Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Dell Technologies is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 4.9% mindshare in DRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 7.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines compete in data protection and disaster recovery for virtual environments. HPE Zerto Software has an upper hand regarding ease of use and value, while Dell RecoverPoint excels in advanced recovery features.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers streamlined management, real-time data integration, and flexible data recovery. Dell RecoverPoint provides comprehensive recovery, point-in-time snapshots, and continuous data protection for complex recovery scenarios.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto's primary areas for growth include enhancing the user interface to reduce learning curves, expanding integrations with other platforms, and offering customizable recovery workflows. Dell RecoverPoint could improve through simplified setup processes, a more intuitive management console, and reduced resource usage during replication tasks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software features a straightforward deployment and strong support, facilitating easy setup and transitions. Dell RecoverPoint, equipped with a robust feature set, may demand more deployment time and expertise. Its customer service, while efficient, could be more intuitive compared to HPE's offering.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software provides competitive setup costs, yielding significant ROI due to its efficiency and rapid implementation. Dell RecoverPoint, with potentially higher upfront costs, justifies the investment through its extensive functionality and tailored solutions, offering strong ROI for complex operations.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. HPE Zerto Software Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

346

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 4.9%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 7.3%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	7.3%
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines	4.9%
Other	87.8%

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Featured Reviews

Alex McIntosh

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Seamless data protection and IP address management streamline server failover

I recommend Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. I work for a financial institution, and it does what we need it to do. I would rate the product eight out of ten. For improvement, I suggest better orchestration management for easier failovers. I would rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.

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Proby Patel

Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Helps simulate a DR failover commit and perform DR tests much faster

Near-synchronous replication has some trade-offs. With near-synchronous replication, we get almost all the information up to date at the destination site, but the trade-off is that sometimes that could take a lot of CPU cycles, network bandwidth, and troubleshooting. A few versions back with Zerto, there were some bugs in the software that were causing constant replication back and forth that was driving a lot of network bandwidth utilization over the network, and we did not know why until we found out it was a bug. It depends on what your business or application really requires. If it requires near-synchronous, you have to enable that. However, if Zerto can make it easier or have a smaller footprint by sending larger payloads or having network compression, it will be a little bit easier. On wide area networks and local area networks, that would definitely be preferred. We have had some issues running Linux virtual machines on the new version. There were some issues with virtual replication adapters on Cisco UCS hosts running VMware vCenter 8. There were several things we had to do with installation and getting the replication adapters to work. Integration with Keycloak for Active Directory authentication using new Linux VMs was challenging, but it is now functioning well.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The installation is straightforward if the version you have is compatible with your infrastructure."

"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."

"Point-in-time recovery and ease of deployment are valuable."

"It is a very simple tool to use and offers flexibility in using the tool for recovery and transitioning from one state to another."

"The most valuable feature is that it is journal-based and you don't have to replicate a lot of data."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

"The product's initial setup phase was quite easy to install."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

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"I've found the migration feature very valuable."

"It does what it's purported to do, which is to provide continuous data protection. We have a five-second RPO. It's definitely doing its job."

"One of the most valuable features, something that I wasn't even anticipating, is the file backups. We weren't even considering Zerto to do restores, but it actually is able to do that. Eventually, we could just use this as our backup solution."

"It has enabled DR protection for virtual appliances with minimal administrator time."

"The most valuable feature of HPE Zerto Software was its failover capabilities."

"The features I appreciate the most about HPE Zerto Software are the automated failover and orchestration, and then the journal for point-in-time recovery."

"I found VM level replication and being able to group the VM levels to be valuable. I like not having to worry about whether a particular VM is in the right storage group; some of those sorts of things would trip us up previously."

"The communication between the VM and the secondary data center is the most valuable feature."

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Cons

"The solution currently supports only VMware."

"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

"Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."

"It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side."

"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

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"It is expensive."

"I would like Zerto to add support for VMware's lifecycle manager."

"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."

"Overall, Zerto is doing a very good job. We have experienced a few downtimes on networking. Most of the time, they come up with a solution immediately to sort out any challenge that may affect data flow or data migration. It does not happen frequently. We might experience it once in two months, but when we face any downtime, it does not impact the data."

"While going in, we were looking at the backup tool so that we had a DR tool and a backup tool, but they stopped developing their backup solution built into it. That was a bummer for us, so now, we have a DR solution, and we have a backup solution."

"I'm not sure if it has throttling, meaning, what's going over the wire and how we can throttle that to reduce the amount of data that's going across the bandwidth. I can't remember if that's something that's in this product. It might be in the more recent version."

"Zerto's price has room for improvement."

"I don't like the evacuation process. The host evacuation process could be a little simpler too. It takes our maintenance a bit longer, when we are doing host maintenance, because we still need to evacuate the vRAs manually. I know they tried to make it more automatic, but it is not quite there yet."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"This is an expensive product."

"We subscribe to their annual license package and we have tier one support with them."

"We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto."

"The cost is one of the only drawbacks of Zerto because it's very high, and the overall impact of the solution on our organization is relatively low. This is why we are trying to figure out if another product could fulfill the same role for cheaper."

"I think everything can be cheaper. Pricing limited our ability to use Zerto as much as we'd like, but that's not why we haven't adopted it as our primary backup solution."

"The product's pricing is the one area where it is less competitive."

"Zerto is slightly expensive, but we do see the value in it."

"Pricing is one area where there could be some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model. Or it could be a model based on the amount of storage space you're protecting."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	89
Large Enterprise	198

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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What is your primary use case for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

I was actually just having a quick look to compare some solutions, but we are going to stick with what we currently have, which is Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ( /products/dell-recoverpoi...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing standpoint, HPE Zerto Software was reasonably priced initially compared to SRM, but now it is almost on par, if not better.

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Overview

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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