I am using HPE Zerto Software to protect almost 50% of our 100% VMware-based environment, with three levels of protection—Silver, Gold, and Platinum—ensuring data safety and consistency.

My usual use cases for HPE Zerto Software involve operations spread around two geographical locations in Brazil, with one in the south and another in the southwest, about 500 kilometers apart, ensuring our operations and customer operations continue if something bad happens.

As an MSP, I serve customers who use HPE Zerto Software for disaster recovery in our infrastructure rather than a physical data center.

Having disaster recovery in the cloud is essential for us because I trust in a hybrid environment design, which our business needs for disaster recovery.

HPE Zerto Software's most valuable features for us are the ease of use and implementation, along with its ability to detect suspicious ransomware situations proactively, which is very useful and differentiated.

HPE Zerto Software has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to grow our business as an MSP, leading to a revenue increase of around 10%, and as a customer, we have not experienced any downtime for the past four years, achieving 100% uptime.

Overall, HPE Zerto Software has significantly impacted our IT resiliency strategy by enabling us to have a cost-effective disaster recovery solution without the need for expensive hardware or data center space.

I believe HPE Zerto Software could be improved by enhancing support for a wider range of hypervisors, as many customers are transitioning from VMware to alternatives, and I need HPE Zerto Software to integrate with these new environments.

I have been working with HPE Zerto Software for around four years, since HPE bought HPE Zerto Software and we started to use it.

I have had situations where stability was tested, but HPE Zerto Software has helped me recover our operation as expected. I would rate the stability and reliability of HPE Zerto Software as a 10, which I believe is fair enough.

In terms of scalability, HPE Zerto Software has shown no limits. I started small and have since expanded our environment significantly without encountering any limitations.

Regarding technical support, I occasionally encountered issues mostly associated with onboarding new environments or integrations, but core operations ran smoothly most of the time, with support usually meeting expected deadlines.

Before using HPE Zerto Software, I was actually still using another solution based on Veeam Backup & Replication for part of our environment. I decided to start using HPE Zerto Software when new needs arose for quicker RPOs of seconds, as my previous tool only allowed hours.

HPE Zerto Software's initial setup was very straightforward, with no significant challenges, largely due to the great support from the vendor.

I participated in the initial setup of HPE Zerto Software, which was impressive, completing a POC in just one day and having it fully operational in less than four days.

HPE Zerto Software has dramatically reduced the headaches I faced with DR testing. Now I conduct tests weekly and sometimes even twice a week. I believe HPE Zerto Software has saved my technicians more than 50% of the time in data recovery situations.

I am aware of the pricing and licensing of HPE Zerto Software. I would say it used to be an affordable solution, but as competitors emerge, pricing may come under pressure.

I evaluated other solutions when searching for disaster recovery options, but I selected HPE Zerto Software because it was the best fit for our needs. In addition to HPE Zerto Software, I looked at Veeam, storage-based replication, VMware's vSphere replication, and Commvault, with VMware replication being the closest in terms of RPO. VMware replication was the closest solution but was limited to VMware, while HPE Zerto Software offered a multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud solution, which was crucial for me.

While I appreciate the time saved, we are always striving for a more efficient operation and aiming for a 70% time savings. In terms of usability, I find both HPE Zerto Software and Veeam to be equally easy to operate. HPE Zerto Software's recovery speed is comparable to other solutions, as recovery speed largely depends on our physical environment. I rate this review a 10.

I used HPE Zerto Software for replication of virtual machines. I can speak about one special case with one of my customers in the past. This was based in a VMware environment to replicate the most critical virtual machines to the secondary data center, and also to run several tests during the year. The solution was fantastic because it performed correctly and we could recover in the secondary data center. I have used HPE Zerto Software to help protect virtual machines.

My favorite feature of HPE Zerto Software is the journal functionality. Because we can recover the virtual machine at the last replication, but we can also recover using the journal to recover the virtual machine before a specific event, for example before ransomware. If we have detected the ransomware at one point in time, we can recover before this event.

