We performed a comparison between Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was very easy. Deployment only took about one hour with configuration and everything considered."
"It is a stable solution."
"Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good."
"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."
"The interface of this solution is quite good."
"The installation of Veeam Agent is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and stability of the product."
"The replication piece with the built-in WAN compression is important because the network circuit that we send our replication traffic across isn't actually behind our normal WAN accelerators. We were able to use Zerto's built-in WAN acceleration to help those workloads compress."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"The one-to-many replication functionality is helpful. While we were protecting our VMs in Azure, we were able to use the one-to-many feature to also replicate the same VMs to our new data center, in preparation for data center migration."
"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."
"Another advantage is the ease of use. You can click through instead of typing in the code. It's all already scripted down to the network adjustments within the VMs and the timed delays for servers that need to come up in sequence. Overall, it's a good package for us to use. We started using it in about 2018 and haven't looked back."
"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."
"I like the granularity of the checkpoints."
"Zerto is extremely easy to use. You set it and forget it."
"An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing."
"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."
"There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature."
"A lower price would always be beneficial."
"The solution's compression ratio and high speed for backing up can always improve. Aspects that need improvement are less time, better quality, higher security, and more compression. These are continuous requirements for any customer."
"There should be an option to use the solution for physical machines."
"I would like to have a more automated installation process."
"There really are no cons. The product simply has to maintain development to keep up with changes in the operating system."
"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."
"If they already do not have it, they can have some APIs for the Horizon environment. Instead of having to use some scripts to get around, they can make it a lot more user-friendly for integration."
"They just came out with improvements for ransomware protection last week. I haven't used them yet but, overall, security and preventing ransomware is really a hot topic these days. I would like to see it detect when the ransomware occurs and provide more information on it."
"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."
"I need to get up to the latest version so I can move my journals to a particular LUN, saving them with a particular storage altogether, rather than with the virtual machine. This is not available until I upgrade, and I need to upgrade all my hypervisors. This would be something that would be nice to have if it could be used on older versions."
"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"I don't have any input for improvement or a critical feature request at this moment. If anything, a lower price is always better."
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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 235 reviews. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is rated 8.4, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] writes "Functional application availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.
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