Flow for a Disaster Recovery Operation to Azure
Virtual machines are protected in VPGs, which are defined in the protected site. Once a VPG is created, Zerto Virtual Replication creates a copy of the protected virtual machines under the management of a Virtual Replication Appliance, VRA, on the Azure recovery site. The data managed by the VRA is saved in a storage account.
When a recovery operation is performed, the Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) creates the following:
■ A copy of the virtual machine disks in a dedicated container under the same storage account.
■ A virtual machine in Azure, under a newly created Resource Group, with the copied disks attached to it.
■ Network Interfaces Cards (NICs) for each NIC of the protected virtual machine.
Once this is done, the ZVM promotes the data from the journal to the virtual machine disks.
For information on disaster recovery flows from Azure to on-premise platforms see:
The following references the procedures to recover virtual machines protected in a VPG: