."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"Our RPOs and RTOs are now more in line with our other critical systems."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"VMware SRM lacks certain functions that other platforms have, such as better prioritization of allocation of resources and Boot profiles."
"The performance was generally good, but occasional lag disrupted the flow, leaving room for improvement."
"There's a mandatory VMware version, so we need to update our VMs in order to access our data. Zerto should work with all VMware versions."
"The biggest improvement would be exporting VPGs and a configuration of VPGs, as well as increasing or improving their IP customization rule set."
"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."
"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
"I want to have an OVF or some local deployment where I can deploy the ZVRA rather than having to push it from the console. Some of our smaller remote sites have relatively poor bandwidth, and they can't keep up with the constant deployment stream from our center console, meaning we have to find some creative hours to get around the bandwidth bottlenecks. If I could push out a small install file, install it locally, and then reach back to the console, that would be excellent."
"Zerto added the backup feature, but it's not quite up to speed yet when you compare it with the backup capabilities of other solutions out there."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 27 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 127 reviews. VMware SRM is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Robust reliability tool ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for virtualized environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Our average recovery time is now in seconds, and we can spin up a test version without affecting our production environment". 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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