We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Rubrik and others in Backup and Recovery Software."It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."
"If we lost our data center and had to recover it, Zerto would save us a great deal of time. In our testing, we have found that recovering the entire data center would be completed within a day."
"The stability is good, and I have never had any customers say anything bad about it. Some have used it for years and have not had any problems."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"The low RPO times of about four to eight seconds are very nice and very valuable to us."
"Journaling is by far the most valuable feature. We have used it several times for customers who have gotten ransomware and had to do a rollback. Having the right time period was important. Some of them had their backups encrypted. So, they didn't encrypt the Zerto machine seven days previously, and we were able to bring that back up."
"For us, the most valuable features are the quick upload time and how the sync works... We have VMware SRM and Veeam, and they have been pretty slow and sluggish."
"Live replication and up to the second type of failover are valuable. The fact that we can do test failovers and failbacks is important for our ISO certification."
"For most use cases, the failover time is a handful of minutes, if that. A single user can run the system."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"The time between releases is too long. Zerto doesn't seem to really keep up with the products with which they need to be compatible. For instance, the 9.5 updates 3 took about 90 days to come out after the latest version of vCenter 7.0 update 3 was released."
"With the VPG (virtual protected group) it would be nice if you could pick individuals in the grouping instead of having to failover the whole group."
"There are certain things about the user interface that could be a little bit more user-friendly."
"I wish they would...develop their PowerShell module to be more robust. So instead of having to rely on the API to actually include a PowerShell command, it would let you create VPGs, delete VPGs, modify VPGs, etc. This would ease the automation effort of deployment and decommissioning and I'd really appreciate that."
"The only thing I really don't like about Zerto is that the ZVM has to be a Windows server. I can spin up any OBA template whenever I want to, but if it has an OS that's tied to it, then I have to involve the OS team from my company. That drives me crazy."
"The solution is very expensive."
"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."
"The biggest improvement would be exporting VPGs and a configuration of VPGs, as well as increasing or improving their IP customization rule set."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 33rd in Backup and Recovery Software with 1 review while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 96 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 9.0, while Zerto is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Excellent support, easy to deploy, stable, and fast". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Nakivo, Veeam Agent for Linux, Acronis Backup and MSP360 Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with VMware SRM, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Rubrik and Azure Site Recovery.
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