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description Zerto Overview

Zerto is a powerful data protection platform renowned for its granular, continuous data replication and extremely low Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). While not exclusively an AWS migration tool, its ability to replicate and orchestrate failover across multiple targets, including AWS, makes it invaluable for complex DR planning. It excels where RTO and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are the absolute highest priorities, regardless of the destination cloud.

help Zerto FAQ

Can Zerto move a VMware workload into AWS without taking a long backup window?

Zerto is built around continuous replication and a journal, so it is usually used when the acceptable RPO is measured in seconds or minutes instead of a nightly backup. For AWS moves, the important check is whether the source hypervisor, network mapping, and target AWS account are supported in the Zerto version you are licensing.

Why would a disaster recovery team use Zerto instead of VMware SRM?

Zerto focuses on hypervisor-level continuous data protection and orchestrated failover, while VMware Site Recovery Manager is more tightly tied to VMware replication and vSphere workflows. Teams often look at Zerto when they need multi-site recovery plans across VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, or AWS rather than only a VMware-to-VMware path.

What does Zerto's journal actually let you recover from?

The journal lets admins rewind a protected workload to a recent point before a crash, bad deployment, ransomware encryption, or accidental deletion. In practice, that means the recovery point is not just last night's snapshot, but a sequence of checkpoints captured during replication.

Did Zerto become part of HPE, and does that matter for support?

Yes, Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquired Zerto in 2021. That matters for procurement and support because many enterprise buyers now evaluate Zerto inside HPE's data protection and hybrid cloud portfolio rather than as a standalone startup tool.

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