I think HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication is the best in the market for replication. In my opinion, I checked other tools like Veeam and others, and this is the best because it's a specific tool to run disaster recovery and works at one hundred percent.

What I dislike about HPE Zerto Software is maybe the reporting. The reporting is basic. Some customers want specific reports, and we have to connect to other third parties or third tools to extract the information. Maybe this is something that HPE Zerto Software should work on and improve.

Using HPE Zerto Software helps to reduce DR testing because the DR test works properly. However, customers want to get a runbook for the DR test. We can recover virtual machines in order using HPE Zerto Software, but we cannot create dependencies between machines. If we run this first machine, then we could recover machines A, B, C, D in sequence. This is something that customers have requested in the past.

I have been working with HPE Zerto Software for four years.

In my experience with HPE Zerto Software, we do not have any kind of issues.

Talking about the scalability of HPE Zerto Software, it's proper in my market. I'm not sure about enterprise accounts because I remember they have some stoppers since we can scale to several virtual appliances. But in my market and with my customers, it worked properly.

I contacted HPE Zerto Software support and it was good.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give a score of eight to the support of HPE Zerto Software.

The overall support quality and the speed of answers from HPE Zerto Software is standard in the rest of the vendors. It depends on if the case is critical or not, but in my opinion, it's the standard in the market.

Deploying HPE Zerto Software is very easy.

It took me time to deploy HPE Zerto Software for the first time.

I only had to review the virtual appliance and also check with an HPE Zerto Software presales representative. After that first attempt, I could do it by myself and it worked fantastically.

For the deployment of HPE Zerto Software, we need two persons: one from the partner in my case and in my role, and also one from the customer.

About the pricing of HPE Zerto Software, I'm not sure because I don't remember what the price is. In the past, it was expensive. Not much expensive, but more expensive than other vendors. I tried to close some deals, and the customer felt the solution was good and they wanted it, but they discarded it for financial reasons. Other solutions cover similar functionality but not the same RPO or enhancements. They decided from the financial side and discarded HPE Zerto Software, and maybe this is something to change.

In the past, I used alternatives to HPE Zerto Software such as VMware Replication and also Veeam Backup or Veeam Replication. I used these two options.

My overall experience in this field is two years.

The overall effect of HPE Zerto Software on my RPOs is that the RPO is the minimum that I know with the other vendors. We can recover the virtual machines near to zero, near in seconds. We have to recover the vital virtual machine with the last change in seconds.

HPE Zerto Software has helped me to reduce downtime in various situations.

For example, with the same customer from before, the recovery only takes minutes for the critical machines to be recovered in the secondary data center. The vital machine can start and we can test it and confirm it's working properly and also run the failback. In my opinion, it's fantastic.

I would rate this review a seven out of ten.

My main use case for HPE Zerto Software is data center migration, as I primarily use it for data center migration from site to site and for disaster recovery purposes.

A specific example of using HPE Zerto Software for data center migration is a recent project wherein Zerto was installed in the remote data center. VPGs were configured, and using those VPGs, the workloads from the remote data center were brought to my own data centers. I have multiple data centers in my workspace and I use Zerto there for disaster recovery purposes, such as setting up bidirectional protection.

I am adding automation into my day-to-day HPE Zerto Software tasks.

The best features HPE Zerto Software offers include quick failover, such as failover from the remote data center to my own data center, which works great without any issues.

The failover feature stands out for me mainly because of its reliability. It is highly reliable, easy to configure, not too complex, and easy to manage.

HPE Zerto Software has positively impacted my organization as I basically take over small organizations, and while taking over those organizations, when the workloads are moved into my environment, Zerto plays a crucial part in moving those workloads from one data center to another.

The reduction in downtime is a very important concept, and it is an instantaneous process. VPGs are configured before the actual failover and the failover time is very low from one data center to another, especially when the VPGs are configured properly. The process is seamless.

Adding more features would be great, such as hardware version upgrades upon failover to the data centers and VM tools upgrades.

