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Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Dell Technologies is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 4.4% mindshare in DRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines compete in data protection and disaster recovery for virtual environments. HPE Zerto Software has an upper hand regarding ease of use and value, while Dell RecoverPoint excels in advanced recovery features.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers streamlined management, real-time data integration, and flexible data recovery. Dell RecoverPoint provides comprehensive recovery, point-in-time snapshots, and continuous data protection for complex recovery scenarios.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto's primary areas for growth include enhancing the user interface to reduce learning curves, expanding integrations with other platforms, and offering customizable recovery workflows. Dell RecoverPoint could improve through simplified setup processes, a more intuitive management console, and reduced resource usage during replication tasks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software features a straightforward deployment and strong support, facilitating easy setup and transitions. Dell RecoverPoint, equipped with a robust feature set, may demand more deployment time and expertise. Its customer service, while efficient, could be more intuitive compared to HPE's offering.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software provides competitive setup costs, yielding significant ROI due to its efficiency and rapid implementation. Dell RecoverPoint, with potentially higher upfront costs, justifies the investment through its extensive functionality and tailored solutions, offering strong ROI for complex operations.

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Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. HPE Zerto Software
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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HPE Zerto Software
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
345
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 4.4%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 7.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software7.9%
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines4.4%
Other87.7%
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
 

Featured Reviews

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Alex McIntosh
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Seamless data protection and IP address management streamline server failover
I recommend Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. I work for a financial institution, and it does what we need it to do. I would rate the product eight out of ten. For improvement, I suggest better orchestration management for easier failovers. I would rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.
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David Riberdy
Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises
Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are the data center recovery administration and the time of recovery."
"The generalization of the journals allows us to go back in time and choose the snapshot suitable for us. We can grab it as needed."
"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any kind of bug or glitch. We haven't experienced crashes."
"The technical support from Dell is excellent."
"Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots."
"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."
"The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site."
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"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."
"Zerto has helped us reduce overall DR testing in our company. What used to take a month I can do in less than two days."
"The features of HPE Zerto Software that I prefer the most are the backup and the vault. It helps with business continuity."
"The pricing and licensing are excellent. It's very straightforward."
"Zerto's support for different hypervisors is a valuable feature because we have a mixed bag. We have VMware and we have Hyper-V. For us, that was extremely critical when we made the decision. We wanted a single tool that is able to replicate all our virtual servers. At this point, I think the only tool on the market that can do that on-premise is Zerto."
"Since we are at a bank, there are certain protocols in place where we need to have RPO and RTO times of two hours or less. Zerto does a great job of setting those times and alerting us if those can't be met. We have our help desk actively monitoring that. It is extremely helpful that Zerto lists what is falling out of compliance in regards to RPO and RTO. It has been great in that regard."
"While I cannot provide a specific example where these features helped my organization since we haven't had a real recovery scenario, it provides peace of mind knowing our data is protected and we can always return to previous checkpoints."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
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Cons

"It should have features for recovering a group of virtual machines and full-scale security. For recovering all the VMs at once, they don't have a GUI option, and we have to use the command line."
"It can have better integration. It would be good if, in addition to VMware VM, it can also support other hypervisors. I also want to see support for Oracle databases. As of now, it supports only SQL and Exchange. It would be good to also support other databases."
"The configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."
"The solution currently supports only VMware."
"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."
"Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover."
"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."
"I would like to see integration with EMC NetWorker in the next release."
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"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"Right now, our production environment runs on-premises, and we have a DR copy of everything that we run in production. However, our development runs on that hardware. In the case of a DR event, we would need to shut down development and bring up our secondary copy of production. We're hoping that Zerto is going to be the tool to help us do that."
"The only thing I could suggest for HPE Zerto Software would be better support for detached drives in a clustered environment, as it's currently not supported very well unless everything's running on a virtualized VMDK file."
"They should not make it so expensive so that I can buy more of it."
"I don't have any idea of areas fro improvement."
"Zerto can improve the dashboard by making it even more simple. Right now, there's a lot on the dashboard, and it can be overwhelming. If you're an experienced user, then you'll find it easy to use, but if you're a beginner, it will take you some time."
"I'm unsure of what can be improved."
"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."
"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."
"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."
"This is an expensive product."
"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."
"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."
"Zerto is very cost-effective. We get really great value for the cost of the service."
"Pricing is kind of expensive, but for what we get, it is probably worth it. I know they just had a huge price increase due to the VMware stuff getting expensive, which added about a thousand dollars a month to our bill."
"I think the cost is reasonable for VM licensing. It's not outside the scope of an enterprise product."
"It was a little bit expensive. It took a long time for us to get DR for our workstations. It's one thing when you have 15 servers, but when we needed to bring on almost another 200 users, and each was the same price as the servers, it was too expensive. But Zerto worked with us and gave us a solution that was pretty decent in terms of price."
"Zerto is reasonably price for the product that you're getting. We keep on buying more licenses, so it's a good price."
"I think everything can be cheaper. Pricing limited our ability to use Zerto as much as we'd like, but that's not why we haven't adopted it as our primary backup solution."
"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."
"In general, it's pretty fair because it is software. In our case, we built our own colo. So, the cost of the colo was very expensive, and that's where a lot of the equipment is. The same thing is there if we were going to spin up in the cloud, but as a solution, in general, it's pretty fair for what you get out of it and how it works. It's not cheap, but at the same time, you get what you pay for, and it's definitely worth the cost. You just have to understand that the cost of the software alone is not the total cost of the project of doing ransomware protection or disaster recovery. It's a piece of the pie, not the entire pie."
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Comparison Review

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
7%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business90
Midsize Enterprise87
Large Enterprise197
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?
Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.
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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?
Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.
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What is your primary use case for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?
I was actually just having a quick look to compare some solutions, but we are going to stick with what we currently have, which is Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ( /products/dell-recoverpoi...
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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...
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What do you like most about Zerto?
Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?
From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...
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Also Known As

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Zerto Virtual Replication
 

Overview

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations. 

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.  

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS. 

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite. 

Dell Technologies

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
 

Sample Customers

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