Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs Zerto comparison

"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."

"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click. That is extremely useful."

"We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."

"It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites."

"The solution is stable."

"It is a very secure and scalable solution, and their support is also outstanding."

"The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use."

"The solution's continuous protection is the best on the market. The ability to do the split-write, without any interruption to the production server, and the ability to roll back to any point in time you desire, are two really key features."

"The most important features are the simplicity of recovery and the wider capabilities and feature sets than VMware SRM has."

"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."

"Its ease of use is most valuable. The online documentation is very clear and helpful. We are able to solve a lot of problems on our own without having to contact support."

"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."

"The most valuable features of Zerto are the ease of use and recovery speed."

"It provides real-time backup"

"The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple."

"The pricing could be better."

"The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better."

"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers."

"The solution needs improvement in cost."

"They need better reporting on the environment."

"For moving the data for DR, we are using Megaport. We are using a Megaport link between the data centers, so we have a third party for the site-to-site connectivity between the data centers. If such connectivity is available from the Nutanix side, it would be helpful for us."

"The full site recovery is not up to SRM standards."

"Maybe the reporting for the failover test could be a little better."

"As one who is implementing it, my biggest gripe is the ticketing system. Zerto has since upgraded that, so right now, I have no complaints about it."

"The GUI could be streamlined a bit more to enhance the administrative tasks."

"Zerto's setup process could be simpler."

"There are certain things about the user interface that could be a little bit more user-friendly."

"We had a situation where we had to relicense VMs once they were moved over. We later found out that that feature is built-in, but it's not easy to find. The way it's done is that you have to go to the target site to turn it on. If that were explained a little bit better up front, that would be helpful."

"We would like more mobile options. If we are at a restaurant or out and about in our normal daily lives, we would like to be able to interface via our mobiles."

"One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."

"I always want it to be cheaper."

"It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."

"Besides the license, there are additional costs with the network connection. The customer may want a direct connection between the two data centers and that has an extra cost."

"The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."

"While we find the twenty-five VM license somewhat inflexible, the actual setup costs are minimal as the product is so easy to install."

"Its licensing is yearly. You can do multi-year contracts, which is what we did. You pay per VM, and you replicate a license per VM. So, we bought about 20 licenses. We paid somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000. There is an initial upfront cost. Basically, you buy the license, and then you have a maintenance cost on top of that. So, the upfront cost is somewhere between $5,000 to $10,000. The maintenance is $5,000 to $10,000 over a three-year period."

"The licensing is a little bit steep, but there is some value that you do get for it as well."

"At close to $1,000 a license, it makes it very hard to protect all of your environment, especially for a smaller shop."

"I would like to see different service levels. They're good, but it still takes a lot of our budget in ops."

"We're getting our money's worth with Zerto."

"We find the Zerto pricing fits our budget."