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.
"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"Our systems fail over using SRM. So, we do a big bang DR, which is biannual, and we fail over our fairly massive Epic electronic health record (EHR) and our core applications. It takes us about 30 minutes to fail over using SRM, which is pretty good. In most hospitals that have Epic installed, Epic does the audit to make sure that we can fail over if something were to happen. Normally, sites will have a DR solution specific to the EHR, but right now, our pain point is the third-party tier-one clinical applications."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"The solution is very flexible."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"The replication is the solution's most valuable feature. If we have some issues on the VM in the main site we can migrate it to another site automatically."
"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."
"I really like how you can test the failover as often as you need."
"Consistency Groups: If you replicate groups of VMs, then during failover, all of the VMs in groups are failed over to the exact same point in time."
"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."
"Zerto has helped reduce our organization's DR testing to seconds to minutes. We have been able to save probably close to 200 hours a year."
"Zerto is easy to use and the interface is very intuitive."
"We own another solution called VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM. We have licenses for our entire environment and we still decided not to use it. That's how big the difference was in the experience that Zerto provides."
"Its ease of use is valuable. You do not have to do much to install Zerto or implement Zerto on the infrastructure. It is not very complicated."
"Technical support can take some time to respond."
"In my opinion, the integration with Peer Persistent Storage could be improved."
"Cost is definitely an area where the product could be improved."
"The product's stability could be better."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The backup solution needs to be improved. From our perspective, Veeam and Zerto were competing products. They both do very unique things that they're very good at. For instance, Veeam can do replication well. However, it's really a backup product."
"The pricing could be a little bit lower."
"It would be advantageous if Zerto had plugins for Infoblox, Cisco, or load balancers, as this would enable us to better manage those records."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
"Not all of the knowledge required for implementing Zerto is available in their online documentation for non-partners."
"I would like Zerto to provide more detailed information when there is an issue."
"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."
"I would like to see a couple of details regarding awareness of VM events coming outside of ZVR."
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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