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 SRM is a very nice tool for disaster recovery for virtual environments."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"In terms of resiliency, the most valuable aspect of SRM has been its effectiveness."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can independently run the disaster recovery without disturbing the production instances."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The ability to perform DR testing to ensure data integrity is critical."
"Zerto enables us to do sandboxing failovers. You can run tests on a production environment in a sandbox and spin up a copy of your actual production environment in a few hours. When you're done with it, you can click a couple of buttons, and it's all blown away. You don't need to worry about reverting changes or interfering with your on-prem production environments."
"Zerto provides our customers with the ability to continue work, even if something happens to their office or data center."
"Its user interface is excellent, and when it comes to data duplication, Zerto is very fast."
"Zerto is easy to use and the interface is very intuitive."
"The biggest benefit is the application-consistent disaster recovery functionality."
"Zerto is so easy to use that when I showed it to my manager, he said jokingly, 'Huh. I could use it myself, I don't need you.' Zerto is most elegant."
"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."
"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"The primary site lacks adequate equipment, such as power backup and cooling, which can lead to downtime during issues like power outages or overheating."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"One thing which is lacking from the SRM is reporting."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."
"The email alerts can be excessive, so better control over frequency or resolution may be a worthwhile improvement."
"An integrated encryption would allow for faster initial install and connection to the remote cloud site."
"More user support would be best for me because I'm not in the product all the time. So, having strong support is probably the most important decision on any products that we buy."
"It took some time to get to know the solution in general, and exactly what functions each of the features is used for."
"Zerto could be considered as a backup product but this is not true. So if we could consolidate and use Zerto for disaster recovery as well as everyday backup and restore for situations where we need to recover something, that would be helpful. Anyway, we think that Zerto will win with no competition in the Disaster Recovery process, so we stay focused on this. Now we are testing version 10 which include real-time ransomware detection, a new Cyber Resilience Vault and enhanced cloud capabilities and security: we expect more from these features for superior hybrid cloud security."
"The problem with the backup product is that it's not very mature and you really need a specific use case to be able to use it effectively. It's hard to explain to our customers, especially our large customers, that the use case is so limited."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 27 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 127 reviews. VMware SRM is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "Robust reliability tool ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for virtualized environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Our average recovery time is now in seconds, and we can spin up a test version without affecting our production environment". 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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