Automation can also be improved and made as easy as HPE Zerto Software is to manage. If that automation becomes as easy as that, then it becomes easier to manage.

I have been using HPE Zerto Software for more than three years.

HPE Zerto Software is stable, quite cost-effective, and easy to manage, making the work easier.

HPE Zerto Software's scalability is good. Based on my requirements, I can install it wherever required with proper credentials and permissions. It is quite scalable, easily installable, and manageable.

Customer support is quite easy to reach out to. They are very approachable, which makes the work easier.

In my previous organization, I used VMware. In this organization, I also have VMware, but I am using it in combination with HPE Zerto Software. In my previous organization, I used VMware-based disaster recovery techniques.

I have seen a return on investment as fewer employees are needed. Since HPE Zerto Software makes the failover easier, a smaller number of people can do the same job for a maximum number of workloads, and I do not need high expertise candidates to do the work. Hence, the amount of money required for investment decreases.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is easy to manage and install. Licensing is quite cost-effective, and for enterprise-based management, it is great.

Before choosing HPE Zerto Software, I evaluated other options, primarily VMware Site Recovery Manager in my previous organization. Similarly, in this present organization, I compared Site Recovery Manager with HPE Zerto Software, and after all the comparisons, I decided to go ahead with HPE Zerto Software.

My advice to others looking into using HPE Zerto Software is that if you are looking for a solution for disaster recovery or failover, especially from a workload perspective while managing multiple data centers, HPE Zerto Software is probably one of the best solutions to consider. Before going ahead with any other products, HPE Zerto Software should be kept in mind when doing comparisons.

HPE Zerto Software is one of the best software solutions that I have used to date. I have experience with multiple disaster recovery solutions such as VMware, Site Recovery Manager, and others, and based on that, HPE Zerto Software stands out among all as one of the best software solutions I have used. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

My main use case for HPE Zerto Software is disaster recovery. For disaster recovery, I use HPE Zerto Software with set and forget options to protect critical production databases.

HPE Zerto Software offers the best features in that it works reliably, has set and forget functionality, and does exactly what it is said to do.

The particular features that make HPE Zerto Software so reliable for me are replication and failover. HPE Zerto Software has impacted my organization positively because it does what it is supposed to do.

HPE Zerto Software is fine the way it is and does not need improvement. I do not have any additional thoughts about needed improvements.

I have been using HPE Zerto Software for six years.

I do not have anything else to add about how I use HPE Zerto Software in my environment. I do not have anything else to add about the features. I would rate HPE Zerto Software an eight on a scale of one to ten because there are some quirks and issues with deployment that keep it from being a ten. My advice to others looking into using HPE Zerto Software is to conduct your research and make sure the product is right for you. My overall rating for HPE Zerto Software is an eight.

The near-synchronous replication does replicate in real-time. That's another great feature of HPE Zerto Software. The asynchronous replication is valuable because I tried to understand the journaling behind it, and that's one of the wonderful features about it.

Regarding the impact on RTOs and RPOs, definitely, all because of the backend technology, it has really saved my RTOs and RPOs for any kind of recovery. Otherwise, we would have to be very specific about RTOs and RPOs for each and every application. Journaling is one thing which is a good feature about it.

HPE Zerto Software has reduced our organization's DR testing, saving around thirty to forty percent time for us.

The areas that have room for improvement include the GUI. The other thing is the VRA portion which is required to be installed on each and every ESXi. A better integration might help us for the VRA monitoring. That might be one of the useful features.

In terms of maintenance, that's fairly fine.

From one to ten, I rate their technical support ten out of ten. I have had a very nice experience working with HPE Zerto Software.

HPE Zerto Software has helped with RTOs and RPOs maybe around thirty percent.

We have not come across the issue of data recovery due to ransomware or any other causes, but if that kind of situation comes up in the POC, we have seen it's been a remarkably nice set of solution for the recovery.

I prefer HPE Zerto Software.

