We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."
"Zerto is essential for protecting critical workloads. We don't protect all of our VMs, but some need to be recovered in a timely manner. The recovery time is almost immediate."
"The communication between the VM and the secondary data center is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Using Zerto, you can have your VM up and running in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is flip a switch, then you are good to go."
"The most valuable feature is Zerto's ability to precopy data to a remote destination prior to the actual live migration period. That saves us a lot of time and has been very helpful. For example, if we had migrations occurring in waves over a period of several weeks with a VPG or VPG setup of approximately 50 VMs, that is multiple gigabytes of data, even terabytes in many cases. Having that data already copied on the evening of the migration saves considerable hours of time. It easily saves us four to six hours a night."
"It is convenient to use because the API allows for seamless integration when performing our day-to-day operations."
"I like that the failover is simple and that it's a stable platform. It makes it easy for us to do failovers in the event that we have an issue. It also makes it easier to do test failovers because we can test it prior to actually doing a real failover. This means that we can pull things back or commit them over on the other side. Zerto streamlines the process instead of having to have a whole team of people who are dedicated to disaster recovery."
"We have seen ROI. The biggest way that we have seen it is in avoided downtime. We have had outages before, and we count downtime in terms of dollars spent. We have cut that down so dramatically, which provides us a very quick ROI. We have drastically reduced the amount of time it takes us to recover workloads, from an average of two hours to an average of 10 minutes."
"Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue."
"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."
"When we are trying to upgrade any virtual machines, we have to stop the virtual machines that have been replicated in Zerto and then upgrade or update to the virtual machines onsite. Instead of having to do it manually, there should be some way of automating that particular function."
"It needs more documentation and automation features. I would like more documentation on designing an environment and network operations. On the automation side, I would like automation to clean up the environment in cases of a failed DR effort. An API interface to perform the DR exercise would also be nice."
"Not all of the knowledge required for implementing Zerto is available in their online documentation for non-partners."
"Adding or changing VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) may require restarting replication."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"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."
"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."
"It needs to support more public cloud."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 234 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and NAKIVO Backup & Replication, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Zerto report.
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