HPE Zerto Software vs OpenText Data Protector comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and OpenText are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #22 with an average rating of 9.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 2.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to OpenText’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

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98% willing to recommend

OpenText Data Protector

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

OpenText Data Protector and HPE Zerto Software are competing in the backup and disaster recovery market. HPE Zerto Software appears to have the upper hand due to its strong disaster recovery capabilities, near-zero RPO capabilities, and higher customer service ratings.

Features: OpenText Data Protector integrates with a wide range of systems for physical and virtual backups, supports extensive application integrations, and offers comprehensive deduplication capabilities. HPE Zerto Software is notable for its robust disaster recovery capabilities, including near-zero RPO, granular recovery points, and continuous replication that is valued for critical data protection.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Data Protector's user interface is seen as outdated and complex, coupled with poor reporting features and slow technical support. It faces compatibility challenges with newer cloud technologies. HPE Zerto Software could improve by enhancing its backup functionalities and reporting features, offering more integration options across multiple platforms, and adopting a more flexible licensing model.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Data Protector deployments are mainly on-premises with some hybrid options, requiring specialized knowledge. Users frequently report long resolution times from customer service. HPE Zerto Software supports hybrid and cloud deployments with easy integration and is praised for higher customer service ratings with quick technical responses.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Data Protector offers competitive pricing with flexible licensing models but can become expensive with additional features. It provides good ROI through efficient data management. HPE Zerto Software is more expensive, but its per-VM pricing model is justified by its comprehensive feature set, providing superior ROI for enterprise-focused disaster recovery and data protection with reliable and prompt recovery times.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

347

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

OpenText Data Protector

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

22nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 2.0%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	2.0%
OpenText Data Protector	1.0%
Other	97.0%

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reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud 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.

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Ahmad-Hassan

Project Manager And Technical Consultant at EEMC

Provides effective backup for physical servers and needs improvements for cloud compatibility

We use OpenText Data Protector for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security OpenText Data Protector is good for physical backup, specifically for physical servers. It is effective for direct backups to EMC library or storage without using a repository. However,…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Zerto offered us massive time saving and consistency. We have a consistent outcome every time we complete conversions."

"HPE Zerto Software's recovery speed to other disaster recovery solutions shows that it's superior."

"A great Zerto feature is the non-intrusive failover of the application, similar to an actual disaster recovery test without impacting the services that are currently online. Sometimes customers need to failover to an isolated environment and validate an application without impacting the production environment: we can achieve this goal with Zerto. Again, we can do regular testing in a non-impactful way using isolated testing. For customers of our DRaaS we include once a year, a live test that is more like what would happen if the customer lost the production site. Near-synchronous replication is one of the benefits of Zerto that drove us to choose it over some others. With typical backup and recovery solutions, the recovery point typically is about 24 hours. With the near-synchronous replication, recovery point objectives tend to be minutes or a few seconds if the bandwidth is adequate. That's one of the major benefits of Zerto: there's no need to run incremental backups every xx minutes. And the recovery time is fairly quick as well, like a shutdown and reboot of a VM. Eventually, the VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) allow to grouping of one or more VMs into a single entity, ensuring every point in time inserted into Zerto’s journal (a checkpoint) is from the same point in time for all components within the protection group. This allows easy recovery of an entire application and its dependencies to a consistent point in time. Zerto is also a very easy product to use."

"The replication being log-based is awesome."

"The ability to perform DR testing to ensure data integrity is critical."

"The Move feature is the most valuable feature because it allows us to move the VM from our old environment to our new environment with minimal disruption."

"The pricing and licensing are excellent. It's very straightforward."

"Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed."

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"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up our SQL server."

"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup process for the solution is easy."

"It is very easy to use and the interaction with various systems is very handy."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."

"I have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."

"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."

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Cons

"HPE Zerto Software could be improved by including everything in the same package. Currently, I have to administer them separately, which can be more complicated for the infrastructure team."

"If the log was more detailed and more user-friendly, we wouldn't have to make the calls to the support to try and figure out where the problem lies."

"Regarding my experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, I think on the pricing side, I don't generally deal with it, but from what I hear from my finance team, it's somewhat on the higher side. If licensing could be reduced, that would be beneficial."

"Increased granularity in how long to keep the journal would be nice."

"One improvement could be addressing the market segment related to physical servers. I understand this is a limitation of Zerto's technology. Still, from a customer's perspective, I would ask the vendor to find a solution to use Zerto for virtualized physical systems, such as physical servers."

"We've also found that certain situations will not work for us since we haven't finalized the air gap vault in place, and we know that using some simulated ransomware attacks would cause problems, so we wouldn't be able to recover."

"Zerto's analytics could be more detailed. The analytics report seems to be more difficult to read."

"It would be nice if Zerto offered OVFs, which are custom-built VMs that you can install on your virtualized environment. At the moment, I have the Zerto sitting on two custom-built Windows servers, which creates a lot of overhead. I'm waiting for them to create an OVF file, which is a built and hardened version of their Zerto server that I can just install wherever with a couple of mouse clicks."

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"Other tools seem to be easier to use."

"OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup."

"We have so many specific technological cracks in Micro Focus, but we are not getting the features, facilities, or coordination between the global delivery centers and the R&D team that we need to express our ideas."

"Faster VEAgent Restores"

"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."

"We face challenges with its stability."

"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."

"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Zerto is a little bit expensive [for our budget] but as far as the value that it provides, it is completely justified by all of the savings."

"It was pretty appropriate. It was not too cheap, not too expensive. It was just about right."

"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."

"Price-wise, it works fine for me, but my budgetary team is always looking for ways to cut costs, and it seems like they first look at the data center and the IT side to find savings."

"The cost is not dirt cheap but also is not terrible."

"Zerto is not cheap but is an invaluable asset."

"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."

"When they changed their licensing model, pricing might have gotten a little more expensive for some use cases, but it has been pretty straightforward."

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"The licensing cost is too high."

"The license for the solution is very expensive compared to the other products in the market."

"Pricing for Micro Focus Data Protector is reasonable."

"Our licensing is on a capacity basis."

"There is a perpetual license involved in addition to support which needs to be renewed annually."

"Pricing/licensing is Data Protector's single best offering. In its most basic environment, the only license required is for whatever target device is required."

"The pricing is around $3,000 to $5,000. The charge additionally for support and to scale."

"It is more affordable compared to other vendors."

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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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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	92
Large Enterprise	195

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	61

Questions from the Community

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 standpoint, HPE Zerto Software was reasonably priced initially compared to SRM, but now it is almost on par, if not better.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Data Protector?

The solution is expensive as it requires purchasing all features without the option to negotiate based on client numbers, unlike Veeam which offers flexibility in pricing.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Data Protector?

OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup. It lacks functions and facilities compared to Veeam, which offers more user-friendliness for virtual machine backups. Ther...

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What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Data Protector?

We use OpenText Data Protector ( /products/opentext-data-protector-reviews ) for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security.

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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

Micro Focus Data Protector, Data Protector, OmniBack, HPE Data Protector

Overview

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

OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.

OpenText

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