HPE Zerto Software vs OpenText Data Protector comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and OpenText are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #22 with an average rating of 10.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to OpenText’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

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98% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

OpenText Data Protector and HPE Zerto Software both compete in the data protection and recovery category. HPE Zerto Software appears to have the upper hand due to its superior replication capabilities and better customer satisfaction in deployment flexibility and support responsiveness.

Features: OpenText Data Protector is noted for its robust integration capabilities, especially with SAP, Oracle, and StoreOnce, along with customization through script integration. It is beneficial for on-premises deployment due to its traditional infrastructure reliance and flexible licensing options. HPE Zerto Software stands out with its near-synchronous replication offering near-zero RPOs, quick disaster recovery, and orchestration capabilities in multi-cloud architectures. Its replication and data protection features are highly praised, especially in diverse infrastructure setups supporting hybrid environments.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Data Protector can improve its GUI to be more modern and user-friendly and enhance its cloud support and virtual environment integration. Users also find its complex licensing structure a point of frustration. HPE Zerto Software needs better Hyper-V compatibility and more intuitive documentation and training resources. Enhancements in its user interface and alerting capabilities, as well as pricing adjustments, could increase appeal to smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Data Protector primarily relies on traditional infrastructure and is mostly used on-premises, with customer service described as inconsistent. Conversely, HPE Zerto Software is noted for flexible deployments across hybrid, cloud, and on-premises environments. It receives high marks for customer service and technical support efficiency and responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Data Protector is considered expensive but offers flexible licensing for specific needs, though it may not suit smaller enterprises well due to high costs for advanced features. HPE Zerto Software, with premium pricing, justifies its cost through its extensive features in disaster recovery and data protection, showing a favorable ROI for companies requiring reliable, fast recovery solutions across complex infrastructures.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

357

Ranking in other categories

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

OpenText Data Protector

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

22nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 1.9%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	1.9%
OpenText Data Protector	1.0%
Other	97.1%

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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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Ahmad-Hassan

Project Manager And Technical Consultant at EEMC

Provides effective backup for physical servers and needs improvements for cloud compatibility

We use OpenText Data Protector for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security OpenText Data Protector is good for physical backup, specifically for physical servers. It is effective for direct backups to EMC library or storage without using a repository. However,…

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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

"Zerto's replication is superior to anyone else's out there; it's faster, simpler, and effective, and I don't think I could get as low an RTO and RPO with any other solution."

"Previously, when we did disaster recovery it would take us easily a day or two to restore all of our servers, and we can do the same thing with Zerto in about an hour and a half."

"The real-time capability is what we're looking for."

"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."

"Zerto has helped to reduce downtime with several customers; for example, we had a customer who had many of their VMs encrypted, with about 40 to 60 terabytes worth of data that would have taken days to recover from backup, but we were able to bring them up at the DR site and get them up and running within hours, avoiding millions in potential costs and a major ripple effect in the title industry."

"The ease of failover and test environments has proven invaluable."

"With Zerto CDP, we can pull to our recovery objective in six seconds."

"I love the product and their support."

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"What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc."

"I have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."

"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."

"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."

"The product scales very well and cost-effectively."

"The granularity of brick-level restore functionality is very valuable."

"Customer Service: It's perfect."

"We can quickly restore files that have been deleted or are missing from the system."

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Cons

"The only complaint is that if I remove a host from a cluster, it does not like that. If I move and put the host in maintenance mode to fix it, and vRA is down, Zerto does not like it. Zerto should figure out that this host has an issue and it went down. Zerto should then let me upload that vRA information to another vRA."

"The native Zerto implementation requires quite a big environment. My environment is rather small. I do not have hundreds of virtual machines."

"We had some issues with replication, especially on Linux, but we have already resolved them."

"Sometimes the interface can be a little tricky. If you're using a disaster recovery application, you're in a stressful situation already."

"There are certain things about the user interface that could be a little bit more user-friendly."

"Zerto's analytics could be more detailed. The analytics report seems to be more difficult to read."

