Zerto Reviews

Near-zero RPO, granular selection of individual VMs and the very simple setup and management.

Reduced DR strategy documentation and procedures.

Physical servers would be a nice enhancement. I would also like to see the backup portion really enhanced further.

3 Years +

Deployment is so easy, so no.

No

No

Excellent

Excellent

Yes. The product(s) I was using for replication were not as efficient and could not provide nearly as low of an RPO as Zerto.

Easy

Veeam replication, SRM and array-based.

I work for a data center solutions company and DR was always the toughest challenge. I have recommended numerous solutions to my customers over the years but when we stumbled upon Zerto 4 years ago it has become our standard recommendation in these projects. It's easy to setup and manage but best of all...it just works as expected.

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.

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.

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.

ZVR is very simple to setup and administer. Out of the box it just works and allows me to set my replication source and destinations and nearly forget it. Our RPOs are generally 5 seconds on a replicated base of 4Tb so we have only a very small data loss in the event of needing to recover.

Now that v4.5 has been released, I have the ability to recover individual files in the event of accidental deletion or even encryption by Ransomware. This ensures that data is easily recovered no matter when it is deleted, ensuring that files that have been created and deleted in the same day and prior to backup are recoverable easily.

And, perhaps more importantly, out of the box ZVR allows me to test the failover whenever I want to verify that my systems can come up as expected.

I have been a user of Zerto Virtual Replication for 1 year.

Technical Support at ZVR is very good. Any calls are promptly responded to and dealt with to resolution. The support personnel are very knowledgeable on the product.

Initial setup is very straight forward. You simply create a group and populate your machines into the group, select a destination and voila ZVR does the rest.

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.

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.