HPE Zerto Software vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NovaStor are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0, while NovaStor is ranked #33 with an average rating of 9.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 2.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to NovaStor’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NovaStor users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

Read 346 HPE Zerto Software reviews

15,919 Views
9,074 Comparison Views

98% willing to recommend

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Read 3 NovaStor NovaBACKUP reviews

1,165 Views
920 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

HPE Zerto Software

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and NovaStor NovaBACKUP are aimed at data protection and recovery. HPE Zerto Software appears stronger for enterprises with its scalability and advanced disaster recovery capabilities, while NovaStor NovaBACKUP focuses on ease of use and cost-effectiveness, better for small and medium-sized businesses.

Features: HPE Zerto Software includes advanced disaster recovery, seamless integration, and scalability designed for large enterprises managing extensive data. NovaStor NovaBACKUP delivers straightforward backup solutions, simple management, and affordability, appealing to smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software provides a comprehensive deployment model for complex environments with strong support for enterprise clients. NovaStor NovaBACKUP offers simpler deployment with accessible customer service for businesses with limited IT resources.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software's setup costs reflect its enterprise focus with potential high ROI through robust features and scalability. NovaStor NovaBACKUP offers a lower initial cost with satisfactory ROI for small business needs, appealing to cost-conscious clients.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP Report (Updated: March 2026).

Buyer's Guide

HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP

March 2026

Download the complete report

Helped 884,933 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

346

Ranking in other categories

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

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

33rd

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

17th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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 NovaStor NovaBACKUP is 0.6%, up from 0.2% 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%
NovaStor NovaBACKUP	0.6%
Other	97.4%

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

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.

Read full review

Rainer Kummerfeldt

IT-Teamleader at Bechtle

Easy to work and offers features for tape backups, disk backups, and whatever you want

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is still working on new features because they listen to the customers and integrate their needs into new versions. You can see they make progress with each new version. They are much faster than IBM, where you sometimes have to wait years for new features. It is very quick and fast. NovaStor have big competitors like Veeam, which is very fast and aggressive. It's good, but it depends on the price. I think NovaStor might be cheaper. They have a direct connection to their developers and sales teams, which makes getting answers very fast. Veeam has a lot of features, like a special reporting tool. However, I've heard from some customers that Veeam wasn't always the right decision because it couldn't work with their environment. But Veeam has aggressive marketing, which is why they are probably in first place at the moment, besides Commvault. IBM has lost its competitive edge and is trying to catch up, but it might be too late.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ease of use is one of the most valuable features when it comes to making changes and configuring. It's very easy to set up and configure. It's a great product."

"My impressions of HPE Zerto Software's Near-Sync Replication are that it minimizes the loss of data."

"Zerto's ability to test failovers with a record of how long it takes to fail the motor is beneficial, as it allows us to know the timing in the event we have to do it live."

"In situations of failback or moving workloads, it saves us hours. If I were to have to move a four or five terabyte machine using something like VMware's virtual copy it has to install on the machine and copy the data over. Then it has to shut the machine down and do a final copy, which means there's a lot of downtime while it's doing the final copy."

"The most valuable feature of HPE Zerto Software was its failover capabilities."

"The speed of recovery with Zerto versus the speed of recovery with other disaster recovery solutions is night and day. We use Veeam for backups and the amount of time that it takes to recover is so much quicker mounting with Zerto. That's why we extended the journal so that we could capture a few more days and make it easier for us to recover files."

"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."

"The continuation to the public cloud has been especially helpful where I can pretty much work with things like hosts and clusters as part of the data center."

More HPE Zerto Software pros

"It is a very good and easy-to-use tool for non-technical people."

"NovaBACKUP protects your entire system with a single solution."

"It's the easiest way to configure it."

Cons

"There needs to be more flexibility in the licensing."

"If there's any way to validate that data on the recovery site without having to manually go in and do failover testing and try to validate, that would be a feature that would be really nice."

"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."

"Patch management can be better. Although we are doing patch management on the Zerto platform in an automated manner, it can be improved by leveraging some AI-assisted technology. With the help of AI, things are going to be faster in terms of patching the solution."

"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."

"However, sometimes it feels like the QA is not great, as the previous two updates have been bug fixes."

"When setting up Zerto, you have to set up VRAs. I would like to see those not be needed as much. They're a little cumbersome and take up a lot of VM counts."

"The only negative I would give is that with the latest version of the appliance, setting up authentication was a bit of a challenge, but that is just a matter of using Keycloak and how things have changed."

More HPE Zerto Software cons

"The price of NovaStor NovaBACKUP is an area that can be considered as a weakness or drawback, where improvements are required."

"The room for improvement lies in the compatibility of NovaBACKUP with older operating systems."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is pretty competitive to that of other options out there. When we shopped around, it was in line with the price of other solutions."

"I ballpark Zerto's pricing at about $1,000 per VM, which I find fair for what it does, but the cost of entry was tough initially due to the minimum number needed to start. I really needed to prove to the business that it was worth the investment."

"We believe the pricing, setup costs, and licensing are easy to understand. The pricing seems very reasonable."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

"It's very equitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it. It's something that we utilize for the licenses per core as far as what we're backing up. Therefore, it's very cost-efficient as far as the licensing goes. For the amount of stuff that we're backing up and what we're utilizing it for, the licensing is not very expensive at all."

"Zerto is definitely more costly compared to its competitors, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. It may not be suitable for small and medium-sized industries."

"Zerto's pricing is competitive, given the benefits and ease of setting it up. It may seem more expensive upfront, but you're going to save that over the long term by spending less engineering time configuring, reconfiguring, etc."

"Licensing is based on the number of VMs to replicate. The first thing should be to get the number of VMs to replicate based on your business needs."

More HPE Zerto Software pricing and cost advice

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the solution's maintenance and support."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Backup and Recovery solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

884,933 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user159711

Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

Read full review

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

No data available

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...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

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.

See all answers

What needs improvement with NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

The room for improvement lies in the compatibility of NovaBACKUP with older operating systems like Windows XP. Some customers still rely on outdated systems due to specific production requirements....

See all answers

What is your primary use case for NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

It's developed in Hamburg. It's very easy to work with because it has a web interface, and the configuration is straightforward. It has features for tape backups, disk backups, and whatever you wan...

See all answers

What advice do you have for others considering NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

See all answers

Comparisons

Veeam Data Platform vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 12% of the time

VMware Live Recovery vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 5% of the time

Rubrik vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 5% of the time

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 4% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 4% of the time

More HPE Zerto Software Competitors

Veeam Data Platform vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Compared 11% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Compared 7% of the time

Synology DSM vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Compared 6% of the time

N2W vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Compared 4% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Compared 4% of the time

More NovaStor NovaBACKUP Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

HPE Zerto Software

March 2026

Download HPE Zerto Software product report

Buyer's Guide

Backup and Recovery

February 2026

Download NovaStor NovaBACKUP product report

Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

NovaBACKUP

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

NovaBACKUP is a data protection software that enables SMBÂ users to backup and recover mission critical data across a hybrid of physical and virtual machines. NovaBACKUP is designed to work onÂ Microsoft Windows operating systems, offering local and online file backups and disaster recovery image backups.

NovaStor

Sample Customers

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

Ex'pression College, Osborne Wood Products Inc., REIT Technologies

Buyer's Guide

HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP

March 2026

Free Report: HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP and other solutions. Updated: March 2026.

DOWNLOAD NOW

884,933 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our HPE Zerto Software vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP report.

See our list of best Backup and Recovery vendors and best Disaster Recovery (DR) Software vendors.

We monitor all Backup and Recovery reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.