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."
"My impression is that the initial setup process is relatively straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"Zerto is truly inspiring."
"The file restoration is very helpful. They've improved it over the years to make it a lot more user-friendly and easy to do, which I appreciate. So, we use that quite a bit. The failover process is quite simple and intuitive. Even the configuration and setup are pretty easy to do. It is pretty easy to use. I've done the restoration of servers several times, not as a disaster. When an upgrade on a server goes wrong and it messes things up, I can just fail back to a previous version and try it again. So, that has been really helpful."
"I found VM level replication and being able to group the VM levels to be valuable. I like not having to worry about whether a particular VM is in the right storage group; some of those sorts of things would trip us up previously."
"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."
"You can set the number of days a VM can be rolled back in case of corruption or virus infection."
"I've used backup solutions like Veeam in the past, but Zerto seemed like a better, faster solution. We adopted Zerto because of the speed, and because we wanted to do everything in-house."
"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."
"We now have the ability to replicate critical data to a secure, off-site location that can be brought back in seconds if needed."
"The interface is not easy to use and can be made more user-friendly."
"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"There needs to be better stability during heavy capacity in future releases."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"Zerto's connectivity with automation platforms could be improved. For example, vCenter can use a VMware-developed tool called Site Recovery Manager. That can be integrated with automation platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, to perform automated, self-sufficient recoveries to essentially avoid any downtime. To my knowledge, Zerto does not have integration with those platforms."
"Some of the integrations with our internal tools, in particular, company-specific ones, do not work. In cases like this, we have to ask for additional support."
"The replication appliances tend to have issues when they recover from being powered off when a host is in maintenance mode. Sometimes you have to do a manual task where you go in and detach hard disks that are no longer in use, to get the replication appliances to power back on. There are some improvements to be made around the way those recover."
"If they already do not have it, they can have some APIs for the Horizon environment. Instead of having to use some scripts to get around, they can make it a lot more user-friendly for integration."
"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."
"Maybe the reporting for the failover test could be a little better."
"There is a need to allow the source vCenter Inventory to be imported with a single click."
"It would be helpful if the reports can be generated periodically, on a schedule."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 69 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, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our VMware SRM vs. Zerto report.
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