Zerto
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What is Zerto?
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud data management and protection platform is designed to eliminate the risks...
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What is Zerto?
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection,
recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud
data management and protection platform is designed to eliminate the risks and complexity of
modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid
deployments. The software-only platform uses continuous data protection
at scale to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data mobility. Zerto boasts users among over 9,500 customers globally. with offerings for Microsoft Azure,
IBM Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 350 managed service
providers.
Zerto Features
- Supported: BC/DR for vSphere & Hyper-V
- Supported: Hypervisor-based replication
- Supported: Installable in minutes at any scale
- Supported: Scalable to 5000 VMs
- Supported: Software-only
- Supported: Upgrade in-place in minutes
- Supported: No hypervisor version lock-in
- Supported: Management redundancy
- Supported: Always-on, block-level & no scheduling
- Supported: Storage agnostic VM-level replication
- Supported: RPO = seconds with no snapshots
- Supported: No protected VM performance impact
- Supported: Rewind to increments in seconds
- Supported: Multi-VM consistency groupings
- Supported: One-To-Many simultaneous replication
- Supported: Cross-hypervisor replication
- Supported: vMotion & svMotion support
- Supported: Built-in WAN compression
- Supported: Bandwidth throtting and QOS
- Supported: Dynamic & compressed journaling
- Supported: SQL & Oracle Temp DB optimization
- Supported: Automatically protect new VMs
- Supported: Recover sites, apps, VMs & files
- Supported: Recover to thousands of points in time
- Supported: RTO = minutes with boot ordering
- Supported: Cross-hypervisor VM conversion
- Supported: Automated failover & boot ordering
- Supported: No snapshots on recovery VM
- Supported: Failback with reverse protection
- Supported: Non-disruptive failover testing
- Supported: Automatic re-IP, re-MAC of VMs
- Supported: Recovery reports for compliance
- Supported: REST API with automation examples
- Supported: DRaaS to over 350 Zerto Cloud Providers
- Supported: Replicate to and from Azure with RPOs in seconds
- Supported: Replicate to AWS with RPOs in seconds
- Supported: Multi-tenancy & traffic isolation
- Supported: vCloud Director Integration
- Supported: Self-service portals & role based access
- Supported: Mobile app and Analytics SaaS monitoring
- Supported: Multi-site management interface
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Zerto Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, All Virtual Machines your Hypervisor supports |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | Asia, Middle East, Europe, North America, Central America and the Carribbean, South America, Australia and Oceania |
Supported Languages | English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Spanish |
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VMware Site Recovery Manager, Dell RecoverPoint, and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform are common alternatives for Zerto.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Zerto are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Zerto Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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November 01, 2022
Zerto - making business continuity simple!
Zerto is deployed across multiple data centers and allows for VM replication, migration, and recovery. Zerto is managed by our Systems Engineering team within the IT department. Zerto addresses our business continuity need for a low RPO and fast RTO, while being storage agnostic. Zerto has an easy-to-use interface that allows new team members to quickly learn the system and perform recovery options. We successfully perform disaster recovery testing and Zerto plays a large role in that success.
- VM replication and recovery.
- VM migration.
- Cross VM platform migration.
- Integration with cloud!
- Moving a VM from one protection group to another could be simplified.
- I would like to see an executive-style report of recovery and testing for upper management.
- The ability to deploy Zerto as a virtual appliance, without the need for a windows server.
December 09, 2021
Zerto delivers the goods
Zerto is one of our primary tools for Disaster Recovery. We tier all of our virtual servers via priority, all of which are prioritized accordingly in Zerto for our backup frequency needs in the event we need to invoke our DR site. The fast connections and replication allow for a large amount of replicated data.
- Very good support staff - we never have an issue getting a problem resolved
- On the easier side of configuration and maintenance
- Very good Management Interface, maybe one of the best
- Can be expensive to scale
- Licensing could be better for smaller organizations
- Ability to customize more in the dashboard would be nice
December 04, 2021
Zerto for the Win!
