We use Zerto to replicate our VMware VMs. We have two data centers in our company. We use Zerto to make sure these virtual machines which are VMware are replicated in the other data centres.
We also use Zerto as a backup tool for Windows files.
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We use Zerto to replicate our VMware VMs. We have two data centers in our company. We use Zerto to make sure these virtual machines which are VMware are replicated in the other data centres.
We also use Zerto as a backup tool for Windows files.
Zerto is already a leader in its field. I have seen the benefit of knowing that everything is protected. We've only started a disaster recovery program in the last year after running Zerto. The business is now understanding that recovering from the traditional backup software does take a long time, and it's very complex.
Using Zerto, I am the only department that can recover in minutes. The database team takes hours, the IBM platform takes hours as well. So time saving is what we see the most of Zerto.
Zerto's near-synchronous replication is very important. It's the reason we're still with Zerto. We collect blood in many hospitals, and some of our data centers are in hospitals with power grids that are not as good as commercial buildings. So, we do have servers that will crash. The servers are in the hospitals for latency reasons. And when a server crashes for any reason, it could be a chipmunk eating wires. We need to have another server with no data loss so that the clinics can keep going without having to do a whole bunch of data entry.
We don't use SAP HANA with Zerto, but we use SAP HANA with an Oracle database. These databases are replicated at the hardware storage level, not with Zerto.
Zerto has very little effect on our RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives). As long as we have the disk space, it works well. We currently have a one-hour to one-day RPO and are extending it to about four days based on recommendations.
The continuous replication with a low recovery point objective (RPO) is crucial for us.
We have mission-critical applications that, if we lose data, we lose a lot of money. Zerto's low RPO ensures minimal data loss in case of a disaster.
Zerto has the ability for us to suggest features, which we do often. We do see some of these features come to life. Better alerting is something that I feel is critical.
If you turn on the alerting of the on-prem appliances, it bombards your inbox over everything. It's too much. We had to turn that off. We use Zerto cloud analytics for alerting, and we just moved the Zerto ten about a month ago.
Some alerts, such as when one of my virtual protection groups does not have at least one day of logs configured. We find that after we do a disaster recovery failover test we recreate the virtual protection groups. Some of our junior systems admins won't specify. We need seven days of journal logs. So an alert for that would be handy.
We've been using Zerto for over eight years.
It's excellent. The product has been solid for the entire time we've used it.
We use Zerto to protect approximately 300 VMware VMs.
We have not grown Zerto in many, many years. We're likely going to double it. It should not be a problem because it's essentially almost agent-based. I feel that it can grow. We're not a very big client, so I don't know how big it can scale, but I feel that it can.
I rarely need to contact the customer service and support. The product is very good. When I have used their support, I've never had to escalate a call.
There's nothing bad about the support. They are responsive and helpful. A 10 would mean having an experience so exceptional that I would have to tell my family about it.
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Zerto was deployed before my time, so I wasn't involved in the initial deployment. However, I have been involved in upgrades, which are very simple.
I appreciate the ability to open a case with Zerto support for assistance. For our recent Zerto 10 upgrade, we also had help from Zerto Professional Services, which is a feature that management likes.
Zerto can perform disaster recovery in the cloud, but our company is not cloud-ready yet. We do not have the governance We are still trying to figure out if we were to fail over an application, is the application team aware that they will have to pay additional funding out of their call centers. So we are at a governance stage right now of planning for recovery in the cloud.
We have two active-active data centers that replicate themselves at the VMware level. We use Microsoft Azure.
We used Zerto Professional Services to assist us with the Zerto 10 upgrade. It was a great experience. The upgrade was done in about 15 minutes for both sites. They were well-prepared and knew exactly what they were doing.
We don't see ROI in terms of direct financial ROI, as we only started our disaster recovery testing about a year ago. However, based on client satisfaction and our decision to double our Zerto licenses, we see a return on investment in terms of overall client satisfaction.
We have a licensing team that manages it, but it seems to be fairly easy to use.
We looked at Veeam and NAKIVO.
