HPE Zerto Software vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nutanix are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while Nutanix is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 6.2% mindshare in DRS, compared to Nutanix’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and Nutanix Disaster Recovery are competitive solutions in the disaster recovery category. Based on available data, Nutanix Disaster Recovery might have the upper hand in features while HPE Zerto Software offers more favorable pricing and support.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers continuous data protection, real-time ransomware detection, and near-zero RTO, enhancing data resilience. Nutanix Disaster Recovery excels in seamless integration with hyper-converged infrastructure, advanced automation capabilities, and offers local storage solutions that optimize performance.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could enhance its integration capabilities with certain platforms and improve service features for Hyper-V environments. Users indicate the need for better cloud-based control. Nutanix Disaster Recovery might need further improvements in simplifying its setup process and potentially reducing initial setup costs. Users may benefit from more flexible pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nutanix Disaster Recovery boasts a streamlined deployment process with high integration ease, especially for Nutanix hardware users. It is praised for its intuitive setup and strong customer service. HPE Zerto Software is noted for its straightforward deployment process but may lag behind in integration ease with diverse platforms. Both companies provide robust customer support, but Nutanix might have an edge with its emphasis on service.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software is generally viewed as more affordable, appealing to businesses focused on reducing operational costs and maximizing ROI. Nutanix Disaster Recovery involves higher setup costs, but customers often find the comprehensive feature set and operational efficiency justify the additional investment, leading to substantial long-term ROI benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

355

Ranking in other categories

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

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

22nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 6.2%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is 1.6%, up from 0.4% 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	6.2%
Nutanix Disaster Recovery	1.6%
Other	92.2%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

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Vijay-Patel

Technical asst. at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Integrated backups and orchestration have protected critical workloads with zero downtime

Pricing is always a consideration because nowadays the price has increased a lot. We bought our system five years ago and we paid in advance, so we are not yet affected by the price increase. However, we are planning to buy another solution in the very near future because the old one is now phasing out. We are planning to buy a replacement of the existing infrastructure and we are facing a lot of cost issues because they increased the price. Previously it was per socket. Now they moved to per core with many other restrictions. Our experience over the last five years has been very positive, but nowadays we find that Nutanix support is degraded. They started reducing their support. Their new functionality is not as stable. Nutanix has added Kubernetes cluster creation, segmentation, and micro-segmentation. Even their support people are not fully knowledgeable. Their support people are trained for VM-based systems, but now their own internal services are running using Kubernetes and containerization. Their support staff does not have enough knowledge to provide proper support. This may be a transition period where a lot of new functionality has been added and the support staff is not yet well acquainted with it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Zerto provides our customers with the ability to continue work, even if something happens to their office or data center."

"Stable disaster recovery solution with a very simple setup and fast failover."

"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."

"Zerto enables us to do sandboxing failovers. You can run tests on a production environment in a sandbox and spin up a copy of your actual production environment in a few hours. When you're done with it, you can click a couple of buttons, and it's all blown away. You don't need to worry about reverting changes or interfering with your on-prem production environments."

"Leaving Veeam aside and comparing Zerto with our existing backup functionality, forget it."

"The core functionality is what's beautiful about it."

"I work for a data center solutions company and DR was always the toughest challenge, and when we stumbled upon Zerto 4 years ago it became our standard recommendation in these projects."

"Overall, I would give Zerto a ten out of ten."

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"The main benefits I've seen from using Nutanix Disaster Recovery include its single platform, which is significantly better than VMware, offering improved security, scalability, and multiple communication options."

"The initial setup of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is straightforward and easy."

"The product is very simple and very easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the reliability and scalability of being able to swing our workloads across the country."

"For the last five years, we have had zero downtime."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery can be used for snapshots, backup, and disaster recovery."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Disaster Recovery is the local storage solution, which significantly boosts performance, especially when transitioning from traditional architecture."

Cons

"If something happens, and we are out and about, I would like to be able to interface with it on our mobile phones. That would be great."

"In newer versions, the success rate compared to older versions is quite low. I have tried to implement Zerto version ten in my environment, but for some reason, multiple errors occur, forcing me to revert to the previous version."

"I would like Zerto to provide more detailed information when there is an issue."

