Benefits to Cloud Service Providers
The cloud service provider must be able to support multiple organizations whether the organization site is a VMware vCenter or vCloud Director site, or a Microsoft Hyper-V site. The Zerto Cloud Manager enables consistent management regardless of the type of site, so disaster recovery planning and management is simplified using infrastructure that supports these environments.
Zerto Virtual Replication makes disaster recovery a valuable addition to the services a cloud service provider can offer, either DRaaS or ICDR. Zerto Cloud Manager enables the cloud service provider to manage the service for all its customers. The following are just some of the main benefits.
Hardware Agnostic
Because Zerto Virtual Replication software manages recovery of virtual machines and virtual disks in the hypervisor layer, it does not matter what hardware is used in either the protected or recovery sites; it can be from the same vendor or different vendors. As long as Zerto Virtual Replication supports the storage device, for example, SCSI with vSphere virtual machines, any storage device can be used. With Zerto Virtual Replication the logical storage is separated from the physical storage so that the vendor and type of actual storage hardware do not need to be considered.
Fully Scalable
Zerto Virtual Replication sits in the hypervisor level and enables defining software-only Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) on each host to manage the replication of virtual machines on that host. Increasing the number of hosts is handled by defining a new VRA on each new host. There is no need to install additional software to handle additional hosts or virtual machines and no need to consider additional hardware acquisitions.
Multi-tenant Support
Cloud service providers have to build a multi-tenant environment for their many customer environments. Each of these customer environments must be completely separate and secure. Zerto Virtual Replication is designed to be multi-tenant.