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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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 |
|---|---|
| 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 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
- Compared to previous method of server restoration, the time needed is significantly less and much quicker.
4
Mainly monitoring if backups are being done reliably. Also generating reports on backups for auditing purposes.
2
I and one other person are all that is needed to maintain the system. It simply works.
- Reports for auditing needs
- Real time status on a mobile application
- Not a complicated web interface
- For testing we have used alternative backup machines and locations, all worked
- Recovered files for others using Zerto
- Tested new network circuits with a recovered test machine
- Backup to the cloud are anticipated in the future
Yes
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A key feature is the reporting ability.
Originally started using the product through an acquisition of another company. We gave it a try and it really worked well. So we purchased more licenses and integrated [them] into our backup policy.
- Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Activate and Rubrik
Selected Zerto because it met our needs. Plus it was hardware agnostic. Definitely a good product with very good support.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Crosslinking data and accounts between our management server and Zerto
Yes. needed 24/7 support and it is available with the premium purchase.
Yes
Eventually, not immediately
Had an issue with VMs not replicating and after hours support stayed with me over the weekend and resolved the issue.
- Restoration routines are easy to perform
- Auditing/documenting restorations is nice
- When things go offline, sometimes the error reported is ambiguous
Yes
Very well. Use it more than I thought I would
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.
- For us, we are having more customers with RPO and RTO concerns liking the capabilities provided by Zerto.
- We have built a DR Vmware cluster for our DR business where we maintain a "Private Cloud" for our customers.
- Zerto is our premier offering, and a customer sites grow, we and Zerto will grow with them.
Zerto solves issues with snapshot-based backups and provides continuous data protection up to 14 days with an astonishing granularity. Zerto's One-2-Many can provide local and offsite backups with near real-time and fast restore of a VM
Zerto does not backup physical machines or VMs that are turned off, but there are other products to do that.
Other backup products are stepping up with ease of deployment and small organizations would find them a little easier to use as there are fewer configuration options.
No
We get great support
For a particular problem, they have called in a developer to assist with a unique cleanup issue.
They also recommended a free Vmware tool to assist in maintenance.