The business realized the importance of quick recovery and minimal data loss, which are the main reasons why we chose and continue to use Zerto.
From an end-user interface where you use your mouse to click, Zerto is definitely the easiest. However, for the monitoring piece, where my developers have to use the APIs, Zerto is much harder than the other tools that we've used.
Zerto's recovery is the fastest, hands down. Compared to NetBackup, which takes hours, Zerto's recovery is a matter of minutes. We also use a tool similar to Veeam called NAKIVO for non-mission-critical systems, which has a one-day RPO. Nextiva is close to Zerto in terms of recovery speed, but Zerto's interface, orchestration capabilities, and ability to run scripts make it the top choice for us.
I would rate it a ten out of ten. There's nothing that compares to Zerto, nothing that works as well as it. My only complaint about it is the alerting. There are a lot of alerts that come through, and they are legit alerts. It's excellent.
We plan to use Zerto for migrating our external customers from their private data centers to our data center and Zerto's application services or other cloud services.
Zerto has improved our migration capabilities. Before Zerto, we used other applications, but they had some limitations in terms of platform compatibility. With Zerto, we have platform freedom and can migrate any customer to our data center.
The migration capabilities are very good. The platform flexibility allows us to migrate customer resources and virtual machines from any platform, like Hyper-V or VMware, and it's fast and reliable.
We're in the process of a proof of concept. It's been about three or four months.
The stability is strong and reliable.
It's scalable.
We will provide support with the help of HPE or Arlanje. We are just preparing that model.
The customer service and support are very helpful. Whenever we ask something, they respond very fast and quick. Their technical knowledge is really good.
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Zerto is faster and more reliable. In the POC process, we compared it with other technologies and brands, and Zerto is very nice.
We compared it to Veeam.
We still use our previous solution. In fact, we are not replacing that solution. We are just enriching our replication products with Zerto.
Zerto is more user-friendly.
It was easy and fast. The point is, it's really easy.
We used a consultant. The experience was very nice. They were very helpful.
It's very new for us, so we don't have that information yet.
We evaluated Acronis, Veeam, and Commvault. We chose Zerto for two reasons.
Zerto is user-friendly, fast, and reliable. We wanted to improve our replication cycle.
It's also platform-free. I can migrate resources from my customers' on-premises data centers, public clouds, and other cloud service providers' data centers to my data center. That's the biggest advantage for us.
Up to now, I would give it an eight out of ten. It's platform-free, which is the most important thing for us.
It's also easy to use, fast, reliable, and the replication process is really nice.
We use Zerto to replicate critical VMs between data centers. We also use it to do local replication whenever the servers do not have shared storage. We have recently used it to migrate some workloads from Azure down to our on-premises data center.
Zerto has improved our organization by simplifying everything because the storage is agnostic. We used SRM (Site Recovery Manager) from VMware, and it's very tied to the storage, and it has to be the same storage on both sides. The whole replication is at the storage level unless you use vSphere in the middle, which defeats the purpose. This is data storage, and you can use it if you can see it, which is very convenient.
We use the solution for one-to-one replication from data center one to data center two, from server one to server two, or from the cloud to on-premises.
We have used Zerto to help protect VMs in our environment, and its overall effect on your RPOs has been fantastic.
The speed of recovery with Zerto is simple and amazing compared to other disaster recovery solutions.
I have previously used Site Recovery Manager.
We chose to use Zerto because of the RPO and because we wanted to eliminate the dependency on storage. Everybody on my team is familiar with the tool, and it's easy to use.
The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication. The other problem is that the Linux appliance is not available for everybody, and you must have a certain license. It's very important for us that if, at some point, those servers get compromised, or that server gets patches, I don't want to rely on Windows to protect Windows.
You want this hardened appliance to protect our critical workloads. If they can make that available from version one, it shouldn't matter what license you have. This is the best way to do it, and we are going to deprecate Windows support.
I have been using Zerto for five to six years.
Besides running it on Windows, Zerto is a stable solution.
If they need more space, they grab it. If you move the SLA or want to keep more logs or history for the DVR function, you have to check everything before making your claim.
