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 most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"Our RTO is quick, and we can recover five to ten terabytes of data within minutes of a failover."
"We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%."
"The orchestration and automation of the DR and how it replicates the VMs and then picks them up in the DR site have been most valuable."
"It works very well in terms of it providing continuous data protection. It does what it says it is going to do. We have been using it for several years, and once or twice, we had to recover a machine or files. It didn't have any problems in doing what it is supposed to be doing."
"The low RPO times of about four to eight seconds are very nice and very valuable to us."
"We can use Zerto to help protect our VMs."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"We are in the process of switching over our production data center and Zerto has been a true time-saver that has cost us zero downtime."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The solution currently has a five-minute RPO, meaning if the VM goes down we can lose up to five minutes of data which is a big deal when it relates to database replication."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"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."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It needs more documentation and automation features. I would like more documentation on designing an environment and network operations. On the automation side, I would like automation to clean up the environment in cases of a failed DR effort. An API interface to perform the DR exercise would also be nice."
"I am a little bit worried about how Zerto will work with large volumes of data, such as replication for big data and very large files."
"We have had issues with licensing, where the license we've been given by Zerto support doesn't include VSS replication, which was a pain at the time."
"We're not fully satisfied with the support team."
"Their offsite backup is a bit clunky, but it will probably improve."
"The alerting has room for improvement as it is the biggest pain point with the software. It is so bad. It is just general alerting on or off. There are so many emails all the time. You have no control over it, which is terrible. It is the worst part of the entire application. I have voiced this to Zerto hundreds of times for things like feature changes. Apparently, it's coming, but there is nothing concrete as to when you can do it."
"Now, everything is moving to the cloud and many modern app solutions are based on virtualization and cloud, however, for situations where Unix platforms are used, we'd like them to be able to support that."
"It would be great if Zerto could automate replication more."
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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