High-value virtual servers are replicated from our primary production data center to our secondary fail-over data center. In effect, this represents the core of our disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Other, legacy backup and restore solutions were too slow to restore, and [the] speed of restore is among the most important features for our environment.
- Speed of recovery
- Reduction of RPO
- Ease of use
- Dependence on virtual protection groups
- Release of updates to align with VMware releases
- Product documentation could be improved
November 23, 2021
Excellent migration tool
We mainly use Zerto as migration from our customer's on-premises data center (which could be their own or a competitor's data center), but in fewer cases as a DRaaS solution for our customers.
- VM migrations with near-zero downtime
- Easy to deploy, use, and maintain
- Very fast and robust tool
- Zerto is too pricey compared to other solutions
- Zerto should also include P2V solutions in their platform
- ZVMs could ship as OVF/OVA appliances instead of installing them on top of Windows Server
November 23, 2021
Senior System Administrator Zerto Guy
Its real-time replication and worry-free DR solution is the reason we decided to use and retain this product. This makes our annual/quarterly DR tests a breeze and gives peace of mind for any true DR event. I recommend Zerto to any friends/colleagues that could utilize it at their companies.
- Real-Time Replication
- DR Testing
- Recovery Reporting
- Automation
- File Restore Capability - specifically the ability to restore Windows compressed/encrypted files or folders
- Increase storage compression/de-dupe
November 21, 2021
5 Star Enterprise Disaster Recovery Product! It just works!
We use Zerto for disaster recovery and site replication between our primary and DR datacenters. We are able to recover our virtual servers in near real-time from a failure or disaster event. Zerto helps us meet audit and regulatory needs in the banking industry for backup/recovery of our datacenters.
- Site to Site replication
- Near real-time replication and recovery from point in time
- Faster RPO & RTOs
- Easy to use, can restore a virtual machine with a few mouse clicks
- Easy DR testing
- Expensive licensing cost
- Language barrier depending on which support tech you receive.
November 16, 2021
Great software for Data Recovery
We are using Zerto for disaster recovery across the entire organization. With it, we are able to minimize downtime by making sure that we are able to bring up downed systems in a timely manner. It helps us to manage the virtual machines in a way that maximizes uptime and limits downtime.
- Monitor multiple devices
- Manage VM snapshots
- Migrate VM in a timely manner
- Ease of use
- Documentation
November 15, 2021
Zerto for fast DR recovery
We use Zerto for real-time replication of our production Hyper V virtual environment. It is a crucial part of our disaster recovery protection.
- Realtime replication
- Fast recovery
- Platform to platform conversation of virtual machines
- Easy file level recovery
- The GUI could be a little more intuitive.
- [I would appreciate] being able to call local scripts on virtual machines.
- [I would like] better/more customizable reporting.
November 13, 2021
Zerto
We use Zerto to failover our VMware environment from one data center to another. It's being used for the VMs that need to be part of our disaster recovery plan. One of the problems [in my opinion] is the size of the journaling.
- Failover of VMs from one data center to another
- Easy of use once setup
- Don't have to commit the failover until the process is ready.
- Would be nice if there was some way to reduce the size of the journal
November 12, 2021
Great solution for a company that needs failover protection that just simply works.
Zerto is being used to provide failover protection for our critical production servers. There have been some instances where we had to use it in the event of power outages at our main office. The affected servers were only unavailable for a short number of minutes, and most of that was waiting for them to update their DNS registrations. Zerto actually had the servers back up in seconds. We've also used it to migrate servers. At first, we were replicating the servers to a co-location, which was a secured data center where we had rented rack space. A few years ago, we decided to move our production servers to the colo and have the replicated instances at our main office (we only have the two locations) as the colo was a more stable environment. Zerto has built-in functionality for such migrations that makes the replicated instance the primary instance and then flips the protection. This made it quick and easy to do these migrations with very little downtime, even a server that was around 6TB in size (these locations were connected by only a 100 Mb private line at the time).
- Failover recovery
- Server migrations
- Restoring individual files from the replicated copy
- Make it easier to find and restore individual files (although this might have been improved already, we're not on the most recent version)
November 12, 2021
Zerto helps you sleep at night!
