Recovery-ware upstart Zerto: From Hyper-V to VMware and back again In a blow against hypervisor lock-in, Recovery-ware startup Zerto has extended its VMware hypervisor-based technology to embrace Hyper-V, providing cross-hypervisor replication from VMware to Hyper-V or vice versa. Virtual machines can now be continuously protected by Zerto's changed block-level replication to a second server …
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"other replication products from, for example, NetApp, are based on snapshots and don't offer continuous data protection"
EMC & Hitachi offer continuous replication, synchronously or asynchronously depending on configuration.
"while having more of a performance impact on the source server than Zerto's low-touch replication"
Both of the above have no performance impact on the source server as it's handled within the SAN.
That said, it's an option for those who can't afford the enterprise level storage solutions from EMC etc, particularly because it allows heterogeneous storage solutions, but marketing it correctly would build more trust.
The cross cloud replication is not unique. Strongly recommend you look at Unitrends Boomerang recently announced VMware to AWS replication.
Great to see the growing interest in heterogeneous replication for on-premise, second site DR and also into the cloud. This growing open support for virtual as well as physical replication and recovery options and replication to public clouds will continue to be a growing trend
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