Cloud FastPath vs. VMware Cloud Director vs. Zerto on IBM Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloud FastPath
Score 2.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Cloud FastPath is a cloud based migration tool which enables both on-premises to cloud and cloud to cloud migrations, backups, and sync. Cloud FastPath is designed to get the user’s digital assets into their cloud file service with speed. According to the vendor, it works seamlessly with Citrix ShareFile, Box, Dropbox for Business, Amazon, and many others. The vendor’s value proposition is that Cloud FastPath eliminates the headaches of data movement jobs and manual administration…
$400
month
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
Zerto on IBM Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Zerto on IBM Cloud protects, expands, and migrates existing VMware vSphere and other hypervisor workloads onto IBM Cloud, in order to provide a secure, flexible, and scalable disaster recovery solution. These single-tenant environments are deployed on IBM Cloud's data centers around the world and provide cloud application recovery in minutes.
$40
per VM
Pricing
Cloud FastPathVMware Cloud DirectorZerto on IBM Cloud
Editions & Modules
Professional
$400
month
Enterprise
Varies
month
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Zerto
$40.00
per VM
Zerto One-To-Many
$60.00
per VM
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cloud FastPathVMware Cloud DirectorZerto on IBM Cloud
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsZerto one-to-many license available
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Small Businesses
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10

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Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Score 8.0 out of 10

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Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10

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Keepit
Keepit
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cloud FastPathVMware Cloud DirectorZerto on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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VMware by Broadcom
If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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IBM
Zerto on IBM Cloud is great to get your datacenter redundant and highly available. It overcomes geographic contingencies and makes your production environment reliably flexible. If you do not like the added cost of redundancy or cost of cloud services, this inconvenient fee may not fit you well. But you'd be better off in the long run to have Zerto protecting your bottom line despite the cost.
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Pros
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Building virtual racks
  • Managing the customers' network and security
  • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
  • Integration with major software providers
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IBM
  • It is easy to get started.
  • It is also very simple to set up the backup.
  • Disaster recovery is no longer a dreadful or painful process.
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Cons
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VMware by Broadcom
  • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
  • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
  • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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IBM
  • Enable the ability to use IBM Cloud Object Storage as a target for Zerto's long-term retention feature.
  • Easier access to the underlying VMware infrastructure would be nice. Right now we have to connect to IBM's VPN and use other tools to do some infrastructure management tasks.
  • More insight into the IBM-side VMware environment that we replicate to (i.e. ability to see available IPs, etc). Most of that is managed by IBM.
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Alternatives Considered
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VMware by Broadcom
vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset it
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IBM
Before we were using native backup solutions. We elected to bring in Zerto on IBM Cloud so that our team could have the ability to take small increments of data over time so that the final cutover would be quick and efficient.
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Return on Investment
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
  • Stable, so little to non downtime
  • With P1 , good support
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IBM
  • Positive is the option of bringing your own license.
  • Negative - the complex environments are not supported.
  • This cannot be used as a backup replacement rather DR tool.
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ScreenShots

Cloud FastPath Screenshots

Screenshot of Windows local client to connect to Cloud FastPath from a windows server or computer.Screenshot of Job configurationScreenshot of File selection on the source machineScreenshot of Central dashboard for all movement jobsScreenshot of Scheduling feature

Zerto on IBM Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Zerto and IBM DR Solutions- Complete Multi-Cloud Data ProtectionScreenshot of Zerto on IBM cloud architecture