We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster Recovery and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."
"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."
"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."
"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."
"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."
"The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."
"I like the less than one-minute RPO, the ability to IP customize during failovers, and the cloning feature that I can use to clone VMs over at the target location. As part of the automation failover, if we need to change an IP when it fails over to the other data center, Zerto will handle that; there's no need for manual intervention. As far as the cloning, we use that to do quick testing of a VM in the remote data center for lift-and-shift processors."
"The most valuable for us and for my company is that we are replicating most of our production customers to the DR site, and we can do testing whenever we want."
"The quickness and efficiency of creating snapshots, on a real-time basis, is one of the most valuable features. Whenever changes are made on a server, Zerto starts taking snapshots right away and replicating them to the DR site. It's very effective and very quick."
"One of the most valuable features, something that I wasn't even anticipating, is the file backups. We weren't even considering Zerto to do restores, but it actually is able to do that. Eventually, we could just use this as our backup solution."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
"In terms of continuous data protection, it's the best product that we've found that does this. It's not snapshot-based. It's continuous, so there are no specific points in time we have to worry about recovering to or from. It's pretty much any time, as long as it's within our replication window."
"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."
"The replication feature where it constantly replicates and sees that data is always in sync is valuable."
"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."
"The product should improve compute points."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."
"The cost is acceptable."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."
"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."
"The replication layer can probably be improved."
"One thing I would like to see in their roadmap is introducing long-term storage in the cloud such as Azure or AWS. They can make it more seamless."
"The performance was generally good, but occasional lag disrupted the flow, leaving room for improvement."
"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."
"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."
"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."
"The alerting has room for improvement as it is the biggest pain point with the software. It is so bad. It is just general alerting on or off. There are so many emails all the time. You have no control over it, which is terrible. It is the worst part of the entire application. I have voiced this to Zerto hundreds of times for things like feature changes. Apparently, it's coming, but there is nothing concrete as to when you can do it."
Acronis Disaster Recovery is ranked 18th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 9 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 234 reviews. Acronis Disaster Recovery is rated 8.4, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Disaster Recovery writes "A great solution for running into data centers or full-location data centers for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Acronis Disaster Recovery is most compared with Arcserve UDP, Veeam Backup & Replication and Azure Site Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Zerto report.
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