We performed a comparison between Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Commvault, Zerto and others in Cloud Backup."Cloud Connect's best features are its simplicity, flexibility, and constantly-expanding options."
"I like the fact that it gives you the possibility to set the data out of the customer on-premises site and to have an off-site copy in your Cloud Data Center."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Cloud Connect is the server backups, such as the Microsoft Windows server. Additionally, the updates provide useful enterprise functionality."
"The most valuable features are the fast replication and recovery of data."
"It's a stable solution."
"The deployment is quite simple. Users are generally happy because of the familiarity they have with the features. The solution offers good transparency for the end-user."
"The stability and restore options on the solution are very good."
"In my opinion, the console or dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Journaling is by far the most valuable feature. We have used it several times for customers who have gotten ransomware and had to do a rollback. Having the right time period was important. Some of them had their backups encrypted. So, they didn't encrypt the Zerto machine seven days previously, and we were able to bring that back up."
"We are in the process of switching over our production data center and Zerto has been a true time-saver that has cost us zero downtime."
"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."
"It enables protection of a virtual workload to be done by the app, whether single or multi-tiered, with a boot time scheduler. It is pretty awesome."
"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."
"Some of the most valuable features are the synchronous replication and migration with RDMs. I really like the conversion of RDM VMs for migration."
"We can failover to an isolated environment and validate the application without impacting the production environment. We can do more testing in a non-impactful way..."
"In terms of the most valuable features, having the failover tests where you can see where your actual RTO and RPO would be is really nice, especially for the management level. I really liked the ease of when I need to do a file or folder restore off the cuff. Usually, it takes me less than five minutes to do it, including the mounting of the actual image. That was one thing with Unitrends, it was a similar process but if that backup had aged off of the system, then you had to go to the archive and you find the right disks, load them in, and then actually mount the image."
"The solution should allow for interfacing with other public cloud vendors. They could work to build something around that concept."
"The biggest thing that Cloud Connect needs is native deduplication."
"The security of encrypted data could be better."
"We are now able to work on more security-related tasks with Acronis, as they offer features such as antivirus, DLP, and various cybersecurity options. This is a significant improvement compared to our previous solution with Veeam Cloud Connect, where we were lacking such features. It also allows us to offer a wider range of security options to our customers."
"The flexibility results in more administrative GUI. The GUI needs improvement."
"Doesn't back-up from KVM."
"We encountered some issues with stability at the beginning."
"I think Veeam Cloud Connect could be more stable, scalable, and secure. I think better pricing is needed."
"I had a couple of questions after deployment, but nothing major, about a couple of ways I could tweak it."
"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."
"In future releases, doing backups of the environment we need to be able to do hot backups of the database."
"I wish they would...develop their PowerShell module to be more robust. So instead of having to rely on the API to actually include a PowerShell command, it would let you create VPGs, delete VPGs, modify VPGs, etc. This would ease the automation effort of deployment and decommissioning and I'd really appreciate that."
"The only thing we've noticed that needs improvement is the backend cleanup within VMware. There are some little issues there. I would like to see tighter integration with Vmware... orphan data is an issue within VMware. It doesn't clean up properly when you're moving stuff around."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"The backup solution needs to be improved. From our perspective, Veeam and Zerto were competing products. They both do very unique things that they're very good at. For instance, Veeam can do replication well. However, it's really a backup product."
"It would also be nice if you could update without having to download a new installation file for Zerto Virtual Manager. Within the app, it could prompt you to install and perform the installation from within the application. Generally, it's relatively easy to use, but it gets a little complex when customers have special network requirements and need to customize how long they want the save points to be retained. We need to work with the storage team on the backend to see what makes the most sense for the client."
Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Backup with 6 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 127 reviews. Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] is rated 8.4, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] writes "User-friendly interface, and reasonably priced but the support needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Our average recovery time is now in seconds, and we can spin up a test version without affecting our production environment". Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Vinchin Backup & Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud.
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