Mark M.
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Mark M.
Manager, Infrastructure
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Zerto delivers enterprise-class Disaster Recovery in an easy to use package"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

We leverage Zerto for Disaster Recovery failover between our primary data center and our secondary data center. We put all of our critical, Tier 1 applications into Zerto replication groups so we can fail them over in case of an emergency. We have also used Zerto for data center consolidations and migrations since it is a great tool to be used for that type of project as well. We like the flexibility that Zerto provides us and its overall ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

The price-point for Zerto could be a little more affordable. The only other quibble I have with the product is that it is hard to dial-in the email alerting at a granular level - we often get too many email alerts and that can be annoying. Other than that I have no other issues with Zerto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Srichand J.
Administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Zerto is a wonderful product for Site to Site server migrations and enterprise disaster recovery."
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

Zerto is very easy to get setup and replicating the VM's between the sites. We have used it successfully for our Datacenter Migration Project where we have Migrated 800+ server from VMware and Hyper-V Platforms to our new datacenter on the VMware Platform. It is highly customizable so you can change IP addresses, domains, etc via scripts when you bring servers up in the new site. we have not had any major issues with the software either during the Migration process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

The product is rather expensive, but is comparable to other enterprise-class disaster recovery and data protection solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TG
Tinku G.
Technical Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to manage and setup replication, can be made flexible?"
4/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

1. Zerto provides an easy way to set up disaster recovery for multiple virtual machines.

2. We are using Zerto email alerts to proactively monitor and manage the zerto replication that helps us to resolve the replication related issue before they actually take place.

3. Upgrading ZVM and Z-VRAs from one version to another is quite easy.

4. Most importantly, Zerto support is very humble and helpful, really have a very good experience all the time talking to them on calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

1. Zerto doesn't provide much flexibility in order to automatically sustain the replications in optimal state..If VPG goes down if any of it's recovery host is in maintenance mode or not responding. It should have in such a way that it can provide flexibility to automatically point the recovery to other hosts in case of such issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RJ
Richard J.
Principal Technical Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Simply - It Does What the Vendor Claims"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

In 30+ years in IT the number of products that I - or any of us - come across that work as advertised out of the box are extremely limited. Zerto is the exception. There is real genius in the application architecture, the execution, even the documentation. The agentless nature of hypervisor-based replication means real scalability is possible. The use of a journal that allows point-in-time recovery, not just for DR but for operational recovery at the file, volume, VM or entire application means that your DR copy is also your offsite backup copy, and the ability to migrate that to lower cost storage after a user-defined time means you can effectively replace your entire backup infrastructure with something that can recover not from last night or last week, but seconds ago is unequalled. And absolutely nop snapshots or proxies or other BS. Zerto is for real Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

The hardest part of Zerto is getting people 1) to believe that it can do easily what other backup and DR solutions do with great difficulty 2) to understand how it works.

Sure it's software, and it has bugs, and issues, and missing features, but the core Zerto replication is as solid and reliable as any software I've ever used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My Usage of Zerto"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

I love the replication feature that is upto the minute on RTO. The change rate is near exact to current running system, so when you replicate from production to the copy, there is no drop off in data that is replicated to the secondary site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

The only thing I'm not a fan of when upgrading the operating system, so that when I spin up a newer OS, the migration of the configuration and information from the old to the new isn't seamless. I ran into some problem during my migration. Though I have to give prop to Zerto support, who was able to help me get up and running quickly, on my new system, as though it was running like before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Andrew S.
Project Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Brilliant Seamless Product"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

Very informative training. Certification offered, easy to use console and great service to offer as a hosted managed service. We use Zerto for a lot of our customers and requires very little interaction from the customer to setup this service for disaster recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

I really enjoy the product. Solution for Physical VM replication would be a great as a sort of P2V solution from physical to Virtual. We still have some customers on physical servers and we're unable to offer them a suitable disaster recover solution due to them being reluctant to remove from a physical solution.

I think once Physical to Virtual server replication is brought out a lot more of our customers would be able to come onboard as physical servers are still required for some high resource intensive servers and security requirements for some customers to have local copies of data onsite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Rodney B.
Server Administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy and Simple Disaster Recovery"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

Zerto is a product that is easy to install and place into production. The management interface installs on a VM and from there the agent is pushed down to each host. Once the software is installed at each location, the locations are linked to each other. The creation of Virtual Protection Groups (VPG's), is accomplished through a few mouse clicks, the replication begins. Depending on the size of the environment, a fully recoverable environment could be available in about an hour.

Zerto makes BCDR testing about as simple as it can be. With the system in "test" the VPG groups can be brought up in an isolated "bubble" that can be tested outside of the regular production network. Once completed, the entire environment is spun back down automatically and a printable report is generated on the success of the test. This can be turned in as proof of DR testing and completeness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

I really do not have anything I dislike about the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Rodney Wayne W.
Sr. Systems Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Valuable Migration Tool"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

The versatility of Zerto, from Testing to Failover to Migration (even between 'clouds') is the real secret of Zerto's success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

As with any product, there are occasionally bugs that affect the few. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alan B.
AB
Alan B.
Head of IT
Law Practice
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Use Zerto for DR Pain Relief"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

The simplicity of Zerto is amazing given the complexity that lies below it's easy to use interface and simple install and setup process. The flexibility of the product to deliver both a DR and a replication solution to either On Prem or to a variety of Cloud destinations is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

There's really nothing not to like about Zerto, I know that doesn't sound true but give it a go and say I'm wrong! There are very few software packages out there that do so much for so little effort and sit and run without constant maintenance. The only big problem I have with Zerto is the limitation to 25 VM licenses and I'd love Zerto to give a bit more granularity here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Aaron S.
Systems Engineer II
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great replication tool, easy & reliable"
5/5
What do you like best about Zerto?

Zerto is a great product that just works, very little caring & feeding. We have used it for several years to be our main application to keep our most critical systems up to the second. We have loved how easy it is to setup, use, & make the little changes as needed. And they top it off with great support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zerto?

The only issue we have had is the very few "zombie" disks that have come up. But they provide a great tool to find them & remove them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.