Zerto is used to provide real-time replication for the important virtual machines that my organisation uses to our Disaster Recovery (DR) site to ensure business continuity.
Network Administrator at a financial services firm
Can quickly recover from any disaster with very little downtime utilizing a user interface that requires minimal experience
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to test which virtual machines can be failed over to our DR site without interruption of our production environment."
- "The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The ability to test which virtual machines can be failed over to our DR site without interruption of our production environment. Being able to do file level recovery in case you delete a file accidentally or want to recover from a ransomware attack.
How has it helped my organization?
It allows for my organization to quickly recover from any disaster with very little downtime utilizing a user interface that requires minimal knowledge or experience.
What needs improvement?
I cannot think of any new features that should be added at the moment. With time, I should be able to make suggestions.
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For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
None whatsoever.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse. Zerto gives you a bandwidth calculation estimate, but in my case that still was not enough to handle the volume of traffic being generated by our virtual machines.
How are customer service and support?
10 out of 10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used to use Veeam Backup and Replication. We encountered some loss of connectivity with Veeam when we replicated some of our larger virtual machines that we hosted on our older virtual machine hosts.
How was the initial setup?
It was straightforward and easy to setup. Once the software was executed, all that was needed was the basic environment details as well as the hypervisor information.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented through a vendor team. They were very experienced and were able to provide detailed answers to all of our questions.
What was our ROI?
We expect to achieve a ROI within four years of the purchase. However, the ability to almost instantly failover and the fast file level ransomware recovering times give you that peace of mind that allows for low stress levels.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The setup will require that you have a domain controller and DNS at your DR site as well as a second hypervisor product (VMware vCenter Server/Microsoft Hyper-V) there as well. So, the additional software licensing will have to be factored into your operational budget.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
No, we did not. When we did our research, Zerto was the name that always came out as the market leader.
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Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Easy to configure replication groups and multiple options for recovery of virtual machines
What is most valuable?
Simple, fast install
Easy upgrades
Grouping virtual machines by application, not LUN
Automatic IP address change
How has it helped my organization?
Simplified the way annual DR tests are performed as well as being a tool for migrating workloads between data centers as needed.
What needs improvement?
Would like to see additional reports after recovery operations with details on recovery of each VM
For how long have I used the solution?
2 years
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
Sales and customer service are responsive to questions.
Technical Support:Technical Support is very helpful. They reply to phone or email quickly.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Used VMware SRM previously
How was the initial setup?
Straightforward, simple deployment
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Data Center Expert with 501-1,000 employees
Zerto just works
What is most valuable?
Near-zero RPO, granular selection of individual VMs and the very simple setup and management.
How has it helped my organization?
Reduced DR strategy documentation and procedures.
What needs improvement?
Physical servers would be a nice enhancement. I would also like to see the backup portion really enhanced further.
For how long have I used the solution?
3 Years +
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Deployment is so easy, so no.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
No
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
No
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
Excellent
Technical Support:Excellent
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Yes. The product(s) I was using for replication were not as efficient and could not provide nearly as low of an RPO as Zerto.
How was the initial setup?
Easy
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Veeam replication, SRM and array-based.
What other advice do I have?
I work for a data center solutions company and DR was always the toughest challenge. I have recommended numerous solutions to my customers over the years but when we stumbled upon Zerto 4 years ago it has become our standard recommendation in these projects. It's easy to setup and manage but best of all...it just works as expected.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: I work for a Zerto partner but have used this product in numerous projects and have much direct experience with it.
Pr. UNIX Sys Admin at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We're able to replicate entire systems between data centers instead of setting up replication within the applications.
What is most valuable?
Replication for disaster recovery between data centers is valuable.
How has it helped my organization?
Zerto allows us to replicate entire systems between data centers instead of setting up replication within the applications, which sometimes is non-existent.
What needs improvement?
The backup capabilities require too much disk space and I would like to see better compression. or deduplication built in to reduce the amount of WAN traffic. It would also be nice to have it be able to monitor a VM to let you know how much bandwidth a particular VM would require to replicate.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using it for nine months.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
We have had no issues with the deployment.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There have been no performance issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is all about bandwidth, so the only issue we had was trying to guess how much bandwidth we would need.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support is good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used point solutions for our disaster recovery needs and we were very selective about the applications we would setup with disaster recovery due to costs.
How was the initial setup?
The Zerto setup is very easy. The difficult task is setting up any processes that need to be run after a failover.
What about the implementation team?
This was all setup in house.
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Cloud Architect with 501-1,000 employees
With it, we're able to provide our customers with disaster recovery options that work, but when we scaled, we had slight issues protecting SQL servers.
What is most valuable?
Being able to provide customers with DR options that work.
How has it helped my organization?
We are a Cloud Services provider that owns and operates data centers coast-to-coast.
For how long have I used the solution?
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
no
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
no
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Only slightly when using it to protect 37 SQL servers. The high IOPS have been dealt with and we have solved that issue.
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
excellent
Technical Support:excellent
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used many other solutions, but this is the one we reached for first.
How was the initial setup?
Yes - super simple.
What other advice do I have?
When you can't afford to risk your data, Zerto is the solution.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: www.tierpoint.com offers Zerto to fullfil a feature in our product profile.
IT system administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
File-level restoring to specific points in time has been very helpful
Pros and Cons
- "Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs."
- "The backup functions are in need of improvement."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution for disaster recovery.
How has it helped my organization?
Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs. These are nice to have tools.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the Restore file, where you can go back in time on a file-level. This is very helpful.
What needs improvement?
The backup functions are in need of improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for one year.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Independant IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Truly simple data replication.
Valuable Features
ZVR is very simple to setup and administer. Out of the box it just works and allows me to set my replication source and destinations and nearly forget it. Our RPOs are generally 5 seconds on a replicated base of 4Tb so we have only a very small data loss in the event of needing to recover.
Now that v4.5 has been released, I have the ability to recover individual files in the event of accidental deletion or even encryption by Ransomware. This ensures that data is easily recovered no matter when it is deleted, ensuring that files that have been created and deleted in the same day and prior to backup are recoverable easily.
And, perhaps more importantly, out of the box ZVR allows me to test the failover whenever I want to verify that my systems can come up as expected.
Use of Solution
I have been a user of Zerto Virtual Replication for 1 year.
Customer Service and Technical Support
Technical Support at ZVR is very good. Any calls are promptly responded to and dealt with to resolution. The support personnel are very knowledgeable on the product.
Initial Setup
Initial setup is very straight forward. You simply create a group and populate your machines into the group, select a destination and voila ZVR does the rest.
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Senior System Engineer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees
It has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly
What is our primary use case?
Replication of business critical VMware VMs over WAN to the remote disaster recovery datacenter.
What is most valuable?
The benefits are obvious: The simplicity of the setup and the speed of replication.
The speed of WAN replication is great. It is faster compared to RecoverPoint and 20 VMs replicating over a 20Mbps VPN, which has a RPO less than one minute. Of course, your mileage will vary.
How has it helped my organization?
Compared to the previous DR replication solution, Zerto has decreased both RPO and RTO significantly.
What needs improvement?
In Zerto for vSphere, it is a pain to remove the virtual appliance if for some reason you lose the host.
Make sure to understand how Zerto supports Microsoft/SQL Clusters - more of an advice to the companies thinking of implementing Zerto.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
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Good summary. I totally agree that Zerto is very simple to install and maintain. Creating groups of protected VMs is easy with the newly enhanced work flow. Anyone looking to replicate VMware or Hyper-V machines should give Zerto a good look.