How to Add Virtual Machines to an Existing VPG
Use the following procedure to add a virtual machine to an existing VPG.
To add a virtual machine to an existing VPG:
1. In the VPGs tab in the Zerto User Interface, select the VPG and click MORE > Edit VPG. You can also select the VPG to display the VPG details and click EDIT VPG.
The Edit VPG wizard is displayed, enabling you to edit the VPG, including adding and removing virtual machines from the VPG.
2. In the VMs step, select the virtual machines to add and click the arrow pointing right to include these machines in the VPG. A VPG can include virtual machines that are not yet protected and virtual machines that are already protected.
■ You can view protected virtual machines by clicking Select VMs in the Advanced (Multi Target) section.
Virtual machines protected in the maximum number of VPGs are not displayed in the Select VMs dialog.
Note: Protecting virtual machines in several VPGs is enabled only if both the protected site and the recovery site, as well as the VRAs installed on these sites, are of version 5.0 and higher.
3. To define the boot order of the VPGs, click DEFINE BOOT ORDER.
4. Configure the settings for the new virtual machines in the same way that you configured the other virtual machines in the VPG, when you created the VPG.
5. Click DONE.
The virtual machines are added to the VPG. This process may take a few minutes. While the VPG definition is being updated, you cannot perform any operation on the VPG, such as adding a checkpoint, editing its properties, or recovering it.
After the VPG definition has been updated, the protected and recovery sites are then synchronized. During the synchronization period, the Protection Status displayed in the VPGs tab of the Zerto User Interface is: Meeting SLA n/m VMs where n is the number of virtual machines that were originally in the VPG, and m is the total number of virtual machines in the VPG, including the virtual machines that are currently being synced. While the virtual machines that were added are being synced, the VPG can be failed over but the failover only includes the original virtual machines in the VPG.
When the sync process for a virtual machine is complete, Zerto Virtual Manager tags the first checkpoint that includes a new virtual machine with: VM ’XXX’ is fully synced where XXX is the name of the virtual machine that was synced.
When you perform a recovery operation using one of these checkpoints, or any later checkpoint, all the virtual machines that have completed syncing will be recovered.
If the virtual machine is added to a VPG replicating to a resource pool in VMware vSphere environments, Zerto checks that the additional virtual machine doesn’t exceed the resource pool capacity, such that the sum of the virtual machine reservation is less than or equal to the resource pool CPU and storage settings.
