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.
"It has a good and effective user interface."
"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."
"This SRM solution can improve your footprint within a data center."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of operations."
"It eliminates the need for complex compliance requirements, making it a highly effective solution."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"Zerto offered a very good front-end GUI for orchestration. The graphic interface was very good."
"The simplicity of use is valuable. It is easy. We just click Failover and do it. It is pretty straightforward. If someone wants to do a test failover, they log in to the console and do a test failover"
"The stability is great; there's very little downtime. I don't have to worry that there will be a surprise update to one of the ZVRAs or the host that I have to contend with. We're given plenty of notice to plan ahead for an update. As far as losing service and downtime, we haven't had that happen."
"You can set the number of days a VM can be rolled back in case of corruption or virus infection."
"Real-time or near real-time replication has been the most valuable feature. Our RTO is generally between six and eight seconds. The impact on our RTO is essential."
"I give Zerto's stability a nine out of ten."
"The journaling is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"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."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"The administration guides can be complicated and difficult to use, so it would be helpful if it was made easier."
"I would like to see better integration with other storage solutions. I would hope to see that within the next two or three years."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."
"What I think can be improved is the data replication aspect."
"Technical support needs improvement, they are not very responsive."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The GUI could be streamlined a bit more to enhance the administrative tasks."
"An integrated encryption would allow for faster initial install and connection to the remote cloud site."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The replication layer can probably be improved."
"Zerto is too reliant on VMware's vCenter. It's tough to upgrade, move, or do anything related to virtual servers with vCenter."
"I am a little bit worried about how Zerto will work with large volumes of data, such as replication for big data and very large files."
"Their data backup and restore have some ways to go."
"They are not cheap. They are more expensive than others."
VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 73 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 236 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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