HPE Zerto Software vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

"The feature I appreciate the most about HPE Zerto Software is its fantastic replication and advanced problem-solving capabilities."

"HPE Zerto Software has saved me time in data recovery situations due to something like ransomware because we have protection against it."

"We have had many instances where VMs were corrupted by an application owner, where they were installing something and did not create a snapshot in VMware for it. Instead of tapping into our backups, with just two clicks, we were able to restore the VM back to its original state. It helps a lot in the day-to-day running of our business."

"The second feature that sold us was the sub-second RPO. One of the things that made Zerto's product stand out from some of the more traditional solutions four years ago was its ability to maintain sub-second RPO over a group of machines, and that group of machines could be spread over multiple storage hardware."

"Zerto provides disaster recovery solutions, data protection, and ensures minimal disruption during migration."

"HPE Zerto Software has impacted our RTOs and RPOs positively by providing near-real-time replication and instant recovery, which has definitely reduced our RPOs and RTOs."

"The ease of use is one of the most valuable features when it comes to making changes and configuring. It's very easy to set up and configure. It's a great product."

"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."

"While there are some complexities, Veeam tries to keep the product simple and offers a good knowledge base. It's quite structured, so you can easily take one subject and learn about it simply by reading through the documentation."

"The solution is already far more advanced than our customers require. It offers advanced scripting and automation pre-testing to support the custom library and custom tasks."

"Replication without network changes."

"A really good feature is backing up the emails of the company."

"This solution works really well and it is simple to deploy."

"The best part about this solution is that it just works."

"The most valuable feature is the snapshot capability."

"the interface is the most valuable feature and for the client it's security."

"Zerto needs to improve its support for VMware Lifecycle Manager."

"To improve HPE Zerto Software, it would be helpful to make it more affordable."

"I am a little bit worried about how Zerto will work with large volumes of data, such as replication for big data and very large files."

"I would like Zerto to enhance the continuous backup aspect."

"The time between releases is too long. Zerto doesn't seem to really keep up with the products with which they need to be compatible. For instance, the 9.5 updates 3 took about 90 days to come out after the latest version of vCenter 7.0 update 3 was released."

"It took me a little bit of time to get used to Zerto's terminology and to relate it back to how you do a backup traditionally. It was a little different. It took a little while to understand what a VPG is and what it does. That's an area that they could probably improve on a little, making the documentation easier to understand."

"An improvement I would like to see in HPE Zerto Software is the ability to start protecting bare-metal configurations, as today it only handles virtualized workloads."

"Zerto's analytics could be more detailed. The analytics report seems to be more difficult to read."

"I would like to see more advanced training courses made available to cover complicated use cases."

"The solution should allow for interfacing with other public cloud vendors. They could work to build something around that concept."

"We were interested in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in VMware. VMware right now is one of the biggest solutions in the world, in terms of the IT environment. But for Cloud Connect it's not. I think they need the cloud version to reach more customers, to enable the cloud version to be used by more people."

"If a customer has a low budget, Veeam may be too expensive."

"Doesn't back-up from KVM."

"The bandwidth optimization needs to be improved and have better efficiency so that you send fewer amounts of data from one site to the other."

"I think Veeam Cloud Connect could be more stable, scalable, and secure. I think better pricing is needed."

"The pricing is much higher than what our clients expect it to be."

"The cost per VM is a bit high."

"Zerto is more expensive than competitors, making the price difference pretty high. While it is very expensive, it's very powerful and good at what it does. The cost is why we are not leveraging it for everything in the organization. If it was dirt cheap, we would have LTR and DR on everything because it would just make sense to use it."

"My impression is that Zerto is more expensive than other solutions, although I don't have exact numbers."

"Having backup and DR is somewhat moderately important to us. The problem with us, and a lot of companies, is the issue with on-prem Zerto. It utilizes whatever you have for a SAN. Or, if you are like us, we have a vSAN and that storage is not cheap. So, it is cheaper to have a self-contained backup system that is on its own storage rather than utilizing your data center storage, like your vSAN. While it is somewhat important to have both backup and DR, it is not incredibly important to have both. I know Zero is trying to heavily dip their toes in the water of backup and recovery. Once you see what Zerto can do, I don't think anyone will not take Zerto because they don't necessarily specialize in backup and recovery 100 percent. They do replication so well."

"We have always been able to get the pricing worked out. At this new company I am right now, we are doing well. We sometimes go through a third party to help us with pricing, but Zerto is fairly decently priced, especially when you consider some of the other solutions that are out there which could be very expensive."

"Its pricing is very competitive. As compared to VMware SRM, Zerto has reduced our OPEX cost by at least 30%."

"The pricing is good. It's affordable."

"Zerto is affordable."

"The licensing is MSP-based. It is connected to the portal, and you can deploy it to your end users as well."

"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."

"It's not the cheapest solution on the market but it's reliable, so we find it cost-effective."

"The price of the solution could be cheaper. There are monthly or yearly subscription options available. The annual subscription tends to be cheaper."

"We are looking into how we can extend the license of this product."

"I think that this is one of the most cost-effective solutions."

"The price of the solution is reasonable because of our good standing with the vendor."

"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."