HPE Zerto Software vs OpenText Migrate comparison

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and OpenText are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 4.5% mindshare in CM, compared to OpenText’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

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98% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and OpenText Migrate compete in data management solutions, focusing on data protection and migration. HPE Zerto Software has the upper hand in real-time replication and disaster recovery, whereas OpenText Migrate offers better value in data migration.

Features: HPE Zerto Software provides continuous data protection, rapid recovery, and integrated disaster recovery systems. OpenText Migrate offers robust data migration features, seamless migration processes across diverse environments, and adaptability for complex migration projects.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Migrate is recognized for a straightforward deployment process and available support, while HPE Zerto Software emphasizes comprehensive service support with a focus on recovery and protection systems.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software requires a higher upfront setup investment, offset by potential substantial recovery-focused ROI, while OpenText Migrate offers a lower initial cost with a focus on long-term savings through efficient migrations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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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

360

Ranking in other categories

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

OpenText Migrate

Ranking in Cloud Migration

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Migration Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 4.5%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Migrate is 4.2%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	4.5%
OpenText Migrate	4.2%
Other	91.3%

Cloud Migration

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Aslah Faseel K

DevOps 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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Ludovik DOPIERALA

Manager, Service Line at ARTEMYS INVEST

Migration projects have become faster and have saved significant time on complex workloads

OpenText Migrate is our primary tool. I know they have a lot of other products like DNS and tools from cybersecurity, but we don't use it at this time. On Demand Recovery, for recovery, we use another tool from OpenText. It's C2C. It's a product to back up the mailbox. I don't know what I can find at this time. So maybe yes, but the last time I used it was a few months ago. It does the job, so I don't have an opinion on this currently. They don't have a lot of marketing actions. We know this product because we are an OpenText partner for the C2C. But it's another division. It's another part of the company. So we don't have a lot of information. So, I think they can improve the communication for the end-user because a lot of customers do not know OpenText, and they don't know they can provide this type of tool. My overall rating for this product is 9.

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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

"Our ROI is quite significant, as the SQL cost savings alone would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year."

"Zerto is intuitive. We could set everything up in the environment within a day and a half and start migrating on the third day."

"The most valuable feature is Zerto's ability to precopy data to a remote destination prior to the actual live migration period. That saves us a lot of time and has been very helpful. For example, if we had migrations occurring in waves over a period of several weeks with a VPG or VPG setup of approximately 50 VMs, that is multiple gigabytes of data, even terabytes in many cases. Having that data already copied on the evening of the migration saves considerable hours of time. It easily saves us four to six hours a night."

"Speed of recovery has been very effective in getting our information back as fast as we're able to get it. The daily backup solution that we use alternatively only allows a single backup versus having continuous backup replication with Zerto, it's a no-brainer."

"Journaling allows us to leverage Zerto's journal for sub-minute recoveries, instead of having to wait for the storage array to replicate."

"The features I appreciate the most about HPE Zerto Software are the automated failover and orchestration, and then the journal for point-in-time recovery."

"We never had a disaster recovery site before, so this will protect us in the event of a disaster."

"Zerto's ease of use is outstanding; it's easy to set up and has a clear interface and menus. The reporting, analytics, and online monitoring are also excellent."

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"OpenText Migrate is a very good product because it is an older product and they have a lot of tools, and they have a lot of experience on the migration tools."

"Carbonite Migrate works well in Windows platform migrations and in the case of a VML platform. The migration is smooth in Windows environments."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"It is a good third-party migration tool because it can be used with clients who have heterogeneous environments."

"Carbonite Migrate is helpful on an infrastructure level."

Cons

"I would appreciate more integration with vCenter in the next release and how we can protect our production servers and automatically get them put into a VPG."

"I want to have an OVF or some local deployment where I can deploy the ZVRA rather than having to push it from the console. Some of our smaller remote sites have relatively poor bandwidth, and they can't keep up with the constant deployment stream from our center console, meaning we have to find some creative hours to get around the bandwidth bottlenecks. If I could push out a small install file, install it locally, and then reach back to the console, that would be excellent."

"For improvement points, because Zerto is not a backup company, if they could implement some kind of backup solutions, it would help us out significantly."

"We've also found that certain situations will not work for us since we haven't finalized the air gap vault in place, and we know that using some simulated ransomware attacks would cause problems, so we wouldn't be able to recover."

"There is room for improvement in the upgrades."