Our company has been using Zerto successfully for a little over 6 years. Zerto is used to backup VMs hosting our own developed secure customer application that is kept in a secure colocation and also to replicate the application programs and data to another DR site located at a diverse location for redundancy.
- The single web interface provides an immediate view of the environment.
- Zerto moves the server images from one colocation to another efficiently.
- Zerto provides an intuitive interface for restoring information.
- It provides for good alerting for offline VMs not being replicated.
- Pricing and discounts are an issue for me.
- Configuration settings should be adjusted to be more global.
- Online support is their preference, a live body sometimes is very beneficial.
November 12, 2021
Zerto, it just works!
We use Zerto to replicate our On-prem VMware datacenter to Azure for DR purposes. We have also used it plenty to consolidate our data centers as well as migrate VMs from disjoined organizations during acquisitions.
- Migrate from disjoined datacenters
- Replicate to Azure
- Help in crypto recovery
- Improved backup component. Would love to use Zerto for overall backup product but not quite there yet.
- Automatic minimum recommendations for Azure. Pain in the butt trying to find the right VM size to fit an onprem VM into Azure.
- Provide more guidance on proper setup.
November 12, 2021
Zerto saved my job, it can save yours too!
Shortly after starting at my company the CTO called a meeting with all of IT and told us that the company had not passed DR testing in 3 years and that if we didn't pass this year, a finding would be posted with the SEC and stay there for years. IT had little understanding of a couple of our applications at the time, and this had caused recovery testing failures. After looking at the market we decided to try Zerto. This almost magically allowed us to pass ALL of our Critical systems that year, and we have not had a single failure in 6 years now. The CTO later told me that he didn't believe Zerto would do what was promised and that had it not, it would have been a resume-generating event for me. I can't say enough how amazing and easy to implement Zerto is compared to the other DR solutions I've attempted to use [throughout] my 22 years in IT. You will be shocked and appalled when you see how easy this makes your DR testing and system migrations!
- DR testing and recovery
- System datacenter migration
- Backup recoveries
- Our greatest difficulty is that while Zerto allows you to assign new static IPs for failover and testing uniquely, it does not support updated DNS entries, this is useful in testing as the Names servers in a test environment are not usually available.
November 12, 2021
Zerto is the only option for RPO
Zerto has provided us with an RPO that no other product could provide. We use it for backup and DR for our most critical systems that require next to zero data loss. Zerto provides great built-in tools to test recovery without disrupting protection and every year we use it to test DR recovery.
- Next to zero data loss between protected server and recovery site.
- Testing recovery.
- Works great with cloud solutions.
- Maybe more detail on what it's doing during the progress bar.
- Better clarification on testing or recovering only one server in a VGP.
November 12, 2021
Zerto is a great DR option for highly virtualized environments
Zerto is currently performing our DR processes across the corporation. Over 100 VM servers are being protected including multiple user file servers. The average RPO is less than 10 seconds across all machines running between California and datacenters located in the Midwest. The platform is so easy to use that the number of staff with the knowledge to run the DR process greatly increased.
- Near real-time replication.
- Ease of use.
- Metrics
- Pricing
- Cloud configurations
November 12, 2021
Zerto for DR
My organization is currently using Zerto for our offsite DR location. We previously used CloudEndure which was purchased by AWS and lost its support expertise. Zerto is used for replicating critical servers to our cloud location for quick recovery.
- Support is quick to respond.
- Providing metrics for RTO.
- Quick Recovery times.
- The license model is one time price with annual support.
- Zerto did not have quick recovery times to AWS so I needed to move our DR location from AWS to Azure.
November 12, 2021
Zerto replication for Disaster Recovery and system migrations
We use Zerto for Disaster Recovery and it has been a wonderful solution. This includes on-prem from a data center on the West Coast to another on the East Coast, it also includes on-prem to Azure, and Azure to Azure replication. We use it across the organization to DR any x86 virtual systems.
- Virtual x86 DR replication
- RPO checkpoints
- Cyber Security recover to previous checkpoints.
