•  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 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
    • Settings Retained when Replicating 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
    • Import Methods for AWS
    • Creating a VPG from vCloud Director to AWS
  • Replication From a Protected Site vCloud Director to Azure
•  Protecting Virtual Machines from a vCenter Server
  • Protecting From a VCenter Server - 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
    • Import Methods for AWS
    • Creating a Virtual Protection Group (VPG) to Protect to AWS
  •  Protecting Virtual Machines on a vCenter Server to Azure
    • Creating a Virtual Protection Group (VPG) to Protect to Azure
•  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
    • 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
    • Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG - When the Recovery Site is AWS
    • Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG - When the Recovery Site is Azure
  • Removing Virtual Machines from a VPG
  • Removing Virtual Machines from a vCD vApp
  • Removing Protected Virtual Machines from the Hypervisor Inventory
  •  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 a VPG 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
  • Upgrading VRAs
  • 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
    • Reverse Protection with One-to-Many
  • 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
    • Mounting the Disk that Contains the Required Files and Folders
    • Downloading the Files and Folders from the Disk
•  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
    • Performance Tab
    • Target Host 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
  • Re-IP Configured As Static Fails During FOL with Reverse Protection
•  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

Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide

Resiliency to vSphere Environment Changes

FailoverTestExecutionStep

FailoverTestStartStep

Move

MoveExecutionStep

MoveStartStep

Restore

RestorePointStep

RestoreVMSettingsStep

RestoreSummaryStep