"We had a situation where we had to relicense VMs once they were moved over. We later found out that that feature is built-in, but it's not easy to find. The way it's done is that you have to go to the target site to turn it on. If that were explained a little bit better up front, that would be helpful."

"HPE Zerto Software didn't help to reduce my organization's DR testing; I was shocked by it since whenever I actually performed the DR test, it took my environments down."

"I had a couple of questions after deployment, but nothing major, about a couple of ways I could tweak it."

More HPE Zerto Software cons

"Carbonite failed when moving GIS data."

"We find it very difficult to use these tools in a multi-cloud environment"

"Migration in RHEL and Linux environments can be improved. During RHEL migration with multiple data areas, you have to create a similar source environment at the destination. This can be challenging because you have to install it, create the VM, install over it, and mount it at the mount point. Only then can you do the migration."

"If we had to move 100 applications across a multi-cloud environment, then this solution would not work."

"Migration in RHEL and Linux environments can be improved."

"The pricing for the customer is always too expensive."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing seems fair."

"The pricing is based on virtual machines. They need to do better in regards to their tiering pricing rather than one price per VM. A lot of times we have VMs that are lower tier, such as Tier 2 or Tier 3, but we pay the same price as for Tier 1. I know they are developing this out, but it would be nice if they could provide a little better pricing in regards to their tiering protection."

"Pricing depends on your future growth. Start small and then scale up."

"The licensing model is good. The price is a little bit expensive, but for what customers get on it, it tends to pay for itself. However, if more and more companies start to improve, then Zerto may need to look at their pricing and make it a little better."

"It is not cheap, but it is reasonable for what it is offering. It gives me the peace of mind that my data is protected. It is worth the cost."

"The cost is one of the only drawbacks of Zerto because it's very high, and the overall impact of the solution on our organization is relatively low. This is why we are trying to figure out if another product could fulfill the same role for cheaper."

"I think everything can be cheaper. Pricing limited our ability to use Zerto as much as we'd like, but that's not why we haven't adopted it as our primary backup solution."

"I know it is per server, but I am not fully aware of the price model. I know for our VDI environment, they are looking at something that is on the lower end and that they can use just for migrations and not so much a disaster recovery."

More HPE Zerto Software pricing and cost advice

"The licensing costs are really high."

"In terms of pricing, I think it's an expensive tool."

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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

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	94
Midsize Enterprise	93
Large Enterprise	207

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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?

HPE Zerto Software's GUI needs modernization to match the flexibility and user experience of other HPE software solutions, as there is still room for improvement in software-level flexibility and t...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Carbonite Migrate?

Carbonite was not cheap.

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What needs improvement with Carbonite Migrate?

C2C is OpenText. It's Carbonite. It was a backup for the mailbox and Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, or similar applications. We don't use it. The only tools that we use to encrypt data are the legacy...

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What is your primary use case for Carbonite Migrate?

I use this project because I work for an IT company in France and we perform a lot of migration work, and we often use OpenText Migrate. We perform a lot of migration of Microsoft Active Directory,...

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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

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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

OpenText Migrate provides a robust and efficient way to transition workloads and applications across different environments, ensuring business continuity and seamless operation in complex IT infrastructures.

OpenText Migrate simplifies the process of moving servers and applications, offering an adaptable and efficient platform that minimizes downtime and maintains data integrity during transfers. It caters to varied migrations, whether on-premise, between data centers, or to cloud environments, supporting the rapid pacing of digital transformation.

What are the key features of OpenText Migrate?

Automated Workflows: Streamline migrations with automated processes, reducing manual intervention.
Scalability: Handle large-scale migrations with the ability to scale operations to meet demand.
Data Security: Maintain security protocols to ensure data integrity throughout the migration.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Facilitate migration across different OS and hardware configurations.
Monitoring and Reporting: Gain real-time insights and detailed reports to track migration progress.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Reduced Downtime: Achieve minimal service interruption, ensuring business continuity.
Cost Efficiency: Decrease expenses associated with manual migration efforts and errors.
Improved Performance: Benefit from optimized workloads that enhance operational efficiencies.
Enhanced Security: Protect sensitive data during the migration process, maintaining compliance.

OpenText Migrate implementations are versatile, adept at supporting industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing where IT resilience is critical. Its ability to accommodate diverse migration needs allows sectors to maintain productivity and enhance performance with minimal disruption.

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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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