- Individual file restores from replicated systems.
- Google Cloud Platform Native virtual system replication and protection.
November 12, 2021
Zerto FTW!
We use Zerto primarily as a DR/Replication engine, to frequently snapshot and replicate VMWare VM's between sites. Zerto is also very useful in that it allows easy 'rollback', e.g. if something happens unexpectedly and we don't have an easy/current/fresh snapshot to roll back to, and/or on occasion, if we're not certain where/when a bust occurred, we can spin up several instances/iterations of past machine states for analysis.
- Site to Site Replication.
- Recovery of VM's from recent timepoints.
- Modification of replicated VM's to different sites.
- IP, and/or other site specific, post replication/recovery modifications.
- The GUI could potentially benefit from a standalone option, vs VCenter Plugin.
- The VRA's which are placed on Hosts are pretty 'black box' ... visibility into their activity/behavior could prove useful.
November 12, 2021
Helps reduce your RPO
We utilize Zerto in our organization to replicate our VM workloads to an off-site location. Our typical RPO is usually less than 10 seconds.
- Replication of VM workloads to an off-site location
- Facilitating regular testing of our DR strategy
- Backup and retention could use some improvements.
- I would like to see support for off-line backup retention.
November 12, 2021
300 VPGs and disaster recovery piece of mind
We are using Zerto for our Disaster Recovery solution. It is being used across our entire international company. It ensures we'll be ready in case of a disaster.
- Test disaster recover with failovers.
- Replicate 1 to 1 from source to target with impressive RPOs.
- Well, we have been on 8.0U2 for a while now with no need to upgrade at this time. We feel it is performing as advertised. We have over 300 VPGs and our DR Tests are very large in size and Zerto has no problems at all during these tests. I don't have anything to add at this time.
November 12, 2021
Zerto was a win for our virtual environment providing flexibility for D/R & Migrations.
Zerto allows us to replicate our VM's to a secondary data center also gave us a tool to replicate VMs that had previously been using NFS storage and were migrated to Fiber Channel storage.
- Replication of VMs.
- Ease of failover.
- Integrates easily into environment.
- Calling outside scripts that are written in different code languages.
- Supporting dual roles in clusters.
November 12, 2021
Zerto is a solid performer in the disaster recovery space
Zerto is used by our institution in order to synchronize servers across our sites for Disaster Recovery in near real-time. Primarily used by the Information Technology department the solution benefits the organization as a whole. This enables us to quickly failover and recover at an alternate site in the event we lose a primary data center.
- Intuitive User Interface
- Flawless Failover
- Simple Deployment
- Great Support
- One to many replication is missing or lacking.
- Enhance post failover scripting capabilities.
November 12, 2021
Zerto...one of the best!
Zerto is hands down one of the best solutions for DR in our organization. We use Zerto to easily replicate between multiple sites including a cloud data center. This allows us multiple redundant paths with our data while achieving great RPO/RTO in our organization.
- Multi-site data redundancy.
- Easy of use.
- Cloud data backup.
- Can be expensive.
November 09, 2021
Zerto leaves zero doubt
We use Zerto for [the] replication of our VMs across the whole organization. Replication is made to a DR site 3 hours away with an RTO of 4 to 8 seconds. There is currently 48Tb being replicated. We hold normal copies for 3 days. We use Zerto's long-term retention and hold daily copies for 7 days, weekly copies for 1 month, monthly copies for 12 months, and yearly for 7 years. It fulfills our company [backup] policy for a financial institution.
- A single web interface is nice
- Alerting is good for offline machines not being replicated
- Able to use a mobile application to view status in real time
- Support is responsive and excellent
- Works on all hardware
- Not all tools work with Hyper-V, it is based on VMware
May 03, 2021
Zerto Product Review
When [Zerto] was introduced to me as one of the recovery tools, I tried and it seems it servers its purpose. To recover files from at least 1gb combined files. [Zerto] serves its intended purpose, to recover files.
- Files recovery
- Good gui
- Navigation in accessing the app
- Pricing
- GUI could improved more
- Navigation could improved more