I would recommend HPE Zerto Software to other users. In the POC, that's one thing that I can recommend. It also gives you a kind of hybrid model. That's also another reason why I will be recommending the solution. It's a one-stop solution for doing your disaster recovery, irrespective of what cloud you are running.

We do use a Cyber Vault solution or immutable data copies to recover from attacks.

My thoughts on the integration capabilities overall is that it's awesome. This is one of the best features about HPE Zerto Software as for the integration part.

I rate this review nine out of ten.

The primary use case for HPE Zerto Software is disaster recovery. I use HPE Zerto Software to help protect VMs in my environment.

One of the most important features of HPE Zerto Software is the ability to easily recover systems based on the required point in time. The possibility to recover systems to the desired point in time while containing consistency within the whole application is significant.

My impression of its near-synchronous replication is that it covers the majority of all use cases. It cannot cover all scenarios and very sophisticated requirements, such as near-zero replication. However, in most cases, these capabilities are fully sufficient to have the system fully operational because I am aware that in case of a real issue or real disaster, there is always the loss of data. This is acceptable functionality in my opinion.

HPE Zerto Software is not reducing our DR testing because we have DR tests based on our policies and they are conducted periodically. However, the amount of time needed to perform DR exercises itself and the engagement of teams required to be present during the recovery test helps much and lowers the costs for the company. This software allows for almost fully automatic recovery, which means that the teams are required only for the verification phase, not during the entire recovery process. This also impacts the costs for DR exercise execution, meaning the costs are lower compared to the scenario when the team responsible for the application needs to recover the system from a backup solution.

In my opinion, it is hard to predict how HPE Zerto Software can be improved in the future because this software is used for a very specific purpose which it works fine for. This purpose is quite limited, so there are all required functionalities now provided by HPE Zerto Software within the application. It is possible to recover the virtual machines and recover pods from Docker solutions, for example. The application itself cannot recover physical servers, so I would point that out as a feature request that could be discussed by the HPE Zerto Software team as a new functionality, if possible.

Regarding specific security examples that made me decide to switch to HPE Zerto Software, I did not have security concerns. Before using HPE Zerto Software, we did not have the specific requirement from the security perspective to use such software. Probably now as there is DORA requirement, NIST, and NIS requirement. However, we were using this software before this law started, so we already used this software.

I have been using HPE Zerto Software for almost 10 years.

I am generally very pleased with the technical support provided by HPE, so I would rate it a 10.

Unfortunately, I do not use any other software in this approach because we have only HPE Zerto Software. Therefore, I do not have experience with any competitors, such as Veeam, Rubrik, and others. I did not have the chance to use them in a normal production manner.

The initial setup of HPE Zerto Software is not complicated; it is very simple. You have everything from an infrastructure perspective prepared, so you have the privileges configured on the hypervisor solution, along with all components such as network, storage, capacity, and CPU prepared. The installation itself lasts one to two hours at most. After the initial installation, it is only the configuration for the production workload, depending on needs and scenarios and how many systems you have in protection. From my understanding, the initial configuration and installation are very easy and smooth based on my experience. However, some preparation is required, but this is normal for any solution, not just for HPE Zerto Software.

I am not able to estimate the cost of downtime. However, let me imagine that a typical application recovery process lasts two to three hours and it takes two to three persons to be involved in this process. Let me assume that such engagement is not for one application but for 100 applications. Then let me compare it to the situation when you have all these systems protected with HPE Zerto Software and one person is able to recover their systems in minutes and only asks the application teams to verify if it is working fine after recovery. This causes huge numbers of FTE engaged in the DR process, whether in simulations or the real disaster recovery process, measured in many hours compared to minutes that can even be done in parallel. I think the return of value is huge. This is based on not only one action but comparing activities performed four times a year because of the policies requiring such exercises, which many teams are involved in.

I can confirm that HPE Zerto Software has reduced downtime in various situations, and it has reduced, as I mentioned previously, the engagement of the teams required to recover their systems.

