Item: HPE Zerto Software
Rating: 9
Author: Miranda de Wilde

Overall Satisfaction with Zerto

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Zerto for disaster recovery, special in cases where a very low RPO is required. This is mostly from VMware to VMware. This what Zerto can do very well. We also use Zerto for migrations from (mostly) Hyper V to VMware. Zerto can manage as one of the few to do this from Hyper V to VMware whitout to much trouble. A very good part is in this case is also the there is a 'provider' part but also a customer part and the customer can do it's own migrations en (test) fail-overs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Low RPO
Hyper-V VMWare Migrations
Customer portal
Test fail-over

Cons

No refresh button to import new config from VMWare
Ghost VRA are not always removable
High license costs

Return on Investment

Positive, with a site down, the recovery was just a few seconds and vm's came back up
Migration of very sensitive vm's from different platforms went smoothly
In one rear case de migratie went wrong (because of the virtualization platform) Zerto got stuck on this. The replication needed to be new initiated.

Usability

The product does do what is promise. The support is always very fast en they now what they are doing. Zerto is a very good Disaster recovery tool, but you van usr is very well as a migration tool. license are availible in differtent types, so it should be possible to fit every situation.

Alternatives Considered

Migrations from Hyper-V to VMWare. This something VMware cloud availiblity not can do. Whit migrations from several platforms to VMWare, this is realy a missing part in VMware Cloud availity and a real + in Zerto. The RPO en RTO are almost the same, butnif you realy want 'the best' I would advice Zerto instead of VCDA

Key Insights

Do you think HPE Zerto Software delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HPE Zerto Software's feature set?

Yes

Did HPE Zerto Software live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of HPE Zerto Software go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HPE Zerto Software again?

Yes

Other Software Used

VMware vCenter, VMware Cloud Director, Hyper-V

Likelihood to Recommend

Zerto is well used in cases where you need a very low RPO and you want you want to be in control just as your customer. The same counts if you want to migrate from platform A to platform B. It's less suited for companies that cannot afford high costs. The license is not cheap, but you can do a lot with Zerto and the support is very good at Zerto.

HPE Zerto Software Feature Ratings

Comments

Please log in to join the conversation

Zerto for disaster recovery and migration use!