HPE Zerto Software vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while NetApp is ranked #24. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 4.7% mindshare in CM, compared to NetApp’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud compete in data management and recovery solutions. NetApp is favored for its integration with Google Cloud, enhancing cloud operations.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers comprehensive disaster recovery, robust data protection, and efficient recovery processes. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud provides scalable storage options, seamless integration with Google Cloud, and enhanced collaboration and flexibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software ensures straightforward deployment with effective customer service for quick issue resolution. NetApp benefits from Google Cloud's extensive support and resources, facilitating easier deployment and management.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software typically has higher upfront costs but delivers significant ROI with its disaster recovery strength. NetApp has competitive pricing with potential cost savings through its cloud-native design.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Migration

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

351

Ranking in other categories

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

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Cloud Migration

24th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Storage (18th), Public Cloud Storage Services (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 4.7%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	4.7%
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud	2.0%
Other	93.3%

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reviewer2802231

Cloud/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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Colin Constable

Co-Founder at Atsign

Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time

NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.

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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

"Continuous protection is Zerto's most valuable aspect."

"This software allows for almost fully automatic recovery, which means that the teams are required only for the verification phase, not during the entire recovery process."

"Zerto has given us a sense of security; to know that we can move our production data to our DR site in minutes lets me sleep much better at night."

"In terms of continuous data protection, it's the best product that we've found that does this. It's not snapshot-based. It's continuous, so there are no specific points in time we have to worry about recovering to or from. It's pretty much any time, as long as it's within our replication window."

"My organization has experienced the benefits of using the tool, which include the ability to test our disaster recovery quickly."

"I like that Zerto is easy to move and that there is no effect on the user; we are in the healthcare industry and can set up a server in no time whatsoever, making it easy for us to schedule because it takes only about one minute."

"HPE Zerto Software helped to reduce downtime in our corporate IT environment, and it was a very smooth dry run."

"The single pane of glass in Zerto Virtual Replication and ease of use is what makes Zerto different from other replication products that I have used in the past."

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"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero."

"It is a good service for high availability that is very easy to configure."

"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."

"Overall, they have very impressive technologies."

"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."

"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."

Cons

"It would be advantageous if Zerto had plugins for Infoblox, Cisco, or load balancers, as this would enable us to better manage those records."

"The interface is the only thing that we've ever really had an issue with. It's gone through some revisions; the UI is not clunky, but it's not as streamlined as it could be, and some of the workflow things are not as nice as they could be."

"It was a little bit expensive."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was really expensive."

"This solution could be improved if it met all the requirements that we look for including supporting multiple operating systems. We would prefer to use one solution for DR and backup."

"The backup solution needs to be improved."

"From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a demo to show someone how well it works."

"Backup dedup and online restore, support for SMTP authentication."

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"The user interface has room for improvement."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."

"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those."

"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features."

"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing is VM based so you can buy packages or single VM. Price is not low but the power of application is high, so you will get your money back."

"It's fair. My biggest gripe with Zerto is the initial scoping. What we were promised didn't work with what we ended up with."

"It is an enterprise-grade product. When you buy enterprise-grade tools, you have to expect to pay a higher price. It goes back to the idea of you get what you pay for."

"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 pricing is good. It's affordable."

"I wouldn't say I like the licensing pricing structure. Every year, it increases exponentially, which bothers me a little. It's worth it in terms of the value, but I worry the price will increase even more often after the Zerto merger. I still think it's worth it and that the solution is cheaper than the others."

"I am not very involved with the pricing, but from my understanding, it is fairly expensive for us. This is why we limit its use to our tier-one customers. We have other disaster recovery solutions for our other customers due to the cost."

"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."

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"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	91
Midsize Enterprise	94
Large Enterprise	201

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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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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

CVS for Google Cloud, NetApp CVS for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP

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

NetApp^® Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.

Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.

For more information:

NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp

Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp

NetApp

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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