We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector 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 have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"What I like the most about this solution is that I can change and access the Oracle backup file."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Zerto is scalable."
"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."
"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."
"The main purpose of this tool is to allow failover between different data centers and different locations. When one site is unavailable, we can start the failover activity and perform the failover task. When a primary location is unavailable, or there is some hardware or logical issue at the primary location, it allows us to resolve the problem. We are able to start services at safe locations. We handle the disaster recovery process, and this is the main function for which we are using it all the time."
"We have seen ROI. The biggest way that we have seen it is in avoided downtime. We have had outages before, and we count downtime in terms of dollars spent. We have cut that down so dramatically, which provides us a very quick ROI. We have drastically reduced the amount of time it takes us to recover workloads, from an average of two hours to an average of 10 minutes."
"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."
"The ease of use and simplicity in moving things without having to do a cross-v set of V-motions has been most valuable. It saves time and effort and it eliminates mistakes."
"Moving the VPGs from one location to another is a valuable feature. You just click on it and move it and it's done."
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"Integration with the market applications must be improved, such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP and Oracle. Other backup tools are more efficient with the integrated backups."
"Micro Focus Data Protector must improve its overall evolution record. They need to focus on hardware based instant recovery, client recovery, and cloud ability. Now there is no cloud ability."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
"They had a bug recently that has come up and caused some issues. They currently have a bug in their production versions that prevents their product from functioning in some scenarios, and we have hit a few of those scenarios."
"I'm not sure if it has throttling, meaning, what's going over the wire and how we can throttle that to reduce the amount of data that's going across the bandwidth. I can't remember if that's something that's in this product. It might be in the more recent version."
"Right now, if you have an error, it creates a link that takes you to a website to review information about the problem. It would be nice if Zerto could give you information within the app instead of referring you to a web application."
"This solution could be improved by being more cloud agnostic."
"When we migrated to new virtual infrastructure, we had to set up Zerto all over again. And that took a long time. It would be nice if Zerto had some sort of migration tool where you could migrate all of your virtual machines to a new infrastructure without having to set up Zerto all over again."
"Zerto's price has room for improvement."
"We have had some issues with trying to get certain parts of the backup or restore functionality to work."
"Now, everything is moving to the cloud and many modern app solutions are based on virtualization and cloud, however, for situations where Unix platforms are used, we'd like them to be able to support that."
OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, HPE StoreOnce and Rubrik, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Zerto report.
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