"I would like to see some graphical improvements in Zerto's interface. There's an option to export a list of all of our servers, but the information isn't presented the way we want. We want it in a specified sequence broken down by region, etc. We can't manipulate the data when we export it. Maybe they could change it to look more like an Excel sheet, and we can customize the graphics and data. We suggested these improvements to Zerto through their portal."

"Zerto could improve its pricing and customer care. I've never used customer care, but I talked to someone who had, and they weren't given the information they needed."

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"The user interface as the GUI is out-of-date and should be updated in the next release."

"The interface has been the same for many years and needs to be updated."

"I think the GUI needs a vast overhaul."

"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."

"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."

"We could use the ability to do snapshots for mass storage systems."

"The product can be developed by including functionalities like DR, CDP, and SureBackup, which are currently unavailable in the solution."

"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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's very reasonably priced. It's a little more than $3,000 annually. That works out to about $20 per server per month."

"I am not very involved with the pricing, but from my understanding, it is fairly expensive for us. This is why we limit its use to our tier-one customers. We have other disaster recovery solutions for our other customers due to the cost."

"From a pricing standpoint, there is value in it without question. However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do."

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

"Zerto is like a Ferrari. It's very fast but not the cheapest solution. You're paying a high price for quality and the assurance that you will have the environment up and steady."

"Pricing is adequate at the standard of the product, but there could be "always" some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model."

"The pricing is straightforward."

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"The licensing structure provides cost savings to business."

"The solution requires paying for a license."

"Pricing for Micro Focus Data Protector is reasonable."

"In Data Protector, if you need extra features, you need to buy the agents for these features. Some of the features are Terabytes, some of them are agents. There's some complexity in the pricing and licensing."

"Our licensing is on a capacity basis."

"It is fast, reliable, and its licensing policy is great."

"It is more affordable compared to other vendors."

"The license for the solution is very expensive compared to the other products in the market."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Construction Company

Marketing Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	93
Midsize Enterprise	93
Large Enterprise	204

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	61

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?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good.

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

I believe HPE Zerto Software can be improved by providing more clarity on roadmap features coming.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Data Protector?

The solution is expensive as it requires purchasing all features without the option to negotiate based on client numbers, unlike Veeam which offers flexibility in pricing.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Data Protector?

OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup. It lacks functions and facilities compared to Veeam, which offers more user-friendliness for virtual machine backups. Ther...

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What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Data Protector?

We use OpenText Data Protector ( /products/opentext-data-protector-reviews ) for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security.

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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

Micro Focus Data Protector, Data Protector, OmniBack, HPE Data Protector

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

OpenText Data Protector offers robust integration with systems like SQL, Oracle, VMware, and Exchange, boasting strong backup and recovery solutions across multiple environments, despite some areas needing improvement such as user-friendliness and GUI design.

OpenText Data Protector provides comprehensive data protection for servers, Linux systems, and applications including Oracle and Microsoft, alongside centralized storage management. It supports virtual, cloud, and on-premises environments, focusing on Oracle database security, HANA, and NAS appliances via NDMP. Despite its benefits, users encounter frequent errors with virtual environment backups, especially with VMware, and find the GUI outdated. Documentation needs improvement for troubleshooting, and support services face criticism for delayed responses. The licensing structure lacks flexibility, and while it supports efficient deduplication and scheduling, reporting capabilities often lead users to rely on external tools.

What are the key features of OpenText Data Protector?

Seamless Integration: Supports SQL, Oracle, VMware, and Exchange for smooth data management.
Centralized Management: Single interface for managing complex environments with ease.
Disaster Recovery: Offers robust recovery capabilities with automated scheduling.
Diverse OS Support: Accommodates numerous operating systems, enhancing flexibility.
Detailed Reporting: Generates reports for informed decision-making and strategy improvements.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Reliable Backup: Ensures data integrity and availability across platforms.
Flexibility: Adapts to changing environments and diverse IT landscapes.
Cost Efficiency: Streamlines processes to maximize ROI despite licensing costs.
Integration Quality: Works well with existing systems, reducing transition challenges.

OpenText Data Protector finds application in sectors requiring robust data protection, such as finance and healthcare, securing data in compliance-sensitive environments. Industries rely on it for protecting Oracle databases and ensuring data retention and recovery in both short- and long-term scenarios.

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