Great solution for a company that needs failover protection that just simply works.
November 12, 2021

Great solution for a company that needs failover protection that just simply works.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Zerto

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)
  • Gave us the ability to provide near-zero RPO with a small infrastructure and a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
When we've needed it, support has been outstanding, especially when compared to support experiences with a number of other products. That's a big thing for us as we're a small company with limited IT personnel that does a lot with technology (more servers than people!).

Do you think Zerto delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Zerto's feature set?

Yes

Did Zerto live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Zerto go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Zerto again?

Yes

It required very little maintenance for us once it was set up, other than a tweak here and there. Easy to add or remove servers to protection when needed.
Licensing and pricing has been easy to manage. It's done simply by number of protected instances, no extra costs for management servers, etc. We're small; started with 10 protected servers, then moved up to 15, and now 20.
It is well suited for companies our size, I can't really speak for other companies' situations. Licensing is simple, licensed by protected servers.