Super Simple and
Disaster Recovery
Really Can Go Together
Here’s the Proof
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER1
“Zerto is a mission-critical application
for our business, and we could not
function without it.”
— Survey respondent3
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER2
3, 2, 1 ...
3
Select the virtual machine(s) you
want to replicate, such as those
used for a specific application.
2
Select the point in time to test with
or fail over to from the journal.
1
Click “Failover.”
FAILOVER IS DONE
It’s that simple to do failover, failback, replication, or recovery in minutes with Zerto Virtual Replication. It takes just a few clicks and can
even be done during regular work hours with no break in protection and no impact to production.
Learn more in “3 Step Failover Testing for Disaster Recovery.”
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER3
SURVEY SAYS ... 3
EASY OR VERY EASY
92%
92% of respondents classified installation of Zerto Virtual Replication as easy or very easy.
LESS THAN 1 HOUR
40%
40% of respondents spent less than 1 hour to install Zerto Virtual Replication; 52% spent less than 4 hours; 0% required more than 8 hours.
100%
LESS THAN 3 PEOPLE
The maximum number of people needed to execute a disaster-recovery (DR) test using Zerto Virtual Replication for all respondents was 2 to 3 people (52%); 48% require only 1 person.
LESS THAN 1 HOUR
76%
76% of respondents spend less than 1 hour per week managing Zerto Virtual Replication; 52% spend less than 30 minutes.
LESS THAN 30 SECONDS
80%
80% of respondents have recovery-point objectives (RPOs) of 30 seconds or less with Zerto Virtual Replication; 40% have RPOs of less than 10 seconds; 0% have RPOs of more than 15 minutes.
LESS THAN 15 MINUTES
72%
72% of respondents reported recovery-time objectives (RTOs) of less than 15 minutes with Zerto Virtual Replication: 28% less than 5 minutes, 44% 6 to 15 minutes, and 0% more than 1 hour.
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER4
“I can rest assured knowing Zerto
is handling all the things I had to
babysit before.”
— Survey respondent3
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER5
SIMPLE TO INSTALL, SIMPLE TO USE
Zerto Virtual Replication is a single, simple software solution for all replication, recovery
orchestration, and automation. Install it in minutes, set up your recovery plan, and:
• Recover one file; one virtual machine (VM); one application; all, or a
subset, of virtualized applications; or all VMs from any storage to any
storage in three clicks.
• Access recovery points of just a few seconds apart across a 30-day journal.
With Zerto, “we see RPOs of seconds and
RTOs of minutes.”1
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— James Horrod, Group Platform Architect,
Kingfisher
• Access the most aggressive RPOs available today — 10-second RPOs are typical,
and many customers have RPOs lower than that!
• Get the fastest RTOs in the industry — RTOs of minutes are the norm!
78%
78% Fewer Hours
Customers surveyed report spending
78% fewer hours each week to manage
and configure Zerto Virtual Replication
compared to their previous solutions.3
“Zerto doesn’t require a highly specialized
skill set where only one or two people have
the knowledge — that means I can take
vacation.”4
— Director of IT, U.S.-based financial company
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER6
SUPER SIMPLE FOR A U.S.-BASED
FINANCIAL COMPANY
1 PERSON
The number of people
required to complete a failover
test, failover, or recovery
15–30 MINUTES
RTO with Zerto Virtual
Replication, compared to
8 to 24 hours before
With 50 VMs, one U.S.-based financial
company was using five different solutions
“bolted together” to try to get the functionality
it needed for DR. It wasn’t succeeding. It took
a full month to run a test without disrupting
the production environment, and it took 8 to
24 hours to execute a recovery.
“A lot of products have a completely
different process for failover and
recovery. Zerto uses the same clicks
to get back to original as it does to get
to failover — that’s a direct reflection
of simplicity.”
Zerto Virtual Replication enables the company
to test in a few hours. It can even test during
the day, without disrupting production or
creating downtime. IT doesn’t even execute
the test — the compliance manager does it
herself. Failovers now take 15 to 30 minutes
at the most and can be done by one person.
