What is Zerto Virtual Replication?
Zerto Virtual Replication provides a business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) solution in a virtual environment, enabling the replication of mission-critical applications and data as quickly as possible, with minimal data loss. When devising a recovery plan, these two objectives, minimum time to recover and maximum data to recover, are assigned target values: the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective (RPO). Zerto Virtual Replication enables a virtual-aware recovery with low values for both the RTO and RPO. In addition, Zerto Virtual Replication enables protecting virtual machines for extended, longer term recovery from an offsite backup.
As well as supporting disaster recovery for enterprises that want to protect their mission-critical applications to a recovery site, as described in the Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guides, using Zerto Virtual Replication enables cloud service providers to offer the following services:
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) – In a DRaaS scenario, the customer may manage and have complete control over the production data or the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) may provide a partial or complete managed service. In either case, the CSP must ensure the availability of the data and adapt as customer infrastructures change.
In-Cloud DR (ICDR) – When customers leverage an ICDR service, the CSP hosts the production and DR sites. The virtual machines (VMs) are typically replicated from one CSP datacenter to another CSP datacenter as a managed service or as managed co-located datacenters. The customers have the ability to interact with their applications as if they were locally hosted.
