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 solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SRM is its integration with the VMware platform."
"The replication is a key feature."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"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."
"It's very stable. It doesn't require a lot of intervention."
"The replication being log-based is awesome."
"Since the log files are continuously transmitted, the granularity of restores is amazing."
"With Zerto, we were able to replicate our virtual servers to a remote DR site across a WAN connection."
"The most valuable features are the single pane of glass and the reduction in time it takes for our systems engineering team to manage the platform."
"It is convenient to use because the API allows for seamless integration when performing our day-to-day operations."
"It's the easiest to use."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"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."
"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."
"The onset of configuring an environment in the cloud is difficult and could be easier to do."
"An integrated encryption would allow for faster initial install and connection to the remote cloud site."
"Right now, our production environment runs on-premises, and we have a DR copy of everything that we run in production. However, our development runs on that hardware. In the case of a DR event, we would need to shut down development and bring up our secondary copy of production. We're hoping that Zerto is going to be the tool to help us do that."
"We do have some sites that are very low-bandwidth sites. Zerto is able to set throttling in the solution, but the throttling is set at a site-wide level. In those instances that have very low bandwidth, I can't reduce the throttling on that site. It would be nice if there were a way to control the throttling by the protection group for a specific workload."
"Some of the features need improvement. One would be, as you're creating a Move group or a VPG, as they call it, it should either autosave or have the ability so that you can save it for coming back to later because if the setup times out, you lose all your work. That would be a nice improvement to have."
"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 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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