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.
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Nutanix environment."
"The installation and initial setup are straightforward."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"Automated recovery is one good feature, SRM also offers simplified management. It has a centralized interface for configuring, testing, and executing disaster recovery plans across multiple sites. This means management from a single point, even for many sites."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."
"It is convenient to use because the API allows for seamless integration when performing our day-to-day operations."
"The ease of failover and test environments has proven invaluable."
"The Move feature is the most valuable feature because it allows us to move the VM from our old environment to our new environment with minimal disruption."
"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."
"Zerto's user-friendliness is valuable."
"The most important features are the simplicity of recovery and the wider capabilities and feature sets than VMware SRM has."
"The replication piece with the built-in WAN compression is important because the network circuit that we send our replication traffic across isn't actually behind our normal WAN accelerators. We were able to use Zerto's built-in WAN acceleration to help those workloads compress."
"If you have a failover case, you need to work on it manually. It would be helpful if this could be automated. It would simplify things."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"Adding or changing VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) may require restarting replication."
"I haven't been a super big fan of the support area. The support could really be better in terms of responsiveness. I've had some issues that took two or three days to get resolved. Once I got to the right person, they were resolved quickly, but it took a while to get to that person."
"If there is a mass of changes to a server, Zerto will restart the replication. It would be nice to know why that happens."
"When it comes to a solution, one of the things the management wants is to standardize platforms. That's why when Rubrik came out with their solution, they wanted to look at it. For instance, if you have multiple technologies, you're going to need admins to manage all those different ones. I would like Zerto to be something that fits all our needs, including the backup that Rubrik provides, but I understand that not all solutions can be that way."
"I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit."
"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"Not all of the knowledge required for implementing Zerto is available in their online documentation for non-partners."
"The only thing I really don't like about Zerto is that the ZVM has to be a Windows server. I can spin up any OBA template whenever I want to, but if it has an OS that's tied to it, then I have to involve the OS team from my company. That drives me crazy."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 72 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, Commvault Cloud, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our VMware SRM vs. Zerto report.
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