Storage Profiles and Storage Clusters
Profile-Driven Storage provides visibility into your storage pool, letting you optimize and automate storage provisioning.
Zerto Virtual Replication supports the use of storage profiles and storage clusters defined within a profile. If Zerto Virtual Replication cannot find a storage profile that can be used as target storage, the value is set to Zerto_Any. The storage profile can be set to Zerto_Any for a number of reasons, such as adding a virtual machine to the VPG which does not have a storage profile that can be used as the target.
When the storage profile is set to Zerto_Any, and vCD is used in the recovery site, any of the datastores configured in the Configure Provider vDCs dialog can be selected as recovery datastores, provided they are exposed to the relevant recovery hosts. Upon recovery, Zerto Virtual Replication chooses a storage profile available to the Org vDC, for the recovered vApp, that contains all of the datastores on which recovery volumes of the VPG reside. If there is no such storage profile, the recovery operation cannot start.