The solution’s technical support is very good.
The solution's deployment is very easy.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
We have multiple plans across the US. We use Zerto to transfer VMs from one plant to another plant, from east to west.
Zerto is a really great fallback software that gives us the redundancy we need.
Overall, the solution is really efficient. Zerto really helped us prevent the delay in bringing up the VM once it transfers because we wanted to ensure everything works.
Zerto's near-synchronous replication works great. We've had some issues before trying to synchronize VMs across long territory ranges, but Zerto did everything we needed it to do. Zerto's near-synchronous replication is extremely important to our organization. Our production line to uptime is almost 99.99%, so the near-synchronous replication really helps out.
We use SAP HANA with Zerto.
We use Zerto to protect VMs in our environment. The solution helps with recovery and ensures that we can transfer our VMs when we have a host failure. We have plants all over the US, and Zerto has really helped us keep everything running at almost 100% capacity.
Because of its near-synchronous uptime and recovery, Zerto's speed of recovery is ten times better than that of other disaster recovery solutions like Veeam and Commvault.
Compared to other solutions, Zerto's ease of use is pretty straightforward. I'm really excited to see how GreenLake has integrated Zerto and made it even more seamless.
It would be good if we could store a snapshot of the images coming through so that we can always go back and have a vision history.
I have been using Zerto for four years.
Zerto is pretty stable software, and it's always been up when we needed it.
I don't see any issues with the solution's scalability. We have 100 plants across the US and hundreds of other plants worldwide and have never had an issue adding any hosts or notes to the tool.
We deployed the solution through a consultant.
We have seen a return on investment with Zerto.
Zerto is really good software. It has all the features that I need. I love Zerto's integration with GreenLake, and now that we know more about it, we'll start utilizing it more. Zerto synchronized our VMs and delivered reliability by ensuring our hosts in different plants had a reliable backup.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten.
Our primary use cases are for disaster recovery, data center movement, long-term recovery, and backup recovery.
Zerto took our disaster recovery practice from sixteen hours down to thirty minutes.
The most valuable feature is the fully automated failover. The orchestration made the failover very easy for anyone who wasn't necessarily technically knowledgeable to be able to failover a machine.
I love Zerto's near-synchronous replication. I've been using Zerto for three years at my current employer and many years before that. It's been great. Anywhere I've used it, it's made the failover process a lot easier so that pretty much anybody can do it. This feature is our number one priority because we can keep our critical apps running if we have a failure, or even if we have a misconfiguration, it's very easy to recover something quickly.
We've moved some of our workloads to the cloud and back from the cloud using Zerto. The native tools provided by the cloud provider were not as seamless. Having DR in the cloud is very important to us because we trust that the cloud provider will provide a solution, but we also want to make sure that for our business purposes, we have a backup to disaster recoveries so that we're able to recover somewhere else if necessary.
We use Zerto to support DR on the AWS platform. We go between two different clouds. We go from VMware to Azure and also AWS.
Zerto made this quite seamless, especially going between two different clouds. It's just a matter of a couple of clicks. You don't need to understand what's happening on the back end.
We use Zerto to help protect VMs in our environment. It took our RPO from around four hours and now it could be seconds. We can recover the machine in under a minute as far as the boot time. We're between five and ten seconds RPO.
The magnitude of Zerto is much faster. We used to do a disaster recovery failover of our critical systems. It took about sixteen hours and once we had implemented Zerto, it took around thirty minutes to do for the same exact systems.
I would like for them to support additional hypervisor options. They support VMware but if they supported Hyper-V or Nutanix, it would be beneficial.
We have been using Zerto for three years.
It's been great. We've had it for three years. The only time we reboot the machines is for normal patches. We don't have to do anything else. It just works. We don't have to think about it. We've never had any issues over the three years we've been running.
We started Zerto with a small footprint. We only did a few VMs as a POC with two nodes on each side. Then we've grown it to 34 nodes on each side, including the cloud. It's always the same amount of resources. We're running 150 protected VMs in there. It runs really well.
