HPE Zerto Software vs Nutanix Move comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nutanix are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while Nutanix is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 4.9% mindshare in CM, compared to Nutanix’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and Nutanix Move are both prominent in the data protection and workload migration space. Nutanix Move seems to hold an advantage in specific categories due to its ease of deployment and cost-effectiveness, as indicated in various feature sets and pricing structures.

Features: HPE Zerto Software stands out with robust disaster recovery capabilities highlighted by its continuous data protection, near-zero recovery time objectives (RTO), and hypervisor-based replication. The solution supports multi-cloud environments, providing seamless migration between on-premises and cloud systems. Nutanix Move features its ability to automate migration processes with minimal impact on live environments, retaining settings like IP and MAC addresses while flawlessly adapting workloads across platforms such as VMware and Hyper-V.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could enhance its analytics engine to reduce reliance on external tools and address potential service reductions, especially for Hyper-V users. Its complex deployment process might benefit from a streamlined approach. Nutanix Move, while effective for new migrations, could expand its support to older systems and workloads requiring tailored migration paths, enhancing compatibility with outdated software versions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nutanix Move excels with its straightforward set-up, allowing for automatic and seamless transitions between platforms with robust support to guide users. In contrast, HPE Zerto Software requires a more intricate deployment method, necessitating detailed guidance to ensure successful implementation.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software's initial investment is generally higher yet offers considerable ROI through its advanced data protection features like near-zero RTOs. Nutanix Move provides a more cost-effective solution initially, with lower setup expenses promising a quicker ROI through its streamlined migration processes, offering significant affordability in transitioning infrastructures.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Migration

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

355

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (1st)

Nutanix Move

Ranking in Cloud Migration

10th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 4.9%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Move is 2.8%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	4.9%
Nutanix Move	2.8%
Other	92.3%

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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.

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Atif Najam

Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Enables to migrate the infrastructure and change the hypervisor without any downtime

We can migrate our infrastructure while it is running in production. We can change the hypervisor without any downtime. The product is fully automated. We select a machine we want to move, and the system copies everything in the background and informs us when the machine is ready to move. When we click to move, the product will shut down the machine on vCenter and turn it on on Nutanix. It is 100% automated. The process can be done in the background without any downtime. The time it takes the machine to boot is the only downtime we experience. Generally, a 1TB machine might take two to three hours to move from one hypervisor to another. With Nutanix Move, we can move the machine within seconds. Everything is done while the service is available.

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Pros

"Amazing ROI considering I don't have to buy a second set of hardware for my DR site."

"The second feature that sold us was the sub-second RPO. One of the things that made Zerto's product stand out from some of the more traditional solutions four years ago was its ability to maintain sub-second RPO over a group of machines, and that group of machines could be spread over multiple storage hardware."

"The dashboarding shows recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives, indicating seconds or minutes remaining, which is useful."

"ZVR lets us protect our VMs without any impact upon users and greatly improved our RPOs from hours to seconds."

"It is convenient to use because the API allows for seamless integration when performing our day-to-day operations."

"We have kept renewing Zerto because it seems to get better."

"The single pane of glass in Zerto Virtual Replication and ease of use is what makes Zerto different from other replication products that I have used in the past."

"I prefer Zerto because it's a little more automated. VMware has more requirements... It's a little more click-and-go versus click-and-monitor..."

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"The solution is stable."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is its simplicity."

"The easy migration is the most valuable feature."

"It is easy to set up the solution."

"Nutanix Move has changed helped in making the painful process of migrating from one hypervisor to another better."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The automated migration feature is the most effective. It automates the whole process, like installation from VMware to Nutanix AHV cluster. It retains the IP and MAC addresses of VMs and cleans up migrated VMs by removing VMware tools from the source. The automated migration is seamless - when we do the cutover, Nutanix Move powers off the source VM and automatically powers on the virtual machine on the Nutanix cluster."

"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Move is how simple it is and the benefit of what it does."

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Cons

"We would love to have a native management pack for vROps and to be able to view a dashboard and metrics for BPGs within vROps. We would like to have a single view for monitoring and provide customers with dashboards so they can see their own BPGs."

"I hope that in the future the product will offer integrated encryption functionalities, so that the VPN setup between protected and protection site can become optional."

"Zerto should continue adding new features. When I used it at the other bank, it wasn't good with replicating VDIs and automation."

"In future releases, doing backups of the environment we need to be able to do hot backups of the database."

"In general, the solution is pretty good, but because it is geared toward simplicity, sometimes, when things go wrong, the answer is not very detailed so that things can be solved quickly. If things do go wrong, it does require a little bit deeper troubleshooting to resolve the issues. That's the only area where improvement could occur. There should be a little bit more details about if things go wrong, how to remedy them."