"Zerto needs to improve significantly on the cost factor."

"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it."

"Adding more features would be great, such as hardware version upgrades upon failover to the data centers and VM tools upgrades."

"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."

"It could benefit from tighter integration with VMware."

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"Nowadays we find that Nutanix support is degraded. They started reducing their support."

"The solution's bandwidth utilization can be improved further."

"The dashboard could be a bit refreshed, and some configuration parts could be less confusing."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery needs to have a feature that can automate manual tasks."

"The major issue with Nutanix is its appliance-based model, which can lead to vendor lock-in."

"The product must allow users to create a production domain on the main site in one hypervisor and a backup site on another."

"The solution should include a standard license for the object level and file level."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the cost is reasonable for VM licensing. It's not outside the scope of an enterprise product."

"Zerto previously had a perplexing licensing structure, but they have since resolved it by implementing a unified license."

"The pricing is very reasonable."

"The pricing for this solution could be cheaper. They have two licensing tiers. When we purchased it, they didn't have a license for the cloud model. Certain things that I used to get with the basic licensing are no longer available. They are only available in the Cloud. Overall, the licensing model could be simplified."

"The only negative part that I have seen so far has been the cost. It is kind of pricey, but you get what you pay for. Zerto is a lot faster than other solutions and you get enhanced performance."

"The pricing seems really good. We're an enterprise customer, so we get all the bells and whistles."

"If it were easier to license, and to scale it out a little bit more economically, that'd be a godsend. At the end of the day, my druthers would be to have all 200 of our servers protected by this platform. But for a company our size, that stretches our IT budget and it just doesn't make economic sense."

"We paid a big investment upfront with renewal fees each year."

More HPE Zerto Software pricing and cost advice

"The solution’s pricing is good."

"Nutanix Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

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Comparison Review

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

University

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	92
Midsize Enterprise	94
Large Enterprise	202

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

In terms of pricing, I'll not say HPE Zerto Software is very cheap, and I'll not say that whatever features it provides, it's very highly priced. However, there could be room for negotiation on the...

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

The documentation is very good. The GUI is kind of an old one. More development on the GUI can be useful for the users.The areas that have room for improvement include the GUI. The other thing is t...

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

We are already working with Veeam but we don't have the product under subscription. We have a perpetual license. We are using it for virtual machine backup. We have an on-premise HCI setup and we a...

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What advice do you have for others considering Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

Both solutions have their merits. If we have to take a replication backup on the DR cluster, then Nutanix Disaster Recovery product is better. However, when we are planning outside of the cluster b...

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Overview

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

Nutanix Disaster Recovery offers reliable, scalable solutions that simplify management and enhance security. With seamless failover and efficient storage, it outperforms competitors like VMware. Its unified interface reduces downtime and facilitates effective multi-cluster management.

Nutanix Disaster Recovery stands out for its robust features, including automated network switching, local storage efficiency, and enhanced security. The platform excels with Prism Central's orchestration capabilities that support multi-cluster management. Deduplication and redundancy safeguard data, while integration with physical and virtual environments ensures efficient replication and backup operations. Areas for improvement include better bandwidth utilization, advanced automation, and clearer configurations. Cost concerns and declining support quality also warrant attention, especially with newer functionality changes affecting stability.

What are the key features of Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

Reliability and Scalability: Ensures system resilience and adapts to growing needs.
Seamless Failover: Provides uninterrupted operations during outages.
Automated Network Switching: Streamlines network adjustments for efficiency.
Local Storage Efficiency: Optimizes space with deduplication techniques.
Prism Central Orchestration: Facilitates easy management of multiple clusters.

What benefits should be considered in reviews for Nutanix Disaster Recovery?

Enhanced Performance: Minimizes downtime and boosts productivity during disruptions.
Data Security: Provides robust protection with redundancy and recovery protocols.
Efficient Management: Simplifies site management with a unified interface.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces storage costs through deduplication and optimized resources.

In industries with critical infrastructure, Nutanix Disaster Recovery supports replication and backup needs. Organizations use it for hot and cold data centers, ensuring data compliance and infrastructure resilience. Applications include physical to virtual integration and orchestrated backup through scheduled asynchronous replication, enhancing overall reliability in sectors like healthcare and finance.

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Sample Customers

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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