The few times we've had to use customer service, it's never been for anything that was really broken. It's more informational or because we didn't understand how the product works. They've been great with communication, they get back to us, and even if they don't get an answer right away in one day, they'll let us know with the ticket updates that they're still working on it.
It's been really good as far as the little interaction we've had. The one nice thing is that we've never had to use it for anything that's been broken or that it's not working.
They have great communication. They don't just send you links to KB articles.
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We looked at other solutions before we purchased Zerto. We did a bake-off with a couple of other solutions. Zerto blew everything else away. The functionality is the same as everybody else, but the amount of time it takes to implement Zerto is a lot quicker.
Making changes if you want to add another machine or another workload takes virtually seconds, whereas we found other systems took a planning time and could take hours to get implemented correctly.
The setup was great. We had one of our newest engineers run through it because as part of the POC, the salesperson showed us how to install it. It was very straightforward. We took somebody who knew nothing about Zerto, had them install it and they had it installed and running in about fifteen minutes. It is quite easy to use.
I can't say it's the same for SRM. There's a lot of documentation, whereas, with Zerto you point to the button, you push, and it works.
We did the full installation ourselves.
We got the recovery time from sixteen hours to thirty minutes. Prior, when it took sixteen hours, there would be about ten or more people who were waiting for systems to come online to be able to test.
With Zerto, within an hour, we get the systems up, and then it's thirty minutes to test. Everybody can go home. There's a lot less time for people to be available. Zerto makes it much easier and quicker to get completed.
The licensing model per VM is great. It's a good way to license it because you want to protect only the devices that you're looking to protect. As far as getting the licensing and working with the sales team, they're very responsive. There's a lot of great communication, it's good all around.
We looked at VMware SRM. We also looked at a manual process. We chose Zerto for the simplicity and the cost ratio was phenomenal. It's easy enough that we've had nontechnical people able to failover just by clicking a button.
For Zerto, you add the VM in the VPG or workload, point it to the target, pick where you want it to land, hit go, and it's done. With SRM, in comparison, you'd have to make sure it's being replicated between the two SANs. You have to go to a different UI, configure all of it, make sure that's working, then go into SRM and configure all the orchestration parts. It takes a lot more planning. You really have to make sure that all the different systems work together, whereas Zerto takes care of all that for you.
I would rate Zerto a nine out of ten, there is some room for improvement. The drawback for me is that it's not compatible with every single hypervisor. If we wanted to go with another vendor for a hypervisor locally, then we'd have to look for a different solution, and there's nothing really out there that is comparable to what Zerto can do.
Our primary use case is for DR failover.
The most valuable feature is the rollback feature that captures every couple of minutes. Whenever we have a server that goes down, we can use that to pull it back a couple of minutes before and it's good to go.
The disaster recovery has been a benefit to us. The ability to capture or move something to another data center is also a really handy feature.
The near-synchronous replication is Zerto's shining feature. We leverage the most out of it.
On the technical side, we usually need more of the deeper, not near-synchronous replication. We need it more for the back backups but there's always a fire drill. There's always an emergency that needs something that happened five minutes ago to be restored.
We use Zerto to help protect VMs in your environment.
When setting up Zerto, you have to set up VRAs. I would like to see those not be needed as much. They're a little cumbersome and take up a lot of VM counts.
I have been using Zerto for around four to five years.
The stability is perfect.
It feels like scalability is what it's built for. It's seamless.
I don't usually have to call support. Some of my coworkers are a little more familiar with it, and they have always said that Zerto support is very good.
They're fast, responsive, and willing to look at issues that they're not familiar with.
An interactive chat with knowledgeable staff could be a helpful feature.
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We also looked at VMware. Zerto outperformed it and was more affordable.
What's nice about Zerto that I don't think we saw with VMware is the ability to use one console for multiple beta centers. It's really nice not having to go into a specific site to come to or from that site. If a site or a whole data center goes down, you can still access it from the other and pull over it if needed.
We had VRAs that we had to set up. The initial setup was good. The hard part was getting all of the servers into certain groups and then getting the disaster recovery plan for all of those. That was the hard part. Once you have that all setup, initiating those plans is very easy.