“A byproduct of Zerto for me is the
business continuity piece; before it
was a DR plan only. I couldn’t use it for
continuity. Now, its simplicity lets me
proactively take action on things instead
of only being reactive as before. That’s
a great tool to have in my tool belt.”
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The size of the company’s
training manual for Zerto
Virtual Replication
“Simplicity is the theme for all aspects of how I use
the product — from training to testing to maintaining.”
— Director of IT, U.S.-based financial company
All quotes and statistical references on this page were taken from an interview with the company representative and are specific to the
company mentioned. Individual results may vary.
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER7
SUPER SIMPLE FOR TENCATE
6 SECONDS
RPOs with Zerto
Virtual Replication,
compared to 8 hours
with the previous solution
20 MINUTES
Time to train new team
members on Zerto
Virtual Replication
SECONDS
Time spent daily to manage
Zerto Virtual Replication,
compared to hours to
document before
TenCate is a multinational company that
develops and produces advanced textiles and
composites, geosynthetics, and grass for the
protection of people and their working and
living environments.
With 14 different physical locations, 200
virtual machines in the Americas, and the
need to integrate new acquisitions, TenCate
Senior Systems Engineer Jayme Williams
relies on virtualization and the simplicity of
Zerto Virtual Replication to integrate new
groups and protect TenCate’s IT
(and intellectual property [IP]).
“I spend about 20 minutes training
team members on it [Zerto Virtual
Replication]. Its simplicity and power
are not found in any other BC/DR
solution for VMware.”
“And with ransomware coming out,
being able to extend the journal out
to many more days makes us a lot
more comfortable.”
“I move the slider to ‘test,’ and then click ‘test-failover’ and ‘okay.’
That makes the data available to generate all of the reports to
hand off to the auditor, and that’s it. It’s literally three clicks and
the test is done and I’m compliant.”
— Jayme Williams, Senior Systems Engineer, TenCate
All quotes and statistical references on this page were taken from an interview with the company representative and are specific to the
company mentioned. Individual results may vary.
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER8
SIMPLICITY THAT SCALES
FOR PREMIER
20 MINUTES
The time to implement
Zerto Virtual Replication
MORE THAN 90%
>90%
Time savings with Zerto
Virtual Replication
compared to VMware Site
Recovery Manager and
storage replication
SECONDS
The time the applications
team spends on recovery
with Zerto Virtual
Replication — compared to
12 to 14 hours before
Premier, Inc. is an alliance of more than 230
U.S. hospitals that leverage volume purchasing
power and actionable data collection. With
1,400 VMs and 382 TB of data in use for the
company’s production environment, Premier
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer Bob Lanning loves
the simplicity of Zerto Virtual Replication.
The application engineers who used to spend
days recovering production, and now don’t
have to spend any time for recovery, love the
solution — and they love Bob now too. All
the applications team has to do now is keep
production correct; other than that, they can
do development and testing and not worry
about recovery at all.
“From a support standpoint, Zerto is
the easiest vendor to use for support
by far. When I put in a ticket, I almost
instantly get an email asking what I
want to do … jump on a WebEx or
whatever. And they escalate for you.”
“98% of our environment is virtualized,
so most of our critical stuff is on
VMware, and with just the touch of a
button, that whole load is protected.”
For Bob, doing failover with Zerto Virtual
Replication is “a piece of cake.” Bob says,
“With three clicks of a mouse, you have stuff
started failing over. It’s just that easy.”
“Setting up VM 1,398 was not any harder than the first
two. It’s just data entry at that point.”
— Bob Lanning, Sr. Infrastructure Engineer, Premier, Inc.
All quotes and statistical references on this page were taken from an interview with the company representative and are specific to the
company mentioned. Individual results may vary.
SUPER SIMPLE AND DISASTER RECOVERY REALLY CAN GO TOGETHER9
“It just works.”
— Survey respondent3
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30-day journal available with Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0; version 4.5 includes a 14-day journal.
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Results taken from a Zerto survey of actual customers from September 2016.
4
From an interview with a company representative. Individual results may vary.
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