Zerto delivers enterprise-class Disaster Recovery in an easy to use package
What do you like best?
We leverage Zerto for Disaster Recovery failover between our primary data center and our secondary data center. We put all of our critical, Tier 1 applications into Zerto replication groups so we can fail them over in case of an emergency. We have also used Zerto for data center consolidations and migrations since it is a great tool to be used for that type of project as well. We like the flexibility that Zerto provides us and its overall ease of use.
What do you dislike?
The price-point for Zerto could be a little more affordable. The only other quibble I have with the product is that it is hard to dial-in the email alerting at a granular level - we often get too many email alerts and that can be annoying. Other than that I have no other issues with Zerto.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is good to have done a thorough Business Impact Analysis to know what your business-critical applications are; they complete technology stacks for these applications and what the RPO & RTO timeframes are for these applications. Once you have that information, you can know how much Zerto licensing you will need to purchase to protect your environment.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We are using Zerto to provide our company Disaster Recovery services for all of our Tier 1 applications. We replicated all of the servers involved with the applications from our primary data center to our secondary data center via replication groups. It is easy to test out DR failovers with Zerto as well - so this frees up our Administrators time to focus on other issues.
