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's most valuable features are its convenience and its use of stretched clusters."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery testing."
"It is a very stable solution...I was involved in VMware SRM's deployment phase two years ago, and it was an easy process."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"It is easy to implement for my clients."
"I like how VMware SRM is able to automate and orchestrate disaster recovery."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"The thing I like the most about SMR is the reduced cost of management."
"It enables protection of a virtual workload to be done by the app, whether single or multi-tiered, with a boot time scheduler. It is pretty awesome."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."
"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 like the ease of recovery and backup the most."
"When we use our VMware environment, sometimes the HP hardware is not compatible, and we start to lose data. I like that we can restore our whole application and public-facing system through Zerto."
"The replication feature where it constantly replicates and sees that data is always in sync is valuable."
"The way we can use checkpoints from each VM to restore them is an excellent feature, and the replication is great."
"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."
"It would be good if this solution could integrate configuration management software such as Chef Infra."
"The price, in general, could be lower."
"The version we are currently using is not the latest and greatest but it has buggy behavior in some browsers."
"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."
"In my view, if VMware comes up with an appliance-based solution like vCenter Server (which was also Windows-based), it will be much easier for deployment. I"
"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
"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 had a bug recently that has come up and caused some issues. They currently have a bug in their production versions that prevents their product from functioning in some scenarios, and we have hit a few of those scenarios."
"It would be beneficial if Zerto also offered integration with other cloud management platforms, such as VMware Aria Automation."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The product could benefit from improvements in automation, specifically in the area of failovers."
"I would like Zerto to provide more detailed information when there is an issue."
"The full site recovery is not up to SRM standards."
"Zerto needs to improve its support for VMware Lifecycle Manager."
"Long-term retention of files is a function that isn't available yet that I'm looking forward to them providing. The long-term retention is the only other thing that I think needs improvement."
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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