We have seen ROI. I'm more on the technical side so I can't give exact metrics.
I would rate Zerto a nine out of ten. It gives me everything I want and everything I would need. Failing over is easy. Disaster recovery is easy. If there was ever an event where I had to roll over a whole data center, I don't really worry about it because Zerto has been there. The setup was probably the hardest part but once you get the hard part done, the rest is easy.
Sometimes the console is a little hard to understand. Simplifying some of the commands inside of it would help. It's a very minor aspect. Sometimes the endpoint and destinations can get a little confusing and exactly how you want some of the functions to roll over can be a little bit hard to pick up.
We use Zerto for data and disaster recovery replication.
From time to time, we have to go look at the DR environment. Every time we go there, Zerto application always works. That's a benefit.
Zerto's near-synchronous replication works. The value for our business case is okay.
Zerto's near-synchronous replication is important for healthcare, but not as much because we have time to recover data.
Zerto helped protect VMs in our environment, just for the DR.
Our RPOs are not very aggressive. So, Zerto works just fine for us.
It's very easy to set up. Up until now, even with an old version, it always worked fine.
There is room for improvement in the upgrades. We are planning an upgrade now, and it seems that it's not straightforward.
In future releases, I look forward to the security feature.
We have been using Zerto for more than five years.
Stability is very good. We have complaints about stability.
We haven't had issues with scalability. When we add VMs, we just buy additional licenses.
The customer service and support are very good. Every time we have problems, they're ready to help us.
They're always available and very knowledgeable.
They need to be on-site. That would make them a ten on ten.
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We have only used Zerto.
It was very easy to deploy. There wasn't a lot of configuration needed to get the syncing working.
It is an on-premises deployment.
We used HPE Services. Our experience with them was very good.
We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto.
The pricing, setup, cost, and licensing are comparable to other solutions. Zerto is not more cost-effective.
We looked at Veeam. They're very similar. We already had the skills for Zerto, so we decided to stay with it.
We decided to stay because we have not had any problems with it, and moving to another solution doesn't make sense for us.
I would rate it an eight out of ten. The version we have doesn't have security yet, so maybe the next version will get a ten.
We use the solution for running demos for HPE partners and customers, regarding disaster recovery and backup.
Although our primary use case is to show demos to partners and customers, we think it's really valuable.
The most valuable features are disaster recovery and that the RTO takes less than ten seconds. It's a reallypotent tool.
The near-synchronous replication is really good and an advantage for customers. This feature is really important because we can show it to customers and partners, helping recovering from ransomware, and does provide huge value.
You can protect your VMs in the environment. It depends on the network and environment, but the RTO takes around 7-8 seconds. When you compare Zerto to other solutions in the market, it's very powerful.
Also, the ease of use and speed of recovery are wonderful.
I'm happy with the solution, but I would like Zerto to support other hypervisors too
And the price could be cheaper, but it is reasonable.
I have been using Zerto for two years.
It's very stable.
The scalability is really good.
We have used SRM from VMware and RapidDR from Simplivity. In comparison to those products, Zerto is really simple to use and helpful.
We are constantly trying new products. Zerto has the lowest RTO, you can recover a lot more quickly than using other solutions.
The initial setup is very easy.
We did the implementation ourselves.
Our clients think it's quite expensive but I advise them to consider all of Zerto's features.
You need to start with 25 VMs, which sometimes is too much for SMB clients in some countries. It would be better if they had the option to start with a license for less VMs, like 5 or 10.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten because of the low RTOs, the ease of use, and how helpful it is for clients.
We've used it for disaster recovery. We also use it for file recovery. We extended our journal to more days, so we were able to back up a more detailed timeline. We recently did migrations.
One of the biggest benefits is the migration. We had to move out of a data center very quickly. We were able to failover to our disaster recovery site and run our full production there for almost two months. We then fail back over to the production site using Zerto.
The ease of use and the ability to quickly recover our workloads is very simple and easy.