Comparing HPE Zerto Software's recovery speed to competitors, I cannot compare what is the time required to recover the systems. However, compared to backups, as this is the initial way to recover systems after failures, it is much faster because it is measured in minutes to recover systems. Compared to traditional backup solutions, it is much faster.

I assess HPE Zerto Software's overall effect on my RPOs by stating that we use it both in simulations, meaning the DR exercises, which we perform periodically in our production environment. As it is, the DR exercise is controlled, which means that we have no loss of data in that case. However, we also had examples of using the software during a real disaster that happened in our infrastructure, and it also worked fine. The RPO requirements were met during the recovery actions, so for us, it proved that it worked fine.

Regarding the pricing of HPE Zerto Software, I find it reasonable. I rate this review a 10.

The main purpose of HPE Zerto Software is disaster recovery, which is mainly what we focus on, along with data protection. HPE Zerto Software has significant strength in cyber resilience and disaster recovery.

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud.

Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services.

With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

Regarding HPE Zerto Software, the learning curve is where I see room for improvement. There should be more features, such as tutorials.

Regarding documentation for HPE Zerto Software, it should not be in-depth, but at least more accessible so that people can understand it easily with simple jargon. For example, if someone mentions RPO or VPGs, new users might not understand it. There should be greater ease of understanding.

I have been using HPE Zerto Software for more than three and a half years in our organization, and we are using the Zerto migration utility. I can consider my usage period to be more than three and a half years.

Regarding stability, I would give HPE Zerto Software a rating of 9.

For scalability, I rate HPE Zerto Software a 9 as well.

On a scale from 1 to 10, I rate the technical support for HPE Zerto Software as 8.5. If it were a solid number, I would say it is a 9.

When comparing HPE Zerto Software with other solutions such as Veeam, VMware, Druva, and Commvault, I can say it has very sophisticated solutions providing good backup capabilities, ransomware recovery, and better RTO and RPO. Although HPE Zerto Software's pricing is somewhat higher, it includes very good features across the board.

The deployment of HPE Zerto Software is very easy compared to other solutions.

The deployment took only two weeks, and we received excellent support from the HPE Zerto Software team.

From the recovery point of view while working with HPE Zerto Software, we save a lot in terms of time, money, and resources, especially during critical applications and deployment time, which is less complex compared to other applications.

In terms of percentage, we save more than thirty percent with HPE Zerto Software.

Regarding the pricing of HPE Zerto Software, I would say it is not high but rather in the mid-range. HPE Zerto Software was purchased through a partner purchase.

My advice for others looking to implement HPE Zerto Software is to always refer to the resources available. I recommend HPE Zerto Software. Overall, considering the learning curves and pricing, I give HPE Zerto Software an 8 out of 10.

HPE Zerto Software's main use cases include graphics, restore RPO, and RTO. I have used HPE Zerto Software to help protect VMs in my environment. For VM restore only, it takes about 10 minutes or less for RPOs.

HPE Zerto Software's best features for me are the instant restore and the marking of suspicious malicious activities on the backup job.

When I implemented HPE Zerto Software, my impression of near-synchronous replication is that it works well and achieves very low latency, with only a few seconds delay—seven or eight seconds only. Overall, I see a very good impact from near-synchronous replication and consider it a very good feature.

HPE Zerto Software is more speedy when comparing recovery speed to other disaster recovery products. With Arcserve, I took a few hours to restore the VM and the service, but with HPE Zerto Software, it's just a few minutes only, which is very good.

HPE Zerto Software helps to reduce downtime in various situations. Although I haven't used it in production yet, during drills and theoretical scenarios, it proves effective in saving a significant amount of time.

So far, I do not see any areas for improvement in HPE Zerto Software. Currently, there are no minor improvements I can think of, and I have no concerns so far.

I have been using HPE Zerto Software for just a few months after changing from Arcserve.

During the POC with old hardware, I encountered some performance issues, but that is a hardware problem and not due to HPE Zerto Software.

