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
Import Methods for AWS
Zerto Import for Data Volumes
Zerto Import for All Volumes
AWS Import
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
Requirements for AWS Environments
The Role of the Journal During Protection
What Happens After the VPG is Defined
Recovery
File and Folder Recovery
Offsite Backups
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
Monitoring a Single VPG
Monitoring Tasks
Monitoring Protected Virtual Machines – The VMs Tab
Monitoring Peer Sites - The SITES Tab
Monitoring Repositories – The SETUP Tab – The REPOSITORIES Tab
Monitoring Offsite Backups – The OFFSITE BACKUP Tab
VPGs Tab
VMs Tab
Managing VPGs
Editing a VPG
Modifying the Journal Size Hard Limit
Modifying the Retention Period for Offsite Backups
Pausing the Protection of a VPG
Forcing the Synchronization of a VPG
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
Example Scripts
Exporting and Importing VPG Definitions
VPG Statuses and Synchronization Triggers
VPG Statuses
VPG Synchronization Triggers
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 Unpairing Sites
Pair to Another Site
Unpairing Sites
Overview of Disaster Recovery Operations
The Failover Test Operation
The Move Operation
The Failover Operation
The Restore File Operation
Advanced Site Configuration
Site Settings
Seeing What is Licensed
About the Zerto Virtual Replication Version
Testing Recovery to AWS
The Test Failover Process
Starting and Stopping Failover Tests
After Starting a Test, What Happens?
Viewing Test Results
Live Disaster Recovery Testing
Basic Verification – User Traffic Is Not Run against the Recovered VMs
Migrating a VPG to AWS
The Move Process
Moving Protected Virtual Machines to a Remote Site
Managing Failover to AWS
The Failover Process
Initiating a Failover
What Happens When the Protected Site is Down
Initiating a Failover During a Test
Cloning a VPG to AWS
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
Failing Back from AWS
Failing Back a Windows Machine to a VMware ESXi Host
Failing Back a Linux Instance to a VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V Host
Prerequisites to Set Up a PC to Failback a Recovered Linux Machine from AWS
Failing Back a Recovered Linux Machine from AWS
Offsite Backup Configuration
Creating an Offsite Backup Repository
Editing an Offsite Backup Repository
Zerto Virtual Replication Reports
Recovery Reports
Resources Report
Using a REST API to Generate a Report
Details Tab
VPG Performance
Backup Report
Troubleshooting
Ensuring the Zerto Virtual Manager is Running
Troubleshooting: “Needs Configuration” Problems
Troubleshooting VRA Problems
Zerto Virtual Replication Diagnostics Utility
Collecting Zerto Virtual Replication Logs
Using Remote Log Collection
Using the Zerto Diagnostics application
Understanding the Logs
Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide
Understanding the Logs
FailoverTest
FailoverTestExecutionStep
FailoverTestStartStep
Move
MoveExecutionStep
MoveStartStep
Failover
FailoverExecutionStep
FailoverStartStep