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 most valuable feature of the solution is the automatic recovery of the virtual machine if it goes down."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The UI is very user-friendly and testing is easy."
"Testing failover capabilities."
"The replication is a key feature."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."
"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."
"Our RPOs and RTOs are now more in line with our other critical systems."
"The most valuable feature is the point in time recovery. This allows us to recover at any point in time, up to a minute or so."
"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."
"Zerto is intuitive. We could set everything up in the environment within a day and a half and start migrating on the third day."
"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."
"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"From a management perspective, one of the biggest benefits is to see the excitement of your engineers having a tool that truly enables them, really making their lives easier. That is something that I love. When we came out of the PoC, their eyes were just wide with excitement of what was possible now."
"The configuration process could be improved."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the automation and orchestration aspects of this solution."
"Flexibility to choose different PITs would be nice."
"VMware SRM needs to improve its pricing."
"Sometimes it can cause a bit of downtime during switchovers."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The onset of configuring an environment in the cloud is difficult and could be easier to do."
"There are certain things about the user interface that could be a little bit more user-friendly."
"Zerto is too reliant on VMware's vCenter. It's tough to upgrade, move, or do anything related to virtual servers with vCenter."
"I would like Zerto to add support for VMware's lifecycle manager."
"There is a need to allow the source vCenter Inventory to be imported with a single click."
"Adding or changing VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) may require restarting replication."
"I would like to see them continuously improve Zerto's automated functions, such as putting hosts in maintenance mode within vSphere and not having to worry as much about how Zerto is going to react... Sometimes, Zerto almost holds the vSphere environment hostage when it comes to taking certain actions. You really need to be cognizant about what you're about to do. They should further automate that and increase Zerto's ability to handle things like that in a very slick, automated way, without intervention."
"Zerto's solution could benefit from additional security features, such as malware scanning tools at the recovery site."
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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