HPE Zerto Software is flexible to scale. I can buy just a few or more as needed, and it offers great flexibility.

I believe HP support is very good. They follow the SLA and the local engineer is well-informed about HPE Zerto Software. The technical support is excellent. There are instances where I need to follow up and self-investigate, but overall, everything is fine with the support.

I compare HPE Zerto Software to Arcserve backup. I think HPE Zerto Software is easier and more simple than Arcserve, the previous product.

Deployment of HPE Zerto Software was easy for me. I accomplished the deployment in-house.

I purchased HPE Zerto Software from a local distributor.

I have not seen any return on investment from HPE Zerto Software yet.

I think HPE Zerto Software is expensive. If I had to rate its expense from zero to ten, I would give it about 1.5 compared to other products.

I currently work with HPE Zerto Software as my backup solution, previously utilizing HP as part of my infrastructure. Even though I have been using HPE Zerto Software for just a few months, I find it incredible because it's much better than the CA backup I used previously.

HPE Zerto Software has helped to reduce my company's DR testing. With its drill and test functionality in a separate environment, I think it could save three or four hours during testing.

My company decided to switch to HPE Zerto Software for the enhanced protection and benefits of ransomware prevention for backup data, as well as effective RPO and RTO functionality. Every function is working very well.

Although I haven't used HPE Zerto Software on the production environment, only in drills or POCs, I think it could save a few hours similar to those tests. Regarding time savings in data recovery due to ransomware or other causes, there is potential for improvement.

I observed savings because I combine HPE Zerto Software with hardware for multiple backups. It wouldn't be a comprehensive solution without another safe place to store backup data, so I believe it needs to be combined effectively.

I am not sure about data recovery in the cloud since I have only implemented HPE Zerto Software on-premises. My overall rating for this product is 10 out of 10.

HPE Zerto Software’s near-real-time replication capability is a critical part of how we deliver disaster recovery to our clients. Operating in The Bahamas, we are in a hurricane-prone region, so geographic resilience is a major concern. Many of our clients value the assurance that, in the event of a natural disaster, loss of power, or even the complete destruction of a local data center, their environments can be brought online in a different jurisdiction and continue operating exactly as they would on-premises. This level of protection and peace of mind is one of the primary reasons we deploy Zerto for our customers.

In addition to disaster recovery, some clients use HPE Zerto Software for testing and validation purposes. The platform allows us to run disaster recovery tests in an isolated environment that mirrors production, enabling clients to validate real-world failure scenarios during business hours without disrupting live systems. This has been especially valuable for organizations that want confidence in their recovery plans but cannot afford downtime.

HPE Zerto Software also enables us to deliver disaster recovery in the cloud rather than relying solely on physical data centers. We typically provide clients with a virtual data center where their replicated environments reside, allowing for faster deployment and greater flexibility. One of Zerto’s strongest advantages is that it is hypervisor-agnostic, supporting platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, and public cloud environments. While some customers still prefer dedicated physical infrastructure for private deployments, the majority of our clients are comfortable with a cloud-based approach. For them, Zerto has proven to be an efficient, reliable, and scalable solution that accelerates recovery readiness while simplifying overall operations.

One of HPE Zerto Software’s best features for us is its built-in ransomware resilience. Zerto continuously journals data changes and uses anomaly detection to identify unusual write behavior that may indicate a ransomware or cyberattack. This gives us early visibility into potential threats and allows us to respond quickly.

A key strength of the platform is its immutable journaling and recovery checkpoints. Zerto maintains frequent, immutable restore points that cannot be altered or encrypted by ransomware. This allows customers to roll environments back to a point just before an incident occurred, with confidence that the data has not been compromised. From a customer perspective, this provides a high level of assurance that their data remains protected and recoverable even in the event of a successful attack

While Zerto is hypervisor-agnostic and reliably replicates data, newer VM hardware versions, particularly in VMware environments, may not be immediately supported when customers update aggressively. This can create challenges in shared or cloud-based Zerto platforms, where upgrading the Zerto infrastructure to support a single customer’s newer version may impact other tenants.

