Introduction to Zerto Virtual Replication
What is Zerto Virtual Replication?
Zerto Virtual Replication Architecture
How Zerto Virtual Replication Recovery Works
Benefits of Using Zerto Virtual Replication
Initial Site Configuration
Setting Up Role-based Access Control
Enabling Replication to the Same Site
Sizing Considerations
VMDK Size Limitations
WAN Sizing
Setting Up Offsite Backups
Creating an Offsite Backup Repository
Editing an Offsite Backup Repository
Overview of Recovery Flows
Flow for a Disaster Recovery Operation
Flow for a Test Failover Operation
Flow for a File or Folder Level Restore Operation
Flow for an Offsite Backup and Restore Operation
Introduction to Protecting Virtual Machines
Configuring Virtual Protection Groups
The Role of the Journal During Protection
What happens After the VPG is Defined
Recovery
File and Folder Recovery
Offsite Backups
Protecting Virtual Machines from a vCenter Server
Protecting Virtual Machines to a Recovery Site vCenter Server
Protecting Virtual Machines to the Same Site
When to Replicate to the Same Site
Protecting a Single Virtual Machine (Via the VMware Web Client or Client Console)
Protecting Virtual Machines to Recovery Hyper-V Hosts
Protecting Virtual Machines on a vCenter Server to AWS
Protecting Virtual Machines on a vCenter Server to Azure
Azure Limitations Which Affect Installation and Recoverability
Protecting Virtual Machines to and From vCloud Director
Replication From a Protected Site vCenter Server to a Recovery Site vCloud Director
Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to a Recovery Site vCloud Director
Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to a Recovery Site vCenter Server
Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to Hyper-V
Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to AWS
Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to Azure
Azure Limitations Which Affect Installation and Recoverability
Monitoring Zerto Virtual Replication
The DASHBOARD Tab
Monitoring VPGs – The VPGs Tab
List View - GENERAL
List View - PERFORMANCE
List View - BACKUP
Additional Fields and Options
Grid View
Saving Details of Virtual Protection Groups to a File
Monitoring a Single VPG
Monitoring Tasks
Monitoring Protected Virtual Machines – The VMs Tab
Monitoring Peer Sites – The SITES Tab
Monitoring Virtual Replication Appliances
Monitoring VRAs – The SETUP Tab – VRAs Tab
Monitoring a Single VRA
Monitoring Datastores – The SETUP Tab – The DATASTORES Tab
Monitoring Repositories – The SETUP Tab – The REPOSITORIES Tab
Monitoring Offsite Backups – The OFFSITE BACKUP Tab
VPGs Tab
VMs Tab
Zerto Performance Counters
Managing VPGs
Editing a VPG
Modifying the Journal Size Hard Limit
Modifying the Retention Period for Offsite Backups
Modifying VPG Recovery Volume
Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG
Azure Limitations Which Affect Installation and Recoverability
Deleting Virtual Machines in a VPG
Modifying Protected Virtual Machine Volumes
Changing the Recovery Datastore for a Protected Virtual Machine
Modifying a Protected RDM Volume
Pausing and Resuming the Protection of a VPG
Forcing the Synchronization of a VPG
Handling a VPG in an Error State
Deleting a VPG
Deleting a VPG When the Status is Deleting
Running an Unscheduled Offsite Backup
Ensuring Application Consistency – Checkpoints
Adding a Checkpoint to Identify a Key Point
Ensuring Transaction Consistency in Microsoft Windows Server Environments
Running Scripts Before or After Recovering a VPG
Creating a Script
Example Scripts
Exporting and Importing VPG Definitions
VPG Statuses and Synchronization Triggers
VPG Statuses
VPG Synchronization Triggers
Managing Protection When the Recovery Datastore Will Be Unavailable (Datastore Maintenance)
