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PROS

HPE Zerto Software significantly reduces recovery time and data loss, enabling near-to-zero data loss without restoring backups, which is crucial in scenarios like ransomware attacks.
Journaling facilitates sub-minute recoveries, allowing users to leverage Zerto's journal for quick recoveries without waiting for storage array replication.
The one-to-many replication options simplify replication processes and reduce concerns about driver versions, compared to previous VMware solutions.
Its integration capabilities allow seamless replication and disaster recovery procedures, providing flexibility for server migrations and data center consolidations.
Near-synchronous replication provides rapid RTO and RPO, allowing critical systems and data to recover swiftly.

CONS

Zerto experiences issues with replication appliances when recovering from power-off, which requires manual tasks for recovery.
Zerto has room for improvement in reducing its cost.
The cost per virtual machine for Zerto remains high, even with price adjustments.
Zerto should improve integration with public cloud platforms and extend its support to Hypervisors.
Zerto's technical support is reported as inconsistent and sometimes inexperienced post-acquisition by HPE.
 

HPE Zerto Software Pros review quotes

it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 4, 2017
Managing the system is easy and reliable, you can choose any VM you want to replicate to your DR Site in Combination with other VM's.
it_user704025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 17, 2017
Failing over the VM without removing/touching the production VM from inventory is also an important feature.
RB
Infrastructure Expert at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 27, 2017
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.
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it_user710619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader in Advanced Services department at a tech services company
Jul 27, 2017
Consistency Groups: If you replicate groups of VMs, then during failover, all of the VMs in groups are failed over to the exact same point in time.
it_user774891 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm
Dec 5, 2017
The ability to test which virtual machines can be failed over to our DR site without interruption of our production environment.
it_user620190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 18, 2017
VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth.
it_user486204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Owner with 1-10 employees
Dec 18, 2017
The replication being log-based is awesome.
it_user373668 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager, Cloud Recovery at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Failover using Zerto is simply a one-button click, and it does everything else in restoring the VMs at a different datacenter (recovery site).
BM
Network Services Manager at M. J. Electric, LLC
Jan 11, 2018
During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers.
JS
Adjunct Professor at Southern New Hampshire University
Jul 10, 2018
Journaling allows us to leverage Zerto's journal for sub-minute recoveries, instead of having to wait for the storage array to replicate.
 

HPE Zerto Software Cons review quotes

it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dec 4, 2017
Migration of complex VMware and Hyper-V solution. Using Zerto to replicate to azure and S3.
it_user704025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 17, 2017
There is a need to allow the source vCenter Inventory to be imported with a single click.
RB
Infrastructure Expert at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 27, 2017
Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site.
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it_user710619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader in Advanced Services department at a tech services company
Jul 27, 2017
I would like to see a couple of details regarding awareness of VM events coming outside of ZVR.
it_user774891 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm
Dec 5, 2017
The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse.
it_user620190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 18, 2017
It needs to support more public cloud.
it_user486204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Owner with 1-10 employees
Dec 18, 2017
An integrated encryption would allow for faster initial install and connection to the remote cloud site.
it_user373668 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager, Cloud Recovery at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Adding or changing VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) may require restarting replication.
BM
Network Services Manager at M. J. Electric, LLC
Jan 11, 2018
I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit.
JS
Adjunct Professor at Southern New Hampshire University
Jul 10, 2018
The full site recovery is not up to SRM standards.