It would be beneficial to see more flexibility around supporting older and newer platform versions simultaneously, or enhanced tooling to better manage version mismatches in multi-tenant environments. This would help service providers accommodate customers who move quickly with upgrades without forcing platform-wide changes that affect other clients.

I have been working with HPE Zerto Software for about the last eight years.

Zerto scales really well as environments grow. We’ve used it in smaller deployments and in larger, more complex environments, and the overall management doesn’t change much as you add more workloads. Once the core setup and networking are in place, protecting additional VMs or expanding to another site is fairly straightforward.

One of the things that helps with scalability is that Zerto is consistent across different platforms. Whether workloads are on-prem, in a secondary data center, or in the cloud, the replication process works the same way. That makes it easier to scale without having to learn or manage different tools for different environments.

We have been exposed to other solutions in the market, such as Veeam and some of VMware’s native replication options, but we did not extensively deploy them for disaster recovery. While Veeam does offer replication capabilities, our organization standardized early on HPE Zerto Software, and it has remained our primary disaster recovery platform.

We chose to stay with HPE Zerto Software because it consistently met our recovery objectives and aligned well with our operational model. As a result, we have continued to build our disaster recovery services around Zerto rather than switching between multiple tools. This focus has allowed us to develop deep expertise with the platform and deliver a consistent, reliable disaster recovery experience for our customers.

The initial setup with HPE Zerto Software is very straightforward. Deploying the platform itself is a breeze, and getting replication up and running does not take much effort. The only part that can become more complex is configuring the environment to match the customer’s specific needs, which can vary depending on networking, security requirements, and how the target environment is designed.

Overall, the core setup is simple, and any added complexity usually comes from tailoring the solution to fit the customer’s environment rather than from the product itself.

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is more expensive than many competing solutions on the market. However, in our experience, the value becomes clear very quickly once customers see the product in action. Zerto is relatively easy to set up, and its ability to demonstrate near real-time replication and recovery in a live demo makes it much easier to justify the cost.

While pricing can initially be a concern, running a proof of concept typically shifts the conversation. Once customers understand the benefits, particularly around recovery speed, minimal data loss, and operational simplicity, they tend to focus less on price and more on how to adopt the solution within their environment. From that point, licensing discussions become more straightforward, as the product effectively sells itself based on performance and reliability.

I have seen and been around certain applications such as Veeam. Veeam has a replication option, but I have never fully explored it. We bought into HPE Zerto Software, and it has always been HPE Zerto Software as our number one go-to for disaster recovery. I know that VMware has some built-in replication options as well, but we have really and truly stayed in the same lane of disaster recovery with HPE Zerto Software.

HPE Zerto Software is what we often describe as the Ferrari of disaster recovery. It is a very refined platform with strong built-in safeguards, near-real-time replication, and a clean, intuitive management interface through Zerto Virtual Manager. The ability to manage access through Active Directory or independent logins, combined with immutable journaling and ransomware anomaly detection, gives us a high level of confidence in both security and recoverability.

Zerto excels in fast recovery and low disruption. We can restore workloads to just before an incident occurs, significantly reducing downtime and data loss. We have successfully used it to recover from a real ransomware incident, restoring clean environments quickly and keeping business impact to a minimum. Its migration capabilities are equally strong, allowing us to move workloads with minimal interruption while continuously capturing incremental changes until cutover.

Disaster recovery testing is another major strength. Zerto allows us to perform full DR tests during business hours in an isolated environment without impacting production, which has led to more frequent and more effective testing for our clients. The platform is also easy to operate, reducing the number of staff required during recovery scenarios and simplifying ongoing management.

My advice to organizations considering HPE Zerto Software is to clearly understand their recovery objectives. If you require very low RPOs, fast recovery times, and confidence against ransomware or major outages, Zerto is an excellent choice. While it may be more expensive than some alternatives, its performance, reliability, and ease of use justify the cost—particularly for medium to large enterprises.