Hypervisor-based Replication Technology Comparison

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

Zertos 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.

Zerto meets all the requirements of protecting enterprise applications running in virtualized environments by providing
hypervisor-based replication, continuous data protection, disaster recovery orchestration & automation with an offsite backup
for a 3rd copy of the data to ensure you can always recover in one simple to use software solution.

Feature Description
COMPARED TECHNOLOGIES
The current and legacy solutions compared in this
document include:
Hypervisor-based BC/DR for VMware vSphere &
Replication Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors Zerto Virtual Replication
Enterprise-class replication, recovery orchestration
and automation BC/DR technology
Granular, VM-level Granular VM protection with no
protection snapshots and no slowdown RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM)
Hypervisor based replication, CDP and recovery
solution for VMware BC/DR
Storage Agnostic Replicate from anything to
Replication anything removing lock-in Array Based Replication (ABR)
LUN replication between storage arrays with manual
recovery and testing operations
Continuous Data Any point in time recovery DVR-
Protection like protection Site Recovery Manager (SRM) + ABR
SRM v6 utilizing ABR configured between matching
storage arrays for VMware BC/DR
Full BC/DR Automated failover, failback &
Orchestration non-disruptive isolated testing SRM + vSphere Replication (VR)
SRM utilizing the vSphere replication v6 engine for
VM-level protection for VMware BC/DR
Aggressive Realize RPOs of seconds & RTOs
Veeam Replication
Service Levels of minutes
Replication using Veeam Backup & Replication v8
utilizing snapshots for VMware & Hyper-V
Recover applications with multi-
Protect Applications Double-Take Availability for vSphere
VM consistency groupings
Hypervisor based replication and recovery solution for
VMware BC/DR
Installation in minutes with no
Simple Installation COMPARISON METHODOLOGY
downtime
To provide a meaningful comparison, the features
required as part of a complete BC/DR solution have
Always recover with 3rd data copy been separated into the following categories:
Offsite Backup
taken from replicated data
Architecture
Replication
Complete One software solution for
BC/DR complete BC/DR protection Automation
Cloud Readiness

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COMPARISON MATRIX

SRM & SRM & Double-

Zerto RP4VM ABR Veeam
Architecture ABR VR Take

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

Hypervisor-based replication l l l l
Installable in minutes l l l
No downtime for installation l l l l l l
Software only l l l l l
Scalable to 5000 VMs l l
Upgrade in-place l l Complex Complex l l
Offsite backup from replica data l

SRM & SRM & Double-

Zerto RP4VM ABR Veeam
Replication ABR VR Take

RPO = seconds with no snapshots l l

RPO headroom for large data change l l
Recover to any point in time l l
Multi-VM consistency groupings l l l l
Cross-hypervisor replication l
Storage agnostic per-VM replication l l l l l
Zero guest performance impact l
vMotion & svMotion support l l l l
Built-in WAN compression l l l l l
Bandwidth throttling and QOS l
Schedule application consistency l l l l
Automatic journal re-sizing l
SQL Temp DB optimization l

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 SRM & SRM & Double-
Automation Zerto RP4VM ABR Veeam
ABR VR Take

RTO = minutes with boot ordering 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 l l
Non-disruptive failover testing l l l l
Automatic re-IP of VMs l l l l l
Custom script support l l l l

SRM & SRM & Double-

Cloud Readiness Zerto RP4VM ABR Veeam
ABR VR Take

Replication to Zerto Cloud Provider l

Replication to AWS l l
Multi-tenancy & traffic isolation l
vCloud Director integration l l
Self-service portals l
Full REST based API l l l l l
Multi-site management interface l l l

SUMMARY
Only Zerto Virtual Replication 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.

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Management, 2014, Roberta J. Witty, John P Morency, Robert Naegle, April 2014. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartners
research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.

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TOPOLOGIES

1 Private CloudAny Storage, Multi-Hypervisor 2 Satellite OfficesAny Distance

3 Hybrid CloudDRaaS, Intra-Cloud & Reverse DRaas 4 Public CloudDRaaS to AWS

+200
ZCSP

MULTI-HYPERVISOR ARCHITECTURE

For each vCenter/SCVMM Small & Scalable

Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) install in minutes VM-level replication
DR Mgmt & VM level integration Compression, Throttling & Resiliency

Production Site BC/DR Site

vCenter ZVM SCVMM ZVM

> 5 Mbps
VM VRA VM VRA VM VRA VM VRA

VM VM VM VM VM-Level Replication VM VM VM VM

No downtime, no impact install Point in time recovery

Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances (VRA) Replica VM & Recovery Site Journaling
One per host in source & target cluster Only 710% additional space

WANT TO TRY IT OUT?

Zerto Virtual Replication can be installed, configured and replicating VMs in under 1 hour. With simple VM-based replication
enabling RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes why not go to www.zerto.com and click to download a free trial today?

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