Zerto Reviews

Simple, fast install

Easy upgrades

Grouping virtual machines by application, not LUN

Automatic IP address change

Simplified the way annual DR tests are performed as well as being a tool for migrating workloads between data centers as needed.

Would like to see additional reports after recovery operations with details on recovery of each VM

2 years

Sales and customer service are responsive to questions.

Technical Support is very helpful. They reply to phone or email quickly.

Used VMware SRM previously

Straightforward, simple deployment

We use this solution for disaster recovery.

Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs. These are nice to have tools.

The most valuable feature is the Restore file, where you can go back in time on a file-level. This is very helpful.

The backup functions are in need of improvement.

Being able to provide customers with DR options that work.

We are a Cloud Services provider that owns and operates data centers coast-to-coast.

Couple of years

no

no

Only slightly when using it to protect 37 SQL servers. The high IOPS have been dealt with and we have solved that issue.

excellent

excellent

We used many other solutions, but this is the one we reached for first.

Yes - super simple.

When you can't afford to risk your data, Zerto is the solution.

Improved the DR RPO and BCP.

VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth.

It needs to support more public cloud, especially in China.

No stability issues so far.

No scalability issues so far.

Excellent.

No previous solution.

Very simple.

It's a little bit expensive.

Tested several other products such as NAKIVO, Veeam, VM Replication. Zerto proved to have better replication efficiency over WAN bandwidth.

It works only for a virtual platform, it does not support bare metal. If you're looking for a comprehensive solution for both virtual and physical platforms, then Veeam is a preferable solution.

Replication of business critical VMware VMs over WAN to the remote disaster recovery datacenter.

The benefits are obvious: The simplicity of the setup and the speed of replication.

The speed of WAN replication is great. It is faster compared to RecoverPoint and 20 VMs replicating over a 20Mbps VPN, which has a RPO less than one minute. Of course, your mileage will vary.

Compared to the previous DR replication solution, Zerto has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly.

In Zerto for vSphere, it is a pain to remove the virtual appliance if for some reason you lose the host.

Make sure to understand how Zerto supports Microsoft/SQL Clusters - more of an advice to the companies thinking of implementing Zerto.

Replication for disaster recovery between data centers is valuable.

Zerto allows us to replicate entire systems between data centers instead of setting up replication within the applications, which sometimes is non-existent.

The backup capabilities require too much disk space and I would like to see better compression. or deduplication built in to reduce the amount of WAN traffic. It would also be nice to have it be able to monitor a VM to let you know how much bandwidth a particular VM would require to replicate.

I've been using it for nine months.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no performance issues.

Scalability is all about bandwidth, so the only issue we had was trying to guess how much bandwidth we would need.

Technical support is good.

We used point solutions for our disaster recovery needs and we were very selective about the applications we would setup with disaster recovery due to costs.

The Zerto setup is very easy. The difficult task is setting up any processes that need to be run after a failover.

This was all setup in house.

We primarily use Zerto Virtual Replication to protect groups of servers in our production data center, replicating them to a secondary site. We also protect essential test and dev servers.

I have also used it in a past role to carry out a datacenter migration project. 

The single pane of glass in Zerto Virtual Replication and ease of use is what makes Zerto different from other replication products that I have used in the past. You can clearly see if something is not quite right in your disaster recovery plan before you have an actual disaster.

Zerto has made Disaster Recover and Business Continuity Planning tests much easier and quicker. Even when doing 'Live' tests, we are able to confirm beforehand that everything looks OK. This means less time troubleshooting on the day of the test.

The product is improving all the time and I think the Zerto team have quite a good handle on things. I found the Local ZertoCON meetup/conference particularly useful to hear about different user cases. However, sometimes it feels like the QA is not great, as the previous two updates have been bug fixes.

• Interoperability between Hyper-V, ESX, vCloud, and AWS.
• Very easy to use
• Reliable
• Fast
• Also the architecture (on the ISP side) is designed with isolation and multi-tenancy in mind, so it's safely deployable on an ISP environment.

It allows smooth migrations which would be a lot more difficult with other technologies.

• A "manual mode" which would allow the user to failover the VMs but keeping them powered off at destination

• More powerful scripting engine

• Ability to move protected VMs between VPGs
• More reliable ETA on VPG syncronization
• root-level user for VRA installation ( at the moment the user "root" is hardcoded )
• Bandwidth throttling schedule should include days of week

I've used it for four months.

Not at all.

There were no issues.

There were no issues.

Great pre-sales experience, and good support.

8/10.

It was pretty straightforward.

I love the application, and it has become essential in my work.