We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec 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."The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"Zerto ensures a smooth transition during a disaster when we need to automatically switch from our primary environment to our recovery one."
"From a management perspective, one of the biggest benefits is to see the excitement of your engineers having a tool that truly enables them, really making their lives easier. That is something that I love. When we came out of the PoC, their eyes were just wide with excitement of what was possible now."
"Failover using Zerto is simply a one-button click, and it does everything else in restoring the VMs at a different datacenter (recovery site)."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"It gives us a seamless, performant data center migration. When we were migrating between physical data centers, we did what normally would have been a 72-hour job in about 18 hours. A large part of that was thanks to Zerto being able to rate limit and throttle how much data was being sent or transfers were happening. Being able to script around it and create governors was important. We didn't have that previously. That is one big use case that has saved an immense amount of time and effort."
"Failing over the VM without removing/touching the production VM from inventory is also an important feature."
"When we use our VMware environment, sometimes the HP hardware is not compatible, and we start to lose data. I like that we can restore our whole application and public-facing system through Zerto."
"Zerto is so easy to use that when I showed it to my manager, he said jokingly, 'Huh. I could use it myself, I don't need you.' Zerto is most elegant."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"We would love to have a native management pack for vROps and to be able to view a dashboard and metrics for BPGs within vROps. We would like to have a single view for monitoring and provide customers with dashboards so they can see their own BPGs."
"They could improve their online documentation."
"The licensing is confusing and complicated."
"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."
"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."
"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."
"There's a mandatory VMware version, so we need to update our VMs in order to access our data. Zerto should work with all VMware versions."
"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Zerto report.
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