We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"The solution is strong."
"We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"There are two things that are keeping us with the solution: 1. It does a very good job of keeping the data in sync at all times. 2. In the event of a failover or in the event of a contingency, we are able to retrieve the data very quickly without any issues."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"The near-synchronous replication is key. That has allowed us to provide the low RPOs that we promise. For key systems, that has been the deciding factor."
"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."
"Zerto's continuous data protection is unmatched. It's phenomenal. It's also very easy to use. The menus are self-explanatory. Once you understand the terminology of the product, what the VPGs (Virtual Protected Groups) are, you're able to pretty much do what you want in the product. It's very easy to use."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."
"VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."
"The only thing I really don't like about Zerto is that the ZVM has to be a Windows server. I can spin up any OBA template whenever I want to, but if it has an OS that's tied to it, then I have to involve the OS team from my company. That drives me crazy."
"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."
"It would be nice if we were able to purchase single licenses for Zerto. As it is now, scaling requires that we purchase a multi-pack."
"Zerto's near-synchronous replication is excellent when it works. I'm trying to be nice to them because I like the product a lot, but we're having a lot of difficulty with it in our environment."
"There needs to be more flexibility in the licensing."
"I would like to have an overall orchestration capability that would enable you to do multiple VPGs in some sort of order, with delays in between."
"Right now, if you have an error, it creates a link that takes you to a website to review information about the problem. It would be nice if Zerto could give you information within the app instead of referring you to a web application."
"Migration of complex VMware and Hyper-V solution. Using Zerto to replicate to azure and S3."
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 13 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Azure Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Zerto report.
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