HPE Zerto Software vs Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] comparison

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HPE Zerto Software

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86% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

365

Ranking in other categories

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

Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

Aslah Faseel K

DevOps 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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David Villota

EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

Reliable and issue-free with a helpful onboarding wizard

The solution has been installed on Linux machines. The solution is issue-free. We are happy with it. The solution has been stable and reliable. It is scalable. My understanding the setup is pretty straightforward and that the onboarding wizard is pretty easy to follow. I've never had to…

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

Pros

"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."

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

"Zerto stands out for its user-friendly approach to data protection and recovery, allowing for quick and efficient backups and restores."

"What I like most about Zerto is that it makes my job much easier."

"The quickness and efficiency of creating snapshots, on a real-time basis, is one of the most valuable features. Whenever changes are made on a server, Zerto starts taking snapshots right away and replicating them to the DR site. It's very effective and very quick."

"For most use cases, the failover time is a handful of minutes, if that. A single user can run the system."

"The real-time capability is what we're looking for."

"The most important features are the simplicity of recovery and the wider capabilities and feature sets than VMware SRM has."

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"The Veeam Backup and Replication Suite is very user-friendly."

"The flexibility and user-friendliness of Veeam make it very IT operations-friendly."

"It's most compatible with VMware. It can restore single files instead of having to restore the whole machine, once again leading to savings for the company."

"Veeam Agent for Linux's most valuable feature is the compatibility with virtual machines, such as VMware."

"I haven't explored all of what this solution has to offer as I have only been using it for four months, but so far it's good and I would recommend it."

"We've found the product to be very useful and has very good capabilities."

"I like the backup features of this solution and the integration is very useful."

"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complicated. It takes around half an hour to implement, but it depends on the performance of the server that you are installing the backup software on."

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Cons

"Another thing that would help would be a recommender, or some type of tool that says, 'Hey, you're not conforming to best practices.' It would do a conformance or compliance check to tell you if your VPGs are set up according to best practices and whether your Zerto clusters are set up optimally. It would see if you have HA enabled and whether your alerting is turned on."

"Long-term retention of files is a function that isn't available yet that I'm looking forward to them providing. The long-term retention is the only other thing that I think needs improvement."

"HPE Zerto Software didn't help to reduce my organization's DR testing; I was shocked by it since whenever I actually performed the DR test, it took my environments down."

"Certain areas were designed and work fine for VMware but are under development for Hyper-V. Eventually, all features will work for both platforms."

"Zerto's documentation is outdated. I'm finding it hard to find documents related to my questions. Their documentation is bad."

"I would like to see some graphical improvements in Zerto's interface. There's an option to export a list of all of our servers, but the information isn't presented the way we want. We want it in a specified sequence broken down by region, etc. We can't manipulate the data when we export it. Maybe they could change it to look more like an Excel sheet, and we can customize the graphics and data. We suggested these improvements to Zerto through their portal."

"The only negative I would give is that with the latest version of the appliance, setting up authentication was a bit of a challenge, but that is just a matter of using Keycloak and how things have changed."

"The RPO for our SQL server has room for improvement."

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"The price of Veeam Agent for Linux could be reduced."

"It could use deduplication features."

"It would be much better if more applications were supported on the Linux side."

"Scalability, if you are talking about Linux, is good. However, if you need to backup more types of solutions or Unix systems, like HP/UX, AIX, etc., it's not compatible."

"It's scalable, but it's not scalable on every platform."

"I would like to be able to install Veeam directly to Linux instead of having to go through a Windows server."

"There are some roadblocks with the licensing. Right now we are dealing with an issue because we cannot merge licenses."

"At the moment, this solution is not good enough."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I have heard that it is expensive, but that is not my world."

"As far as I know, the pricing is around $1,000 per VM, but Zerto is changing the pricing model to more of an enterprise-class license. I don't know if there are any additional costs or fees."

"Zerto is definitely more costly compared to its competitors, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. It may not be suitable for small and medium-sized industries."

"All of my customers are happy with how this product works and they like it, but unfortunately, in the market that I represent, Zerto is expensive when compared with the competition."

"One of Zerto's main disadvantages is its pricing structure, which involves significant upfront costs and limited options for startups with minimal initial funding."

"The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."

"We feel it is pretty cost-efficient. For the amount of protection that we get for Zerto, we feel that it is at an excellent price point, especially compared to some of the other vendors that were just backup solutions. For all that it does, we feel that the price is good."

"It is very expensive. It is overpriced. No doubt. What held us up for many years from committing to buying it was always the cost. That's also why we only have 10 licenses."

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"It's a subscription based license, which is started on a yearly basis. Currently the licensing is split between three editions: standard, enterprise, and enterprise plus. As long as you check the comparison between the additions and make sure that you have what you need, there are no extra costs with Veeam."

"The costing is very competitive."

"Price-wise it's good."

"Licensing costs are $300,000 USD yearly, and we pay for three years at a time."

"There's the principal license for Veeam Agent for Linux, and then you need to buy additional licenses for your machines."

"Licensing costs are monthly."

"Veeam Agent is one of the cheapest products in the market."

"The solution is rather expensive and I think the price is too high."

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it_user159711

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

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

16%

Construction Company

16%

Photography Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	97
Midsize Enterprise	94
Large Enterprise	210

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

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?

I find HPE Zerto Software affordable.

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

I would like HPE Zerto Software to support more hypervisor platforms than currently available. Support for additional hypervisors could be added in the future. Since we have multiple platforms, we ...

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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

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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

Veeam Agent for Linux is a simple backup agent that’s designed to ensure the Availability of your Linux installations, both on‑premises and in the public cloud. Veeam Agent for Linux’s built‑in integration with Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to leverage your Veeam backup repositories and get your on‑premises backups off site.

https://www.veeam.com/linux-cloud-server-backup-agent.html

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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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