We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."
"It is a very stable product and very scalable."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Live replication and up to the second type of failover are valuable. The fact that we can do test failovers and failbacks is important for our ISO certification."
"The feature I've found most valuable so far has been the ability to migrate the VMs from Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. It's made our migration seamless. In the beginning, we were looking at freeware tools, and it was just a massive headache. Zerto solved a lot of the roadblocks that we'd run into in the past."
"Zerto is so easy to use that when I showed it to my manager, he said jokingly, 'Huh. I could use it myself, I don't need you.' Zerto is most elegant."
"The time it takes to fail a server over to DR has been great."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."
"Zerto offered us massive time saving and consistency. We have a consistent outcome every time we complete conversions."
"We are in the process of switching over our production data center and Zerto has been a true time-saver that has cost us zero downtime."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."
"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."
"I would like to see more security features."
"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."
"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit."
"It is difficult to manage failing over between sites if you are at the site that was impacted."
"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."
"Zerto could add text alerts if there are critical problems and alerts if changes affect our replication."
"I wish they would...develop their PowerShell module to be more robust. So instead of having to rely on the API to actually include a PowerShell command, it would let you create VPGs, delete VPGs, modify VPGs, etc. This would ease the automation effort of deployment and decommissioning and I'd really appreciate that."
"When I have a technical question, it sometimes takes a while for tech support to respond."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 236 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault Cloud and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service . See our Azure Site Recovery vs. Zerto report.
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