We performed a comparison between Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."I personally find Veritas NetBackup Applicance hassle-free."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"We have good data backup coverage."
"The tool is easy to use, stable, and performs well, but it depends on the environment where it is deployed. It is leaning more toward huge enterprises where it is positioned. It needs to be as easy as others but addresses more complex requirements."
"NetBackup is based on really good architectural hardware, and Veritas has the best backup and replication technology in the world."
"The standout feature is its connectivity and robust support. They are easily easy to get hold of, making it convenient for us."
"I have no stability issues to report...The initial setup is quite simple."
"The most valuable features are the continuous streaming, that it takes very little CPU usage — it doesn't affect production — and the recovery time is very short."
"Zerto is extremely easy to use. You set it and forget it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is accelerating cloud adoption, as it helps provide greater speed for disaster recovery. Ultimately, this saves us time, as well as resources."
"The mobile application is very useful as a real-time monitoring, reporting tool. When asked the status of our machine backup and recovery ability, an easy answer is to display the status on the real-time application or browser. The Zerto Analytics tool helps predict future storage needs by tracking trends in space, journal size, and I/O rate. These are reportable statistics making quantifiable tracking easy and accurate. Having a web interface simplifies access by other system administrators."
"We work a lot with customers that need disaster recovery and the best possible migration approaches, and Zerto helps them minimize the amount of effort it takes to finish their upgrades or migrations."
"The ease of setting up replication, the speed, and the ease with which I can fail over and fail back are all excellent aspects of the solution."
"It does what it's purported to do, which is to provide continuous data protection. We have a five-second RPO. It's definitely doing its job."
"The product must improve its recovery features."
"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."
"The monitoring could be a bit better."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."
"It could be better integrated with other platforms."
"Veritas NetBackup would benefit from better explained error codes."
"We had some problems with the backup of the physical server."
"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."
"We wanted to shut down the dev environment to focus on the prod environment. We couldn't find any option in Zerto to do that."
"It would be great if Zerto could automate replication more."
"The VPG model causes us a bit of concern. We are considering using Zerto to replace Site Recovery Manager. Site Recovery Manager is very easy when we have entire data scores being replicated. We don't have to make any decisions when it comes to groupings. It is all covered. If we move to Zerto, which we are considering, we will have to work much closer with the applications teams to develop the VPG configuration and determine how the VMs will be grouped. It will be a lot more overhead for us to go that route."
"Zerto's effect on our RPO can be improved."
"We're an NSX-T shop, and if I could get an NSX-T integration where it could manage the networks a little tighter, that would be an improvement."
"One thing I would like to see, and I know that this is on their roadmap, is the ability to use long-term storage in the cloud, like in Azure or AWS, making that even more seamless. Whether it's stored in glacier or on-prem, being able to retrieve that data in a quick manner would be helpful. They're just not there yet."
"I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit."
Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 235 reviews. Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Veritas NetBackup Appliance vs. Zerto report.
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