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 product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"Virtual Machine Recovery during DR situation, with automation and easy to use menus and options."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"VMware SRM is very effective between two sites with identical twin storage, you can have synchronization between the two sites."
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"If you want to do failover, it works without any problem."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"Its user interface is excellent, and when it comes to data duplication, Zerto is very fast."
"The user interface is very user-friendly."
"VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth."
"The ease of failover and test environments has proven invaluable."
"For us, the most valuable features are the quick upload time and how the sync works... We have VMware SRM and Veeam, and they have been pretty slow and sluggish."
"The return to operations is the most valuable feature because it decreases the amount of time it takes us to recover."
"The test features have been really good for us. Our DR testing goes very quickly and easily now for all our stuff with Zerto. We have our priority recovery process, where we cover our databases for our app servers and web servers. All our teams pretty much get their VMs very quickly. The RPOs are very low."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"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."
"Timing issues arise due to replication lags in multiple areas. When this happens, we encounter errors."
"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The product's dashboard is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"In future releases, doing backups of the environment we need to be able to do hot backups of the database."
"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."
"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."
"Zerto's solution could benefit from additional security features, such as malware scanning tools at the recovery site."
"I would like to request better reporting in Zerto. I can see the data that I need in the console, but if I need to put the data or the history into a report, it is difficult. It is something that auditors might require, so reporting is something that needs to be improved."
"The backup end of this solution could be improved. We tried using it as a full backup solution and it took way too long to complete at least one backup."
"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."
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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