We performed a comparison between Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is a good backup interconversion solution because all the masters and the targets backups are on the same system. It is easy to administrate for a single point of access for clients."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"The tool is easy to use, stable, and performs well, but it depends on the environment where it is deployed. It is leaning more toward huge enterprises where it is positioned. It needs to be as easy as others but addresses more complex requirements."
"The reporting is very good compared to other tools."
"Compared to a homemade installation, this appliance is very stable."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"The documentation is okay. You are able to follow it and it is helpful."
"The most valuable features are the single pane of glass and the reduction in time it takes for our systems engineering team to manage the platform."
"We are doing continuous data protection. It works flawlessly. Our recovery points are measured in seconds. We have all these "baby snapshots" throughout the course of the day, so we can roll a VM back to any point in time, spin it up, and away we go. We're actively using that. It works great."
"The most valuable tool is the dashboard, which allows us to immediately check the DLP status, replication data, and all other data needed to have cleaner and immediate control of the situation."
"The recovery was pretty seamless. It took about a minute for it to kick over when we did our testing. So, it wasn't a long downtime."
"It is convenient to use because the API allows for seamless integration when performing our day-to-day operations."
"Most of the time, this is at least a two person job. We used to have three people doing it. Previously, when we had a disaster recovery drill, the way it worked was 12 of us would show up in the office on a Friday night and work overnight from 12:00 AM on Friday night to 8:00 AM in the morning on Saturday. Then, three of us would be working for four hours out of those eight or nine hours just getting applications up and running in Arizona. Now, for the disaster recovery drill, I just stay onsite to help and assist anybody else as they need during that time frame and my work is done in about a 30-minute time frame. This is compared to the four or five hours it used to take for the three of us to do it."
"The replication works really well. We perform multiple tests a month and annual tests for our tier-one and many of our tier-two apps... Migrating systems as a failover rollback or a system move are two of the functions that I like the most."
"It is way faster than just manually moving VMDKs, etc. It saves hours of time and a significant amount of money."
"It's hard to get to the backups. There are too many tabs."
"The challenge arose due to a space issue. The issue was related to disk breaks, especially when power cuts occurred. One of the disks would break, leading to a loss of functionality."
"The technical support services could be better."
"They could simplify the process of installing, and provide more space for data during the process."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance can improve by having a more direct connection to the cloud. It should have the technology to be able to directly communicate with the cloud."
"I would like Zerto to add support for VMware's lifecycle manager."
"If we have multiple VMs in a VPG (Virtual Protected Group) and one VM is hung for DR, it holds things up. The only alternative is to create multiple VPGs. It would be nice to have one VPG where, if one VM is failing, it does not impact the overall process."
"Their offsite backup is a bit clunky, but it will probably improve."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvement on the Zerto Virtual Replication appliances, so that they are a little bit more streamlined as opposed to now where they just span multiple ZVR appliances like there were gremlins... as this thing grows it just spawns unlimited numbers of additional ZVR appliances and you end up with a bunch so that you can't really tell which is which."
"The improvement that I would like to see is a little bit easier product knowledge, things like that. It's getting a lot better than it was before because it's not as old of a product as Cisco, but if you look for something like Cisco routing and networking, you'll find millions of articles out there and it's everywhere."
"Zerto's effect on our RPO can be improved."
"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."
Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our Veritas NetBackup Appliance vs. Zerto report.
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