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 …
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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…
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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% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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- Recommendations
Based on user reviews, the most common recommendations for Zerto are as follows:
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Try a POC (Proof of Concept) of Zerto to understand its ease and simplicity in disaster recovery. Users suggest experiencing the capabilities of Zerto firsthand through a POC to evaluate its effectiveness in protecting critical data and ensuring business continuity.
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Request a demo of Zerto to see all its capabilities. Users recommend attending a webinar or demo session to get an in-depth understanding of how Zerto can meet their specific needs and requirements. This allows them to assess whether Zerto's features align with their organization's goals.
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Consider integrating Zerto with Okta. Some users recommend leveraging the integration between Zerto and Okta, an identity and access management platform, to enhance security and streamline authentication processes. This can further strengthen data protection measures during disaster recovery scenarios.
Users find Zerto to be a valuable solution for disaster recovery purposes, with its intuitive interface, comprehensive backup capabilities, and ability to replicate data for different teams within an organization. They emphasize the importance of conducting thorough assessments, properly sizing the environment, and having manual processes in place for smooth transitions during DR scenarios. While some users caution that Zerto is not a backup software per se, they recognize its strong position in the market for seamless disaster recovery operations.
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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.
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 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, 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 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
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 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 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
February 10, 2020
The Easy Button for Disaster Recovery
We are using Zerto in our IT Department to ensure our hot site is ready for any disaster that occurs. Currently, we have a list of mission-critical applications that are replicated to our DR site via Zerto. As an Education provider for the state, we host a special education application that needs to be current with 0 loss in case of an outage. Zerto is helping us realize this goal with minimal downtime.
- Intuitive interface and easy activation of backup site.
- Rapid deployment initially as well as adding new systems.
- When I upgrade VMWare I have to manually stop the zerto vms before they can enter maintenance mode.
- Maybe a little cheaper renewal.
January 27, 2020
Zerto keeps us up.
We employ Zerto in our main data center as our emergency back up system. Many times we have had issues or maintenance needed and with a few clicks, we have been able to failover to Zerto. It keep us up and running- it has really saved our bacon and made it easy to keep our up-time at 100%
- Zerto handles the details in the initial setup, so it's ready to go when it's needed.
- The fail over is instantaneous! No downtime.
- Zerto IS a little more pricey than other options, but you get what you pay for!
January 17, 2020
Zerto lives up to the hype!
Zerto is being used across the entire organization. It provides us with an enterprise-level of backup and recovery for all our critical production servers and applications. Our disaster recovery plan heavily relies on the Zerto technology in which we are successfully able to failover to our disaster site and achieve a very low recovery point objective, which takes actually only tens of seconds.
- Minimal Recovery time.
- Isolated testing environment.
- The cost is on the expensive end.
- Support is mostly online.
Zerto is well suited for a business in need of a low recovery point objective, as set in their disaster recovery plan. It's also suited in an organization that has minimal resources dedicated to support DR technology. Our setup was minimal, and everyday management has been very minimal. Our setup was for about 50 servers, and was completed in under a week.
November 20, 2019
Zerto is a must for DR Replication
Zerto is being used as a Disaster Recovery solution to replicate mission-critical virtual machines to a secondary site. This is done by the use of journal-based transactions. This allows us to fail over our systems in a matter of minutes compared to a matter of hours. This has reduce the the company's RTO.
- Journal based replication.
- Disaster failover and recovery.
- Automated network reconfiguration after initial setup.
- There are some configuration settings that could be adjusted to be more global after editing.
November 06, 2019
Great DR Solution
We use Zerto as our DR solution to our DR location as well as Microsoft Azure. We use it to streamline our DR strategy with our business continuity plan. IT has utilized Zerto primarily for DR as well as offloading computing load to DR.
- I can't stress how important it is for Disaster Recovery.
- Integration with Microsoft Azure to flip VM's over to Azure as one of our sites.
- Ease of use to setup Virtual Protection Group.
- 5 minutes of incremental snapshots to restore VM's.
- Support needs improvement in terms of response time and provides appropriate solutions.
- Bugs need to be sorted out with missing configuration on the VPG after it has been created.
- Better reporting window to generate more usual information.
January 12, 2019
Simple, reliable, and easy to use
We use Zerto replication to provide both an HA and a DR capability for all live servers. This enables the business to have a live copy of servers available to protect against local individual server failure and also a separate copy to protect the business in case of a site failure. In the case of local failure, we use journaling to roll back to any point in time over a two week period. This provides robust protection for all live servers.
- The ability to replicate only delta changes enables us to replicate nearly 200 servers with minimal bandwidth usage and so reduces excessive network costs.
- Being licensed to replicate multiple copies of a server enables us to keep costs down and use a single product for both DR and HA
- Journaling enables simple point in time recovery to cope with user errors that would otherwise require a lengthy restore from backups
- For some servers, the 30-day journaling now replaces traditional backup products, saving cost and enabling speedy recoveries
- I’d like to see improvements to the usage graphs so I could dig deeper into network bandwidth usage with the ability to see what VPG is using most of the bandwidth
- The ability to just failover a single server in a VPG would be useful, as this would reduce the number of VPG that have to be created
- Bulk editing of failover IP addresses would be helpful
September 24, 2018
Why I like Zerto best
We are a Disaster Recovery specialty company providing the spectrum of DR - BC planning to implementation, including best of class products to enhance our clients' ability to restore data quickly and minimize downtime. As a Zerto reseller and MSP, we provide a DR site for our customers. Specifically, Zerto provides easy recovery of a failed virtual machine, with the restore point option up to 14 days and a high granularity of restore points.
