Simple, reliable, and easy to use
January 12, 2019
Simple, reliable, and easy to use
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Zerto Virtual Replication
We use Zerto replication to provide both an HA and a DR capability for all live servers. This enables the business to have a live copy of servers available to protect against local individual server failure and also a separate copy to protect the business in case of a site failure. In the case of local failure, we use journaling to roll back to any point in time over a two week period. This provides robust protection for all live servers.
Pros
- The ability to replicate only delta changes enables us to replicate nearly 200 servers with minimal bandwidth usage and so reduces excessive network costs.
- Being licensed to replicate multiple copies of a server enables us to keep costs down and use a single product for both DR and HA
- Journaling enables simple point in time recovery to cope with user errors that would otherwise require a lengthy restore from backups
- For some servers, the 30-day journaling now replaces traditional backup products, saving cost and enabling speedy recoveries
Cons
- I’d like to see improvements to the usage graphs so I could dig deeper into network bandwidth usage with the ability to see what VPG is using most of the bandwidth
- The ability to just failover a single server in a VPG would be useful, as this would reduce the number of VPG that have to be created
- Bulk editing of failover IP addresses would be helpful
- ROI has been fantastic, as the product is relatively cheap and enables us to maintain very high server availability
- The ability to provide both HA and DR with a single product enables the business to keep costs down and enhance uptime
- Removal of the need for a separate backup product when using journaling saves on the separate cost of another product to purchase, run, and manage
- VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and EMC RecoverPoint
Zerto replication is a lot cheaper than any of the completion, it’s simple to set up and use, requires minimal training for users, and its simple interface and groups using VPG enables a granular setup.
It just does what it says and is simple, reliable, and relatively cheap
It just does what it says and is simple, reliable, and relatively cheap
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