HPE Zerto Software vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service comparison

"There wasn't anything in place that compares to what we're getting from Zerto."

"For us, the most valuable features are the quick upload time and how the sync works... We have VMware SRM and Veeam, and they have been pretty slow and sluggish."

"We've seen a massive benefit from using Zerto in terms of time savings and consistency. You see a consistent outcome every time you do the conversions. We're moving from one platform to another, but the payloads in what we're moving are different. We see consistent delivery."

"HPE Zerto Software has positively impacted our RTOs and RPOs by improving our recovery objectives and ensuring data is always available."

"It has been a phenomenal addition, and proved its worth in the pilot phase, when it saved us from having to rebuild a machine that was included in our pilot trial."

"We own another solution called VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM, we have licenses for our entire environment and we still decided not to use it, that's how big the difference was in the experience that Zerto provides."

"The most valuable feature for me is the replication. If I need to fail over sites, it can be done quickly, in less than five minutes."

"Zerto has given us a sense of security; to know that we can move our production data to our DR site in minutes lets me sleep much better at night."

"Nutanix did a good job making that very simple."

"The solution is stable."

"One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization, I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied."

"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click."

"The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use."

"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."

"We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."

"It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites."

"I would like to see different reporting options than what is currently available. I would like to be able to grab different data points that do not currently exist in the reporting system."

"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."

"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."

"I would like to see different reporting options than what is currently available."

"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."

"The only thing I really don't like about Zerto is that the ZVM has to be a Windows server."

"The main challenge that I face with this solution is the price."

"The onboarding was not very good. It felt like, "Now you have Zerto, good luck. Figure out how to use it.""

"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers."

"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers."

"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."

"The pricing could be better."

"Reporting would be a lot better. They need better reporting on the environment."

"The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better."

"They need better reporting on the environment."

"The solution needs improvement in cost."

"Pricing is kind of expensive, but for what we get, it is probably worth it. I know they just had a huge price increase due to the VMware stuff getting expensive, which added about a thousand dollars a month to our bill."

"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."

"Obviously, it would be nice to have it for free. Nevertheless, a lot of effort has gone into making it a top-notch product. An excellent product with expert support is never going to be cheap. I think it's fairly priced for what it does and the benefit it brings to our business."

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

"The licensing costs are not cheap. It is kind of an expensive product. However, I am a get-what-you-pay-for kind of person. After using this product, I can understand why the licensing costs are high."

"We paid a big investment upfront with renewal fees each year."

"Zerto is slightly expensive, but we do see the value in it."

"Zerto does a per-workload licensing model, per-server. It is simple and straightforward, but it is not super flexible. It is kind of a one size fits all. They charge the same price for those workloads. I feel like they could have some flexible licensing option possibly based on criticality, just so we could protect less important work. I would love to protect every workload in my environment with Zerto, whether I really need it or not, but the cost is such that I really have to justify that protection. So, if we had some more flexibility, e.g., you could protect servers with a two-, three-, or four-hour RPO at a certain price point versus mission-critical every five minutes, then I would be interested in that."

"Besides the license, there are additional costs with the network connection. The customer may want a direct connection between the two data centers and that has an extra cost."

"It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."

"I always want it to be cheaper."

"One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."