The near-synchronous replication is great. It allows us to failover and run production.
Zerto helps protect VMs in our environment. Zerto's overall effect on our RPOs has been excellent.
The speed of recovery with Zerto versus the speed of recovery with other disaster recovery solutions is night and day. We use Veeam for backups and the amount of time that it takes to recover is so much quicker mounting with Zerto. That's why we extended the journal so that we could capture a few more days and make it easier for us to recover files.
The amount of storage that it takes up for the journals could use improvement. Outside of that, it's been great.
I have been using Zerto for five years.
They're very stable. We had been with them for a while before HPE acquired them, and they're still going strong now. We haven't seen a lot of big changes in the way they operate, so that's always a good sign.
Support is great. Every time we have an issue, which isn't very often, they're very responsive. We get in touch with somebody very quickly and they help us through it.
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We use Veeam and we've used Datto. We chose Zerto for its ease of use. It was simple, and then we found out once we got it in-house how valuable it was. We just extended it from there.
We used Veeam, and we switched because Zerto was a lot easier. From implementation to actually protecting our VMs, it was so much easier.
Zerto is on top. Zerto is the best out there.
The initial setup was easy.
We worked with Zerto on the deployment.
We have definitely seen ROI.
We had to move out of a data center very quickly. The data center we were in filed for bankruptcy, and we had two months to move out. The ability to flip over to our recovery site in one day, and then being able to ride that until the next time we came back up, then move all of our data back to the new data center was huge for us. That would have cost us a lot.
The initial pricing seemed a little high, but once we got into it and found out what it could do and how it benefited us, it proved itself. We didn't feel that it was too far out of the ordinary. We've increased our licensing to cover our entire environment whereas before we're only covering critical servers.
I would rate Zerto a ten out of ten. When we started using it, it was very easy to use. It was easy to implement. Throughout the years, it's continued to be that same way. They've proven themselves. We've had the data center move, we've had failures, we've had different issues that happened in our environment, and they were able to meet all of our needs.
We use it for continuous data protection on our mission-critical clinical systems. I work for a hospital. We use it to prevent ransomware, malware, or basic recovery for things like our patient data and imaging system. At one point, we used to do recovery once a day. With Zerto, our recovery objective right now is in six seconds.
We had a database failure one night at around 11 o'clock, and it had probably been about 23 hours since it had a hard backup. With Zerto, we brought it up in my DR site within ten minutes, and it controlled all of the hospital's registration features. Without that system, we can't even ingest patients into our system. So we brought up that database within ten minutes, got it back in line, and continued operations.
The live test failover is the most valuable feature because it allows me to validate that my data is protected in the event of a failure.
The near-synchronous replication Zerto provides is awesome. This feature is very important, especially because in today's age of ransomware and everything is so data-centric in a hospital, I need to be able to identify the point in time of infection and recover to the most up-to-date available point in time that I can without having to lose patient data. At one point, we used to do a 24-hour recovery. but in today's day and age, you can't lose a day's worth of data.
We use Zerto to protect our VMs in our environment. It improved our RPOs because before we had 24-hour RPO, and now I'm within ten minutes.
Zerto's speed of recovery is fast compared to other solutions. We use Zerto and Veeam. Zerto already has the disks, which must be signed into and presented. There's a lot of rescanning involved, but Azure builds the VM, attaches the disks, and powers it up. We're leveraging RTO in under ten minutes.
The price could be improved. It's pretty expensive per server, but in the long run, it's well worth the level of protection it provides.
I have been using Zerto since 2023.
Stability is very good.
Scalability is excellent.
Support is very good.
We used Veeam, which didn't offer any CDP. We use Zerto primarily for continuous protection.
The initial setup was easy. We had a professional services engagement when we bought our first pack of licenses. They came in and worked with us. We had monthly and weekly meetings for three months to set up everything.
We do not use disaster recovery in the cloud. We have an actual on-prem DR site. We have a multisite Zerto environment that I can bring up in multiple locations, but we do primarily on-prem recovery.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten for its ease of use, functionality, and multi-tenant support with ransomware detection.