Hypervisor-based Replication Technology Comparison

A Comparison of Zerto vs. Current & Legacy BC/DR Technologies

Zerto is the industry first IT Resilience Platform™ to deliver a single solution for disaster recovery, data protection
and workload mobility to, from or between multiple clouds. By combining continuous replication, automated
orchestration and enterprise class scalability, the Zerto platform dramatically simplifies IT operations and increases
business agility.

Zerto’s innovative, hypervisor-based replication technology for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments
delivers a true enterprise-class, yet fully virtual-aware, complete BC/DR solution for all virtualized applications that
require protection.

Feature Description
COMPARED TECHNOLOGIES
The current and legacy solutions compared in this
Remove lock-in & evolve IT with storage & document include:
IT Resilience
hypervisor-agnostic replication
Zerto IT Resilience PlatformTM
Enterprise-class replication, recovery orchestration
Single disaster recovery solution for VMware
Simplicity and automation IT Resilience Platform
vSphere & Microsoft Hyper-V
RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1 (RP4VM)
Hypervisor- Scale-out enterprise-class architecture, protect, Hypervisor based replication, CDP and recovery
based recover & migrate thousands of VMs solution for VMware BC/DR

Array Based Replication (ABR)

Data loss in seconds & continuous replication of
Always-on LUN replication between storage arrays with
VM block-level changes with no snapshots
manual recovery and testing operations
Securely monitor protection across multiple Site Recovery Manager v6.5 (SRM)+ ABR
Zerto Analytics
sites from anywhere anytime
SRM v6.5 utilizing ABR configured between
matching storage arrays for VMware BC/DR
Simultaneously replicate VMs both locally and to
One-To-Many
multiple remote sites SRM v6.5 + vSphere Replication (VR)
SRM utilizing the vSphere replication v6 engine for
Recover individual applications or entire sites in VM-level protection for VMware BC/DR
Automation
minutes with 1-click failback
Veeam Replication v9.5
Replication using Veeam Backup & Replication v9
Re-wind and recover VMs & applications from
30 Granularity
any point in time up to 30 days ago utilizing snapshots for VMware & Hyper-V

Restore files & folders from seconds before
File-level
corruption, ransomware infection or deletion
Double-Take
Replication and recovery solution using agents
inside each VM to continuously replicate writes

Prove No-impact failover testing and reporting to

COMPARISON METHODOLOGY
Compliance prove recovery in working hours in minutes
To provide a meaningful comparison, the features
required as part of a complete BC/DR solution have
Fully automate deployment & VM protection
API REST API been separated into the following categories:
with easy to use ready-made examples
• Architecture
Utilize ZVR on premise or for DRaaS to Azure, • Replication
Future Proof
AWS or 1 of over 350 Zerto Cloud Providers • Recovery & Automation
• Cloud Readiness

Hypervisor-based Replication Technology TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

Comparison Matrix

SRM & SRM & Double-

Architecture ZERTO RP4VM ABR ABR VR Veeam Take

BC/DR for vSphere & Hyper-V l l l l

Hypervisor-based replication l l l

Installable in minutes at any scale l

Scalable to 10.000 VMs l l

Software-only l l l l l

Upgrade in-place in minutes l

No hypervisor version lock-in l l l l

Management redundancy l l l l l

SRM & SRM & Double-

Replication ZERTO RP4VM ABR ABR VR Veeam Take

Always-on, block-level with no scheduling l l Complex l

Storage agnostic VM-level replication l l l l l

RPO = seconds with no snapshots l l l

No protected VM performance impact l Partially

Re-wind to increments in seconds l l

Multi-VM consistency groupings l Complex l l

One-To-Many simultaneous replication l l

Cross-hypervisor replication l

vMotion & svMotion support l l Partially l l

Built-in WAN compression l l l l l

Bandwidth throttling and QOS l

Dynamic & compressed journaling l

SQL & Oracle Temp DB optimization l

Automatically protect new VMs l l l

Hypervisor-based Replication Technology TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

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Only Zerto provides enterprise-class replication features that easily align with flexible virtual environments and
provides the added advantages of being storage agnostic, hypervisor agnostic with fully integrated orchestration and
automation that is cloud ready and provides a complete BC/DR solution for your virtualized applications.

SRM & SRM & Double-

Recovery & Automation ZERTO RP4VM ABR ABR VR Veeam Take

Recover sites, apps, VMs & files l

Recover to thousands of points in time l l

RTO = minutes with boot ordering l l l l l

Cross-hypervisor VM conversion l

Orchestrated & automated failover l l l l l l

No snapshots on recovery VM l l l l

Failback with reverse protection l l Complex l l l l

Non-disruptive failover testing l l l l

Automatic re-IP, re-MAC of VMs l l l l l l

Recovery reports for compliance l l l l

REST API with automation examples l

SRM & SRM & Double-

Cloud Readiness ZERTO RP4VM ABR ABR VR Veeam Take

DRaaS to over 200 Zerto Cloud Providers l

DRaaS to Azure with RPOs in seconds l

DRaaS to AWS with RPOs in seconds l

Multi-tenancy & traffic isolation l

vCloud Director integration l l

Self-service portals & role based access l

SaaS Delivered Analytics l

Multi-site management interface l l

Hypervisor-based Replication Technology TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

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Architecture Overview

On-Premises
Microsoft Azure

ZCA
vCenter ZVM

IBM Cloud
VM
VRA VRA
VRA VM VRA
VRA
ZVM VRA

VM
VRA VM VM VM
VM-Level Replication
AWS AWS

ZCA
ZVM
vDisk

Managed

ZCC

Zerto Component Description

Central management interface for replication & recovery orchestration, deployed in a

Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM)
Windows VM, 1 per vCenter or SCVMM management server for redundancy

Scale-out architecture of 1 VRA per hypervisor host utilizing 1 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 12GB disk
Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)
& 1 IP for continuous VM block-level replication with no snapshots & no impact

Multi-VM consistency grouping mechanism for consistent recovery of applications,

Virtual Protection Group (VPG)
supports VMs across hosts, clusters, storage, HA, vMotion & Storage vMotion

Replica data stored as vDisks in target vSphere or Hyper-V environment with compressed
vDisk & Journal vDisk
journal vDisk for point in time recovery, average 7-10% additional space

Replicate over shared or dedicated port groups, VPNs & IP link, multi-site support, Direct
VM-level Replication
Connect, VPN to VPC for AWS, VPN to Virtual Network or Express Route for Azure

Combination of a ZVM & VRA running in a Windows Azure D3 v2 VM, storing replica data
Azure Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA)
in a storage account, with preconfigured recovery VMs only created when needed

Combination of a ZVM & VRA running in a Windows AWS m4.xlarge instance, storing
AWS Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA)
replica data in a S3, with preconfigured recovery instances only created when needed

About Zerto
Businesses need to be available to their customers, 24/7/365. Zerto provides Resilience for Evolving IT™ by ensuring
enterprises and their customers always m the simplest, most reliable BC/DR software solution built to protect applications
on any virtualized IT environment — be it public, private or hybrid cloud. Zerto’s proactive approach to recovery gives
companies the confidence they need to withstand any disaster, easily incorporate new technology, and quickly adapt to
accommodate evolving IT and business priorities. www.zerto.com
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