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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

8 out of 10
November 13, 2021
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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 …
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Zerto, it just works!

9 out of 10
November 12, 2021
Incentivized
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 …
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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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Product Demos

How to Recover from Ransomware with Zerto - 5 min Demo

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Live Solution Demo: Microsoft and Zerto

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Zerto vSphere Replication Demo - Josh Stenhouse - VMworld 2013

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Bluelock Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Demo

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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 Demo

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Zerto Analytics Demo

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Product Details

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

Zerto Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of AnalyticsScreenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Failover TestScreenshot of vSphereScreenshot of VPG List

Zerto Video

Complete VM Protection with Zerto in 90 seconds

Zerto Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, All Virtual Machines your Hypervisor supports
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesAsia, Middle East, Europe, North America, Central America and the Carribbean, South America, Australia and Oceania
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)70%
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Reviews and Ratings

(119)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Based on user reviews, the most common recommendations for Zerto are as follows:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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Reviews

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Tim Lillis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is perfect for a hot site. The button is so simplistic you literally just flip a switch to bring up your DR replicated site. It is also very valuable for the developers who want to test out new code, or IT engineers wanting to test new patches. You can easily spin up a fully functioning test site, practice anything you need, then nuke it. On the flip side, it is not your basic file restore product. This is hot data not at rest.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is well suited for the consolidation of data centers and/or replicating data between sites for disaster recovery. These are two great examples of where Zerto shines and out performs other platforms. You are also able to use dissimilar hardware since Zerto works at the VM level versus the at the hardware level.
January 29, 2020

Zerto to the rescue

Christopher Mills | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is highly suited in environments where you need to get your tier 0/1 systems up and running as quickly and easily as possible. With the low RTO/RPO times, the ease of administration and fail-over, and also the overall functionality of how Zerto's runbook works. Not many applications can do what Zerto does and give you that warm and fuzzy feeling when it comes to DR.
January 27, 2020

Zerto keeps us up.

Jon Shurtliff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In cases where keeping your environment available 100% of the time, Zerto is a magnificent tool and makes things so easy. I can’t sleep so much better at night knowing that we have a solution that within a couple of clicks will allow us to get back up and running.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Stephen Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is great for an environment that needs to have real-time system replication for their DR plan. Any company critical systems that are constantly changing throughout the day. With the new features added to Zerto it could also be used as a backup solution for your virtual environment.
November 06, 2019

Great DR Solution

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's well suited for any environment that requires business continuity and meeting SLA for a production environment. Preventing prolonged downtime and restoring services ASAP. I can't think of any scenarios where Zerto is not suitable.
Brian Marcum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is well suited if you are wanting to replicate your critical data quickly to another data center. This provides quick and easy turn up in case of a disaster. If you are just looking to backup your data and don't need to quickly turn up the DR site after a disaster, Zerto isn't necessary.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's fantastic for anything you wouldn't want to lose any data on, such as an ERP. It is far too expensive, however, to use as a DR option for more static VMs, or VMs where a daily or twice-daily backup is sufficient.
Neil Taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto replication is great for the majority of live servers and enables us to successfully have high availability at a reasonable price. Not having synchronous replication is not an issue in most cases, but is a limitation for some of the SQL servers.
September 24, 2018

Why I like Zerto best

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
If you have very large VMDKs (Virtual Machine Disk), failing snapshots or failing Microsoft VSS processes, then Zerto is the product.
If you have limited CPU or storage space or speed, Zerto is the answer.
If you need "nearly" instant RPO and very fast RTO, Zerto is the answer.
If you don't have the platform issues or are not concerned with RPO and RTO, and cost is a driver, then other products can have an advantage.
Sergiy Moot | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The speed of WAN replication is great. It is faster compared to RecoverPoint and 20 VMs replicating over a 20Mbps VPN, which has a RPO less than one minute. Of course, your mileage will vary.

Make sure you have enough bandwidth!
September 19, 2018

Zerto replication solution

Ryhlen Schoeberl | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for our company that cannot have downtime on their environment. It provides the assurance that there is the less downtime as well as little to no data loss. If you are a small business you might not use all the functionality but it is there if you need it
Jay Stelmach | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zerto is terrific at protecting individual servers and application clusters BUT it lacks the ability to control a full site recovery without manual intervention. If you have applications that require very limited downtime with almost no loss of data, then this is a great product for you. A failover acts as a reboot of the system, but you're only looking at a 10 second loss of data (even when protecting 9TB of data).
June 20, 2018

Zerto is great!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Zerto is very well suited for a situation in which you need to replicate data or info to a DR site, whether on or off-prem, or in the cloud. This software platform has a lot of cloud capabilities, and really makes sense for a lot of organizations trying to make their DR more approachable and consistent.
Greg Goss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto does an amazing job of making sure our critical systems stay up and protected. I'm not sure I'd want to spend the money that would be required on a license for a development server, but for those systems you just can't live without, Zerto is our go-to product.
David Judice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think anyone in a virtual environment that needed replication would be very satisfied with Zerto Virtual Replication software. It was so easy to get installed, setup and running and is very reliable. We have had no issues with it and are very, very happy with the results. I would recommend it to anyone needing virtual server replication.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have to initiate a failure to your Disaster Recovery site in case of inclement weather or just keeping your doing a once a year fail over to your DR site then this process will be easy to achieve and carry out. Also if you experienced an attack of ransomware you can use Zerto to do a file level recovery to restore only those file(s) that have been affected.
Philip Reetz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
You always need real disaster recovery protection in virtual environments; it is a perfect match. I do not recommend it to use as the only backup solution. Since Zerto does not use snapshots it can work with other tools like Veeam Backup Reviews without any problems.
David Yezersky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is well suited for VMware shops that want/need replication without purchasing SRM. Zerto's cost is on a per VM basis, which can inhibit some applications, but there is no dependency on size, so a VM can be 1GB or 12TB, and still be licensed for backup and replication. Environments that have recoverpoint for EMC storage will like this tool, because of it's ease of use. Shops can allow VMware admins to manage the tool and thusly manage VMware failovers and failbacks. Zerto does work with Hyper-V as well, so they are covered by the major hypervisors.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto is a great solution for those looking for hypervisor level replication that do not have the budget for having a powerful/expensive SAN in production AND also in DR, since it's storage agnostic. However, for firms that are not 100% virtualized, this solution might not be a good fit because you still need to have a method to replicate the physical machines.
Chris John | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zerto Virtual replication is well suited for environments that have a lot of virtual machines. It's very fast and easy to use. It can work with not only VMware, but with hyperV and others. If you have all physical servers (which, at this point, why?) then this probably is not the right replication software for you.
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