Managing VRAs
Installing a VRA
Editing VRA Settings
Editing the VRA Connection Method or Password
Changing a Recovery VRA
Uninstalling VRAs
Handling a VRA in an Error State (Ghost VRA)
Managing Protection During VMware Host Maintenance
Managing Protection When Moving a Host to a Different Cluster
Support for VMware Virtual Update Manager (VUM)
Managing a Zerto Virtual Manager
Check Connectivity Between Zerto Virtual Replication Components
Reconfiguring the Zerto Virtual Manager Setup
Reconfiguring the Microsoft SQL Server Database Used by the Zerto Virtual Manager
Replacing the SSL Certificate
Pair to Another Site and Unpair Sites
Pair to Another Site
Unpairing Sites
Advanced Site Configuration
Site Settings
Editing Information About a Site
Defining Performance and Throttling
Defining Site Policies
Configuring Email Settings
Defining Resource Report Sampling Period
Reviewing Supported Host Versions
Seeing What Is Licensed
Submitting a Support Ticket
About Zerto Virtual Replication
Overview of Disaster Recovery Operations
The Failover Test Operation
The Move Operation
The Failover Operation
The Restore File Operation
The Clone Operation
Testing Recovery
The Test Failover Process
Starting and Stopping Failover Tests
What Happens After Starting a Test?
Viewing Test Results
Live Disaster Recovery Testing
Basic Verification – User Traffic Is Not Run against the Recovered VMs
Run User Traffic Against the Recovered VMs
Migrating a VPG to a Recovery Site
The Move Process
Moving Protected Virtual Machines to a Remote Site
Reverse Protection For a Moved VPG
Migrating Zerto Virtual Replication to a New Virtual Machine
Managing Failover
The Failover Process
Initiating a Failover
Reverse Protection for a Failed Over VPG
What Happens When the Protected Site is Down
Initiating a Failover During a Test
Cloning a VPG to the Recovery Site
The Clone Process
Cloning Protected Virtual Machines to the Remote Site
Recovering Files and Folders
The File and Folder Recovery Process
Recovering Files and Folders
Restoring an Offsite Backup
The Restore Process
Restoring Virtual Machines
Zerto Virtual Replication Reports
Outbound Protection Over Time Report
Protection Over Time by Site Report
Recovery Reports
Resources Report
Using a REST API to Generate a Report
Details Tab
Monthly Usage Report
VPG Performance Report
Backup Report
Troubleshooting
Ensuring the Zerto Virtual Manager is Running
Troubleshooting Needs Configuration Problems
Troubleshooting GUI Problems
Troubleshooting VRA Problems
Handling Lack of Storage Space for Recovered Virtual Machines
Zerto Virtual Replication Diagnostics Utility
Collecting Zerto Virtual Replication Logs
Using Remote Log Collection
Using the Zerto Diagnostics application
Collecting Log Information for the ZertoVssAgent
Understanding the Logs
Zerto Virtual Replication and VMware Features
Zerto Virtual Replication Permissions in vCenter Server
Stopping a vCenter Server
Thin-Provisioning
VMware Clusters
VMware High Availability (VMHA)
DRS
Storage Profiles and Storage Clusters
Fault Tolerance
Host Affinity Rules and CPU Pinning
vMotion
Storage vMotion
VMware Host Maintenance Mode
Resiliency to vSphere Environment Changes
Backing Up an Embedded Zerto Virtual Replication Database
Backing Up an External Zerto Virtual Replication Database - a Single Database on the SQL Server
Backing Up an External Zerto Virtual Replication Database - Multiple Databases on the SQL Server
Introduction to Zerto Virtual Replication
Backing Up an External Zerto Virtual Replication Database - Multiple Databases on the SQL Server
FailoverTest
FailoverTestStartStep
Move
MoveExecutionStep
MoveStartStep
Failover
FailoverExecutionStep
FailoverStartStep
DownloadFLR
Restore
RestorePointStep
RestoreVMSettingsStep
RestoreSummaryStep