"I would like to have automated load balancing of the ZVM's at the target site."

"Zerto's effect on our RPO can be improved."

"The time between releases is too long. Zerto doesn't seem to really keep up with the products with which they need to be compatible. For instance, the 9.5 updates 3 took about 90 days to come out after the latest version of vCenter 7.0 update 3 was released."

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"I think Nutanix Move could be improved by adding a way to retry failed migrations. Sometimes when seeding fails, there's no way to redo it without recreating the whole migration plan. I'd like a button to restart the process without creating a migration plan."

"Nutanix Move could be made more scalable, so you could do more instead of taking five or ten VMs at a time."

"We can migrate from Hyper-V to Acropolis, but we can't move from Acropolis back to Hyper-V. However, we do not have customers who want to, but if we could reassure them that it was possible it would be better. Having our Hyper-V customers have a two-way option that may help. A customer would like to hear that if they do switch they can switch back. I know it's a limitation on Hyper-V but not a limitation on VMware."

"We can migrate from Hyper-V to Acropolis, but we can't move from Acropolis back to Hyper-V."

"They should have some tools to migrate the workload from another Nutanix platform."

"We'd like Nutanix to be more flexible in the future."

"When you have regular questions, like how do I do something in the tool or when you want to know when can I do anything in the product, the solution's support team can take around three to four days to give you an answer, or they may even sometimes take more time."

"The most valuable feature is the automation. The solution will clone the data that you want to migrate, shut down the virtual machine, disconnect it from the network and start the clone virtual machine inside the solution's platform."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."

"Its price is fair. It is very cost-effective compared to the cost of the labor for your workers and associates."

"We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto."

"It works very well as a backup and recovery solution, with frequent recovery points. It's very good. But it's too pricey for us to use it as a backup solution for all of our clients. Not every customer needs recovery points every five seconds."

"I think the cost is reasonable for VM licensing. It's not outside the scope of an enterprise product."

"It is not the cheapest product; it is not the most expensive product, but it works. It is a mid-range product, and it is justified in terms of being pretty quick and easy."

"Get the Enterprise Cloud license because it's the most flexible, and the pricing should come in around $1,000 per VM."

"Everyone knows Zerto is a little on the expensive side, but what else is there on the market that does the same thing?"

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"The solution is open-source."

"The tool is bundled as part of the Nutanix license."

"It is a free tool."

"The product is available for free."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Healthcare Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	92
Midsize Enterprise	94
Large Enterprise	202

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

In terms of pricing, I'll not say HPE Zerto Software is very cheap, and I'll not say that whatever features it provides, it's very highly priced. However, there could be room for negotiation on the...

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

The documentation is very good. The GUI is kind of an old one. More development on the GUI can be useful for the users.The areas that have room for improvement include the GUI. The other thing is t...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Move?

The tool is bundled as part of the Nutanix license.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Move?

I think Nutanix Move could be improved by adding a way to retry failed migrations. Sometimes when seeding fails, there's no way to redo it without recreating the whole migration plan. I'd like a bu...

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What is your primary use case for Nutanix Move?

I use the solution to migrate workloads between different places like Nutanix, Azure, and AWS.

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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

Nutanix Move simplifies automated and seamless migrations without downtime, integrating smoothly with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. It automates essential tasks, retaining network configurations, and offers flexibility for manual interventions, ensuring minimal business disruption during migration.

Nutanix Move is a key tool for organizations migrating virtual machines to Acropolis Hypervisor from VMware or Hyper-V. Users benefit from its ability to transfer between hypervisors and its support for physical to virtual conversions. The migration process is fully automated, efficient, and maintains IP and MAC addresses while allowing manual adjustments. Though user-friendly and cost-effective, some enhancements, such as reverse migration support from Acropolis to Hyper-V and improved scalability for multiple simultaneous VM migrations, are needed. Users also express a need for migration tools for other Nutanix platforms and an option for direct migration from vSphere without vCenter dependency. Despite these areas for improvement, Nutanix Move efficiently supports significant data migrations and adapts to different infrastructures across availability zones.

What are Nutanix Move's key features?

Automated Migration: Streamlines migration with no downtime, retaining IP and MAC addresses.
Seamless Integration: Works well with VMware and Hyper-V for smooth transitions.
Flexible Setup: User-friendly setup process, supporting large data migrations.

What benefits should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Favorable pricing for extensive migration needs.
Minimal Disruption: Ensures business continuity with live migration capabilities.
Enhanced Flexibility: Supports a wide range of infrastructure transitions and availability zones.

Organizations in diverse industries use Nutanix Move to transfer virtual machines across different platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, and Acropolis Hypervisor. It supports varied setups including Nutanix, Azure, and AWS, meeting the needs for flexibility and efficient data handling in complex infrastructures.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

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

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