We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster Recovery and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."
"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."
"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."
"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."
"Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy."
"The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."
"It works really well. It's simple to set up and works well. Moreover, disaster recovery to the cloud to our organization is very important. We actually had to use it three years ago, and it worked out well for us."
"When we replicated our data, I turned up the machine, and it was up in seconds. It blew my mind. I could not believe it."
"We've never had any major headaches with the virtual-protection groups. They seem to work exactly as they should. If there's ever an issue with replication, we know right away, so it's all been very reliable."
"The most valuable for us and for my company is that we are replicating most of our production customers to the DR site, and we can do testing whenever we want."
"We are in the process of switching over our production data center and Zerto has been a true time-saver that has cost us zero downtime."
"The ability to have a RPO of seconds has enabled us to restore data to just before an incident has occurred, which certainly saves a lot of time and money."
"There are a lot of valuable features. The basics of what it does to replicate and recover things within minutes is awesome. It's far above anything that any of the competition has. We offer other disaster recovery software but primarily use Zerto for recovery times and the number of recovery points because of how fast and easy it is. It's so much better."
"In our DR testing, Zerto allows us to go work on other things while it takes care of everything. That's valuable because we know that we can still hit all of our SLAs in a real disaster."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."
"The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."
"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."
"The cost is acceptable."
"The product should improve compute points."
"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"I need to get up to the latest version so I can move my journals to a particular LUN, saving them with a particular storage altogether, rather than with the virtual machine. This is not available until I upgrade, and I need to upgrade all my hypervisors. This would be something that would be nice to have if it could be used on older versions."
"The only thing we've noticed that needs improvement is the backend cleanup within VMware. There are some little issues there. I would like to see tighter integration with Vmware... orphan data is an issue within VMware. It doesn't clean up properly when you're moving stuff around."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The performance was generally good, but occasional lag disrupted the flow, leaving room for improvement."
"I had a couple of questions after deployment, but nothing major, about a couple of ways I could tweak it."
"We do have some sites that are very low-bandwidth sites. Zerto is able to set throttling in the solution, but the throttling is set at a site-wide level. In those instances that have very low bandwidth, I can't reduce the throttling on that site. It would be nice if there were a way to control the throttling by the protection group for a specific workload."
"The number-one area in which they need to improve their product is what I would call "automatic self-healing." This is related to running them at scale... We have 1,000 VRAs and if any one of their VRAs has a problem, goes offline, all of the customer protection groups and all of the customers that are tied to that VRA are not replicating at all. That means the RPO is slipping until somebody makes a manual effort to fix the issue. It has become a full-time job at my company for somebody to keep Zerto running all the time, everywhere, and to keep all the customers up and going."
Acronis Disaster Recovery is ranked 18th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 10 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 235 reviews. Acronis Disaster Recovery is rated 8.4, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Disaster Recovery writes "Easy to implement and provides good features like patch management and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Acronis Disaster Recovery is most compared with Arcserve UDP, Veeam Backup & Replication and Azure Site Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Zerto report.
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