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
Enabling Replication to the Same Site
WAN Sizing
Collecting Data Characteristics for VMs
Calculating the Estimated Bandwidth Requirement
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 Hyper-V
Protecting Virtual Machines to Hyper-V Hosts
Protecting Virtual Machines to the Same Site
When to Replicate to the Same Site
Protecting Virtual Machines to a Recovery Site VMware vCenter Server
Protecting Virtual Machines to a Recovery Site VMware vCloud Director
Protecting Virtual Machines from Hyper-V Hosts to AWS
Import Methods for AWS
Creating a Virtual Protection Group
Protecting Virtual Machines from Hyper-V Hosts 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
Grid View
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 Storage – The SETUP Tab – The STORAGE 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
Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG
Removing Virtual Machines from a VPG
Removing Protected Virtual Machines from the Hypervisor Inventory
Modifying Protected Virtual Machine Volumes
Changing the Recovery Storage for a Protected Virtual Machine
Pausing the Protection of a VPG
Forcing the Synchronization of a VPG
Handling a VPG with in an Error State
Deleting a VPG
Deleting a VPG When the Status is Deleting
Running an Unscheduled
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 VRAs
Installing a VRA
Upgrading VRAs
Editing VRA Settings
Changing a Recovery VRA
Uninstalling VRAs
Handling a VRA in an Error State (Ghost VRA)
Managing Protection When Moving a Host to a Different Cluster
Managing a Zerto Virtual Manager
Checking 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
Pairing to Another Site and Unpairing 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
After Starting a Test, What Happens?
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 the 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
Protection Over Time by Site
Recovery Reports
Resources Report
Using a REST API to Generate a Report
Details Tab
Performance Tab
Target Host Tab
Monthly Usage Report
VPG Performance
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
Understanding the Logs
Zerto Virtual Replication and Microsoft Hyper‑V Features
Stopping and Restarting the SCVMM
Dynamic Disks
Hyper-V High Availability (HA)
Clusters
Failover Clustering and Fault Tolerance
Pass-through Disks
Performance and Resource Optimization or Dynamic Optimization
Multi-Pathing and Storage Failures
Availability Sets and Anti-Affinity Rules
Live Migration
Quick Storage Migration
SCVMM and Host Maintenance Mode
User Management
Hyper-V Replica
Restart Zerto Virtual Manager After SCVMM Upgrade
Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide
Restart Zerto Virtual Manager After SCVMM Upgrade
FailoverTestExecutionStep
FailoverTestStartStep
Move
MoveExecutionStep
MoveStartStep
Failover
FailoverExecutionStep
FailoverStartStep
Restore
RestorePointStep
RestoreVMSettingsStep
RestoreSummaryStep