A Zerto alternative for Proxmox VE
Zerto set the bar for continuous, hypervisor-based replication and slick DR orchestration. ProxDR brings that same near-continuous, low-RPO disaster recovery to Proxmox VE — without the enterprise price tag.
What teams love about Zerto
Zerto's appeal is low-RPO, always-on replication at the hypervisor layer, plus one-click failover, non-disruptive testing, and simple failback. It made DR feel continuous rather than a nightly batch job.
Bringing that to Proxmox
ProxDR replicates your Proxmox VMs near-continuously — from every 10 minutes down to minutes — and adds the orchestration Proxmox lacks: recovery plans, non-disruptive DR testing in an isolated network, and one-click failover and failback across sites. Because it's built on QEMU dirty bitmaps, it protects VMs on any storage backend, not just ZFS or Ceph.
ProxDR vs Zerto at a glance
| Capability | Zerto | ProxDR |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | VMware / Hyper-V / cloud | Proxmox VE |
| Near-continuous replication | Yes | Yes |
| Non-disruptive DR testing | Yes | Yes |
| Recovery orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Point-in-time recovery | Yes (journaling) | Yes (verified points) |
| Continuous recovery-point integrity scrub | — | Auto-quarantines bit-rot |
| Ransomware / corruption detection | Yes | Yes |
| Boot-time guest filesystem repair | — | fsck + bootloader, pre-boot |
| Near-instant failback | Yes (journaling) | Yes (continuous reverse sync) |
| Manage & recover from either site | Via ZVM at each site | Identical UI at both, auto-routed — no split-brain |
| Works on any Proxmox storage | n/a | Yes |
| Fail-safe licensing (works offline) | — | Yes |
| Starting price | Per-VM, enterprise | $99/year per site pair |
Run DR from either site — one lightweight controller
Zerto's orchestration lives in a ZVM manager at each site, backed by a VRA on every host. ProxDR keeps the same operate-from-either-side resilience in a single lightweight controller per site — no per-host agents — with both sites presenting the identical web UI. Start a failover, DR test, or failback from whichever site you can reach; ProxDR routes each action to the controller that owns it, so there's no split-brain, and the recovery site stays fully in control even if the primary is completely down.
Priced for Proxmox teams
Zerto is priced per-VM for enterprises. ProxDR is priced per DR Site Pair — one production site paired with one recovery site, any number of nodes or VMs — starting at $99/year. Every tier includes the full DR feature set.
New to Proxmox DR? Start with the Proxmox disaster recovery guide, or see the VMware SRM comparison.