Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Dell Technologies is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 4.4% mindshare in DRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines compete in data protection and disaster recovery for virtual environments. HPE Zerto Software has an upper hand regarding ease of use and value, while Dell RecoverPoint excels in advanced recovery features.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers streamlined management, real-time data integration, and flexible data recovery. Dell RecoverPoint provides comprehensive recovery, point-in-time snapshots, and continuous data protection for complex recovery scenarios.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto's primary areas for growth include enhancing the user interface to reduce learning curves, expanding integrations with other platforms, and offering customizable recovery workflows. Dell RecoverPoint could improve through simplified setup processes, a more intuitive management console, and reduced resource usage during replication tasks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software features a straightforward deployment and strong support, facilitating easy setup and transitions. Dell RecoverPoint, equipped with a robust feature set, may demand more deployment time and expertise. Its customer service, while efficient, could be more intuitive compared to HPE's offering.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software provides competitive setup costs, yielding significant ROI due to its efficiency and rapid implementation. Dell RecoverPoint, with potentially higher upfront costs, justifies the investment through its extensive functionality and tailored solutions, offering strong ROI for complex operations.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. HPE Zerto Software Report (Updated: February 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

345

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 4.4%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 7.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	7.9%
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines	4.4%
Other	87.7%

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Featured Reviews

Alex McIntosh

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Seamless data protection and IP address management streamline server failover

I recommend Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. I work for a financial institution, and it does what we need it to do. I would rate the product eight out of ten. For improvement, I suggest better orchestration management for easier failovers. I would rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.

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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a very simple tool to use and offers flexibility in using the tool for recovery and transitioning from one state to another."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to change IP addresses when failing a server over."

"RecoverPoint replicates workloads fast."

"The most valuable feature is that it is journal-based and you don't have to replicate a lot of data."

"One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability."

"The generalization of the journals allows us to go back in time and choose the snapshot suitable for us. We can grab it as needed."

"Point-in-time recovery and ease of deployment are valuable."

"The speed and the footprint the solution uses regarding storage are great."

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

"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."

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

"Our RTO is quick, and we can recover five to ten terabytes of data within minutes of a failover."

"It's helped reduce downtime in certain situations."

"I like the less than one-minute RPO, the ability to IP customize during failovers, and the cloning feature that I can use to clone VMs over at the target location. As part of the automation failover, if we need to change an IP when it fails over to the other data center, Zerto will handle that; there's no need for manual intervention. As far as the cloning, we use that to do quick testing of a VM in the remote data center for lift-and-shift processors."

"Stable disaster recovery solution with a very simple setup and fast failover."

"Having Zerto in place takes a headache off my plate."

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Cons

"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."

"It would be good to have a critical application on the customer side."

"The solution currently supports only VMware."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

"The solution currently supports only VMware. There is increasing demand for compatibility with other hypervisors, such as Hyper V and KVM Proxmox. Additionally, licensing has become less flexible and more expensive."

"In some cases, the response times could improve, but we haven't had issues with their support."

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"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."

"Now, everything is moving to the cloud and many modern app solutions are based on virtualization and cloud, however, for situations where Unix platforms are used, we'd like them to be able to support that."

"An area for improvement is the support because it gets really expensive. They need to make it a little cheaper. Support also takes time."

"Compared to other products, I would praise the intuitiveness of the product. But I think that can always be improved. The intuitiveness of the graphical user interface, while it is very solid and I don't have issues navigating it. I would say that it can always be improved."

"Long-term retention of files is a function that isn't available yet that I'm looking forward to them providing. The long-term retention is the only other thing that I think needs improvement."

"If I have to reboot a virtual machine host, I have issues with Zerto catching up afterward. That's about the only thing I would say needs improvement. Sometimes, when I have to do maintenance, Zerto takes a little bit to catch up. That's understandable."

"I would like to see Zerto implement a pay-as-you-go model."

"The ease of setup can be improved in the next release of HPE Zerto Software."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive product."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"It initially seemed a little pricey, but in the big picture, you're paying for peace of mind. It could always be cheaper and more competitive, which would make it an easier choice for people, but I can see both ways. They can say this cost is for the value they are providing. If anything happens, they can recover your data very quickly. You won't be losing it, so there is a win. It is a win-win."

"There may be less expensive solutions on the market but with Zerto, you get what you pay for."

"Zerto is priced high."

"Zerto's pricing structure could be more competitive to better suit the needs of a wider range of businesses."

"At the time I had purchased the product, the pricing was fair and reasonable. Over the years, costs have certainly gone up, which makes it hard for healthcare companies to use the solution."

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

"It is very expensive. It is overpriced. No doubt. What held us up for many years from committing to buying it was always the cost. That's also why we only have 10 licenses."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	87
Large Enterprise	197

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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What is your primary use case for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

I was actually just having a quick look to compare some solutions, but we are going to stick with what we currently have, which is Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines ( /products/dell-recoverpoi...

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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 perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

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

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