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.
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."
"It works really well. It's simple to set up and works well. Moreover, disaster recovery to the cloud to our organization is very important. We actually had to use it three years ago, and it worked out well for us."
"The instant recovery at DR locations is the most valuable feature. We're required to do periodic DR tests of critical databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL. We have recovery point objectives set for specific databases and we need to be able to achieve them. Zerto helps solve that business problem."
"We've seen a massive benefit from using Zerto in terms of time savings and consistency. You see a consistent outcome every time you do the conversions. We're moving from one platform to another, but the payloads in what we're moving are different. We see consistent delivery."
"Zerto offered us massive time saving and consistency. We have a consistent outcome every time we complete conversions."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"The replication feature where it constantly replicates and sees that data is always in sync is valuable."
"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."
"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."
"Lacks stability and as a result requires continuous monitoring."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"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."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."
"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."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"It would be nice if we were able to purchase single licenses for Zerto. As it is now, scaling requires that we purchase a multi-pack."
"It has some quirks. We have quirks with appliances. Some things don't really work as expected, but it is minor."
"The biggest improvement would be exporting VPGs and a configuration of VPGs, as well as increasing or improving their IP customization rule set."
"The email alerts can be excessive, so better control over frequency or resolution may be a worthwhile improvement."
"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."
"I would like to see a couple of details regarding awareness of VM events coming outside of ZVR."
"For special situations, there are options within advanced settings. You don't have to dig too far for them, but they're not quite as straightforward."
"We learned that we got a new account representative supporting our account. I found this out today. Apparently, this is something that they kicked off at the beginning of this year, but there has been a failure in communication in letting us know who is the proper channel for us to reach out to if we need assistance."
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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