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 stability of SRM has been excellent. It gets a nine-out-of-ten."
"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"The solution helps to improve business continuity processes. Its automatic failover and failback policies have been wonderful."
"The product is evolving and the vendor is committed to change."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours."
"The solution is scalable."
"There are several valuable features because of the way we use it. The backup and restore features are definitely indispensable."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"It has enabled DR protection for virtual appliances with minimal administrator time."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of upgrades."
"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."
"Its user interface is excellent, and when it comes to data duplication, Zerto is very fast."
"We have seen ROI. The biggest way that we have seen it is in avoided downtime. We have had outages before, and we count downtime in terms of dollars spent. We have cut that down so dramatically, which provides us a very quick ROI. We have drastically reduced the amount of time it takes us to recover workloads, from an average of two hours to an average of 10 minutes."
"The live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"We've had configuration issues on occasion. We start to fail over, and then we have to call it off because the configuration is not right, or the data stores aren't configured correctly in the secondary data center. Oftentimes, it is just the experience level of the team, and we have to bring in the vendor to help and validate our configuration."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"The user experience could be more friendly."
"The two vCenters have to be synchronized, which sometimes gives us problems because Keberos does not tolerate more than five minutes in time difference."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"When I have a technical question, it sometimes takes a while for tech support to respond."
"The licensing is confusing and complicated."
"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."
"I want to have an OVF or some local deployment where I can deploy the ZVRA rather than having to push it from the console. Some of our smaller remote sites have relatively poor bandwidth, and they can't keep up with the constant deployment stream from our center console, meaning we have to find some creative hours to get around the bandwidth bottlenecks. If I could push out a small install file, install it locally, and then reach back to the console, that would be excellent."
"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."
"Analytics has a 90-day window, where it keeps data. It would be nice to have on-prem storage instead of cloud storage for that so we can keep the data for longer. Unless you discover the problem within three months, you don't know that you need the data. Then, it is gone by the time you realize there is an issue."
"In Azure... We have to make sure that every resource group is tagged correctly, with the correct team and department because we have to bill them at the end of the month. The problem is that Zerto does not have that ability. When the product fails over or migrates a VM from on-prem, or even within Azure, to another site, it does not give you the option of selecting an existing resource group."
"It took some time to get to know the solution in general, and exactly what functions each of the features is used for."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 71 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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