Zerto can provide One-2-Many backups up to 3 local and/or DR sites. With infections like Crypto-Locker, Zerto provides a fast resumption of a VM (or group of VMs) at the click of a few buttons, to select the machine and time of the restore. And Zerto does this without snapshotting the VMware environment. Zerto can also [move] to Hyper-V in a similar manner and move Hyper-V to VMware or vice-versa.
- Anyone with a large disk (VMDK) knows the issues of VMware snapshots. Most backup software is a "point in time backup" that uses snapshots. While the backup can be run multiple times per day the stress of the snapshot on the host and storage is eliminated by the continuous protection of Zerto log replication.
- A client had a the disks on a VM go missing for some reason. We had them "flip the switch" for a real fail over and press the fail over button. The VM on our DR site started to come alive as the VM at the customer site was brought down. When the DR VM was fully up, automatic reverse replication started. The DR machine was available in a few minutes (to take into account different host hardware) for access. One the vm at both sites were in sync, we had the customer again repeat the fail over process and the DR site VM was turned off and the Production site VM was brought back on line. This was a 200 GB VM and the whole process was finished in about 3 hours.
- Zerto also allows for "Test" fail overs that can be configured on many different functions, such as host, datastore, network and IP usage. Configuring the IPs is crucial to avoid inadvertent site cross contamination of the same VM.
- Zerto can also retrieve files from any VM disk on the DR site without starting a VM. Very handy for retrieving files or directories.
- Since Zerto is running continuous log replication, changes on the production VM are nearly instantaneously copied to the DR site. As with any data process, having sufficient bandwidth for "churn" peaks minimizes the delay in updating the DR site.
- Zerto is in the process of update their "Offsite Backup" process. This is a scheduled snapshot of a VM that extends the "point in time" beyond the up to 14 days of granular recovery. For those wanting to have a "compliance copy" of a vm (db or exchange or files) this is mechanism that will be improving.
- Zerto is an evolving product that takes user input seriously. They encourage recommended improvements and features from customers.
- One thing Zerto can't do is backup a turned off VM. Many snapshot based backup software products can backup a turned off VM.
- While many backup products are install, create backups and go, Zerto requires a bit of planning on the initial network configuration. Installing the software and configuration is actually easy, setting up a VPN between sites needs planning, particularly for MSPs. Once the VPN is set up the rest is quite easy. This is being addressed.
September 19, 2018
Zerto replication solution
We use Zerto to replicate our environment for one of our customers. It provides us with the ability to failover to our other location environment and bring it up within minutes in a disaster situation or when we perform maintenance
- They have a failover testing option which allows for us to check for errors before we do live failover
- During failover there is very little downtime in our environment
- Very good at replicating data over quickly for practically zero loss of data
- The system errors on failover when there is a backup being processed
- Some room for improvement on time it takes to verify data after failover
July 14, 2018
Zerto - Unparalleled Protection
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Zerto is used by the IT department to provide protection of a virtual environment. One main distinction is that it provides solid protection for single servers or a cluster of servers that are part of an application. It does a phenominal job in this task and I have been able to save countless hours using it. From recovering from botched upgrades, corrupted files, and even virus infections to leveraging the DR as a test bed for upgrades. It has a wide variety of uses.
- Journaling
- WAN optimization
- Application Consistency
- Full site failover processing
- Reports on what is protected and where and protection levels
June 20, 2018
Zerto is great!
We use Zerto to replicate our VMware environment, which has grown substantially over the past several years or so. We have an off-prem DR site that we replicate both on-site data and cloud data brought in from a wide array of formats and organizations. We love the functionality of the automation and the ease of management. It really helps free up time.
- DR
- Virtualized backup
- Replication
- Speed
- ROI
- TCO
June 06, 2018
Zerto makes BC/DR powerful and simple.
Zerto is our primary high availability and DR solution. We use it across our entire organization to provide continuous replication that protects our environment. We also use Zerto to migrate our VMs between data centers and cloud providers. The simple interface and ease of being able to get it set up and configured let us quickly react to changes in our virtual environment.
- It is simple to set up and use. In my opinion, one of the most important functions of a tool is its interface. If you have the best product in the world but it takes an arm and a leg to configure and a doctorate degree to use, then the product isn't worth very much.
- The continuous replication is done very well. The failover and failback process runs smoothly.
- This has less to do with the product than the company, but Zerto as a company really listens to their customer base. We've always had a very good interpersonal experience with their support and sales teams. Having great people behind their product is definitely one of Zerto's strengths.
- The price point and minimum license requirements would make it difficult for a smaller organization to adopt Zerto.
- I'm trying to figure out how to integrate it with SQL, but currently, I've found other DR methods for SQL still work better.