HPE Zerto Software vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."

"Failing over the VM without removing/touching the production VM from inventory is also an important feature."

"What I like most about Zerto is that it just works at the end of the day."

"The most important feature is that the recovery point (RPO) is less than one minute. The is really good for our customers, as they can keep their data loss to a minimum."

"Zerto is 400 times better."

"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."

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

"I assess the stability and reliability of the HPE Zerto Software as very robust, with no real performance issues experienced; it just works and is easy to use."

"It has a very intuitive interface, it integrates more smoothly with our steps. With a different product from a different manufacturer, there are a lot more steps required to set up a volume, to make it available in VMware and to utilize it there."

"Reduxio provides a means of backing up the data that you store in it down to one second granularity."

"With only a few clicks, I can provision or modify storage."

"I have an every second undo button for all my applications. I call Reduxio "the ransomware killer"."

"The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that."

"Instant recovery through its continuous data protection."

"The machine installed without difficulty."

"Reduxio delivers a self-contained system with all of the features rolled in and functional."

"You can back up VMs but can't back up individual objects, like email objects, which could be improved."

"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."

"Their data backup and restore have some ways to go."

"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."

"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."

"Zerto could improve the product by lowering the cost."

"I would like for Zerto to improve reporting, provide more data on individual VMs and their performance, and maybe expand into backup with the ability to scan for malware or offline scanning."

"Zerto could improve by offering more flexible pricing models, especially for startups."

"The latest release limits web access to the admin console via Chrome only, and that's a bit of a hassle. Would definitely prefer something less restrictive there."

"The only thing that I would point out would be the basic administration management of the machine. Everything has rights, meaning that there's either all control or no delegated control. So to sum that up, it would be a feature request for delegated management in the administrative console."

"A centralized management would be nice, the ability to manage all cluster in one management portal."

"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."

"Scalability is a little unusual. We came from the NetApp world where, if you needed more disk space, you just added more drives into the chassis, whereas with Reduxio, if you need more disk space, you have to buy a new chassis."

"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."

"The ability to look at data at a file level would be useful, as well as the ability recover at that level. Right now, you can only recover whole volumes."

"I am waiting on a feature set in the new version which should allow me to replicate between Reduxio iSCSI SANs for disaster recovery and also to 3rd party iSCSI SANs which are cheaper for an archive or DR target."

"The pricing seems reasonable. It's still within what we consider to be value-add."

"Obviously, I wish it were cheaper and more affordable. But I get what I pay for, so I can't complain."

"We found that in an event that was massive enough to cause an entire cluster to go offline we would be happy with our core services up and running."

"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."

"It's a little bit expensive."

"Zerto is not overly expensive. It's worth what we're getting for it, but with tough times, a discount would be beneficial."

"There may be less expensive solutions on the market but with Zerto, you get what you pay for."

"I do not like the current pricing model because the product has been divided into different components and they are charging for them individually."

"Reduxio’s licensing model is quite attractive. All licenses are included in the product pricing."

"The licensing is very simple with Reduxio. It is actually one of the attractions, unlike some of the other products. The other product we're using, in some of its incarnations, has extremely complex pricing, with every spindle having an associated license and fees. With Reduxio it's very simple. For the box - the hardware comes in essentially one configuration for the chassis, the unit (and you can buy multiple units and daisy-chain them) - there is no "a-la-carte," so many drives of this kind or that kind, etc. It has a basic hardware configuration. Then, through the software license, they allocate or assign you the right to use the full capacity, or half of it, or a quarter of it. Of course, if you're not using the full capacity but need to, it is a simple phone call to upgrade. It's as simple as it gets."

"I think it is worth the value."

"They have very competitive pricing and were able to work within our budget constraints as a public school."

"​The advantage of using HDDs to store (versus pure flash) makes the price point attractive versus other options.​​"

"I think that you are able to buy a minimum capacity, then grow your capacity within the box as you expand your data needs."

"The pricing and licensing were favorable.​"

"I think the pricing is good value, because you're not just buying a storage array, you're buying a backup solution and a DR solution and a "time machine" solution, all bundled in one storage array. When we had NetApp storage we had to then go out and buy a copy of Veeam which is a backup solution. With the Reduxio, you still need to do backups but you don't need that software product."