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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Zerto and VMware Live Recovery compete in the disaster recovery category. Zerto is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and support, whereas VMware Live Recovery wins over users with its comprehensive features, offering substantial value for the cost.

Features: Zerto provides continuous data protection, non-disruptive testing, and flexible recovery options. VMware Live Recovery boasts robust integration with VMware environments, automated failover, and a feature set more aligned with enterprise needs.

Room for Improvement: Zerto could improve its integration capabilities and the automation of failover processes. It may also lack in enterprise-specific features compared to VMware. VMware Live Recovery can benefit from reducing complexity in its initial setup and enhancing its support system. Its pricing could also be more accessible for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is easy to deploy with a user-friendly process and provides quick support. VMware Live Recovery might require a more complex setup but integrates well into existing VMware ecosystems, offering support that benefits organizations already using VMware products.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto is notable for lower setup costs and a rapid ROI, making it appealing for cost-conscious businesses. VMware Live Recovery, while more expensive initially, justifies its price with a feature-rich offering that provides long-term value, especially for businesses prioritizing advanced recovery options and integration.

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VMware Live Recovery vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

VMware Live Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st)

Zerto

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

281

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of VMware Live Recovery is 17.2%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 15.8%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Siva Kuppala

Enterprise Architect at Wipro Limited

Apr 30, 2024

Offers simplified management and automated recovery process, which reduces the need for manual intervention during a disaster

Automated recovery is one good feature, SRM also offers simplified management. It has a centralized interface for configuring, testing, and executing disaster recovery plans across multiple sites. This means management from a single point, even for many sites. Recovery plans can be different for customers. So, another important feature is the policy-based protection within SRM. Recovery plans can be customized based on business requirements, including Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). These objectives might differ between industries – healthcare might need a more aggressive RPO, for instance. Additionally, SRM offers failback capabilities and reporting features for compliance.

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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."

"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."

"The initial setup is easy depending on the environment you are working with."

"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."

"VMware SRM's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."

"Incorporating non-disruptive testing capability in disaster recovery procedures has significantly benefited the overall recovery testing processes."

"It's easy to use and the interface is quite simple."

"The solution is very flexible."

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"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 most valuable feature is how quickly it powers down the original source VMs and the speed at which it powers up the new VMs. The amount of time it takes to put up the operating system is valuable. The speed is what I like the best."

"The most valuable feature is the disaster recovery capabilities. The fact that we can have a clinic across the country backup in as little as 45 minutes is incredible."

"The main reasons for adopting Zerto are data protection and being able to do disaster recovery for site recovery."

"The replication and recovery features are the most valuable... On two occasions, other departments in our organization reported issues with specific virtual machines. We used the checkpoint feature of the Zerto to enable the recovery of those machines to a point that was a few minutes prior to the problem."

"The most valuable features of this solution is the ease of use. In the event of a disaster, you don't need a technical person to actually run the software. You can bring anybody in, with the right instructions and credentials, and they can run the solution."

"The most valuable feature of Zerto is its overall flexibility, where it can be used for standard DR or you can also use it for server migrations, data center consolidations, etc."

"Zerto gives us peace of mind knowing that if we were attacked by ransomware, we would be able to recover data from the time before the ransomware to get us back to being fully functional."

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Cons

"An improvement for SRM would be better interface compatibility with other products."

"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."

"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."

"The user experience could be more friendly."

"Currently, there is a limitation of consolidating only 15 sites per SRM."

"The biggest issue for us is that this product does not have any demo for customers."

"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."

"This product is not appropriate for those moving to a broader cloud footprint."

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"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."

"Their data backup and restore have some ways to go."

"Zerto should continue adding new features. When I used it at the other bank, it wasn't good with replicating VDIs and automation."

"It would be difficult to do, but I would love it if Zerto handled some of the scripting and things necessary to do a recovery. For example, it would be helpful if the solution could update the DNS to point to a new location. It would be nice to automate some of those tasks that you have to do to recover a VM and they were kinda out-of-the-box point-and-click things rather than things that required you to write a script."

"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."

"There are a lot of features that it has that we don't use since we are on prem."

"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 to be able to replicate one to multiple without having to recreate every VPG. That would save us a lot of time. When we add a site or move our DR to a different site, I have to recreate everything from scratch. So, it'd be cool to be able to just repoint an existing VPG to a new site without having to recreate everything."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."

"VMware SRM is expensive when compared to Veeam and makes Veeam look cheaper. For support, some additional payments need to be made over the licensing costs of the solution."

"VMware sells in bundles of 50 VMs, so if we want to expand, we have to buy the whole bundle."

"I would say VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is very expensive in comparison with other available virtualization solutions."

"After Broadcom acquired the solution, the licensing cost increased drastically"

"There is an annual license to use this solution."

"The cost of SRM is on par with market rates."

"It is an expensive platform. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

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"It is less expensive than the full solution that we had previously, but at the same time, it's not an inexpensive product either."

"Licensing Zerto was very simple. They had a product that fit our size and scale. It made it really easy to choose."

"The pricing is very reasonable."

"I wish it were cheaper, but I would purchase it again at the same price."

"My impression is that Zerto is more expensive than other solutions, although I don't have exact numbers."

"Staffing may be a little thin at times, but as far as budgeting what we buy, the price for this solution has not been so outrageous that we don't buy it."

"Pricing is adequate at the standard of the product, but there could be "always" some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model."

"It was a little bit expensive. It took a long time for us to get DR for our workstations. It's one thing when you have 15 servers, but when we needed to bring on almost another 200 users, and each was the same price as the servers, it was too expensive. But Zerto worked with us and gave us a solution that was pretty decent in terms of price."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Mature products like VMware SRM often have higher costs. Their capabilities are extensive, but the licensing model can be complex.

What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

While there are no major drawbacks, some potential improvements could address complexities in implementing and maintaining SRM. The cost can be significant, and there's a resource overhead – meanin...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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Also Known As

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM

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Overview

VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides a comprehensive solution to safeguard critical data and applications from cyberattacks and other disasters.

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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