Overview
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…
Zerto delivers the goods
Zerto for the Win!
Excellent migration tool
Senior System Administrator Zerto Guy
5 Star Enterprise Disaster Recovery Product! It just works!
Great software for Data Recovery
Zerto for fast DR recovery
Zerto
Great solution for a company that needs failover protection that just simply works.
Zerto helps you sleep at night!
Zerto, it just works!
Zerto saved my job, it can save yours too!
Zerto is the only option for RPO
Zerto is a great DR option for highly virtualized environments
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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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How to Recover from Ransomware with Zerto - 5 min Demo
Live Solution Demo: Microsoft and Zerto
Zerto vSphere Replication Demo - Josh Stenhouse - VMworld 2013
Bluelock Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Demo
Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 Demo
Zerto Analytics Demo
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What is Zerto?
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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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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- 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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(1-22 of 22)Zerto - making business continuity simple!
- 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.
Zerto delivers the goods
- 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
Excellent migration tool
- 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
Senior System Administrator Zerto Guy
- 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
Great solution for a company that needs failover protection that just simply works.
- 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)
Zerto helps you sleep at night!
- 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.
Zerto, it just works!
- 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.
Zerto for DR
- 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.
Zerto replication for Disaster Recovery and system migrations
- 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.
Helps reduce your RPO
- 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.
300 VPGs and disaster recovery piece of mind
- 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.
Zerto is a solid performer in the disaster recovery space
- Intuitive User Interface
- Flawless Failover
- Simple Deployment
- Great Support
- One to many replication is missing or lacking.
- Enhance post failover scripting capabilities.
Zerto...one of the best!
- Multi-site data redundancy.
- Easy of use.
- Cloud data backup.
- Can be expensive.
Zerto lives up to the hype!
- Minimal Recovery time.
- Isolated testing environment.
- The cost is on the expensive end.
- Support is mostly online.
Put Your Executives At Ease
- Live replication.
- Fail-over testing.
- Backup options.
- Notifications.
Why I like Zerto best
- 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.
Zerto replication solution
- 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
Zerto is great!
- DR
- Virtualized backup
- Replication
- Speed
- ROI
- TCO
Zerto makes BC/DR powerful and simple.
- 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.
Why should you switch to Zerto for DR?
- Simple installation process
- Single pane of glass for administration of replication and protection
- Hypervisor agnostic approach
- Quick updates
- Better support for SQL server high availability. Databases have to be removed from HA prior to upgrades of Zerto software.
Zerto the Easy but Powerful Replication Software
- The recovery time objectives can be within seconds and not minutes, thus your data loss is minimal if at all.
- The setup and configuration of Zerto is extremely easy and can be done with little exposure to it beforehand.
- The actual process of doing a failover is a one button click process.
- The ability to do multi-site replication cannot be restricted to a selected few virtual machines. It is an all or nothing approach.
- The minimum amount of virtual machines that you can initially start out with is higher than 5. This would not be feasible for small organizations.
- The license packs for the number of virtual machines that will be replicated are somewhat large and are not ideal for small organizations.
Zerto Virtual Replication, good stuff
- Fast replication
- Fairly simple to add new servers
- Simple interface
- Update of Zerto vms could be a little easier
- Seems to lose connectivity once in a while