Setting Up DRaaS
Customers requiring DRaaS use the following procedure to set up their sites to enable connecting to the cloud service provider offering DRaaS:
1. | Install Zerto on each customer site where there are virtual machines that need protecting. |
2. | Install VRAs. |
For details about installing Zerto and VRAs, refer to the Zerto Virtual Replication Installation Guide.
The cloud service provider does the following:
1. | Defines the customer in Zerto Cloud Manager as a Zerto organization, ZORG, as described in Setting Up DRaaS. |
2. | Defines a Zerto Cloud Connector for the ZORG to secure the cloud service provider networks from the customer network and to secure each customer network from other customer networks, as described in Setting Up DRaaS. |
The customer pairs to the cloud service provider, using the IP address used in the definition of the Zerto Cloud Connector.
Important: The CSP must pair their customer’s ZVMs with the IP address of their ZCC in order to view the sites within Zerto Cloud Control and Zerto Analytics.
The customer can manage disaster recovery in one of the following ways:
• | Via the Zerto User Interface, described in Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide. |
• | Via the Zerto Self-service Portal, described in Setting Up DRaaS. |
Note: | In case of a disaster, when a failover is required, the customer must use the Zerto Self-service Portal to access the cloud service provider recovery site in order to perform the failover, or request that the cloud service provider perform the failover. In either case, the customer needs access to the recovery site to continue operations with the recovered virtual machines. |
The following diagram shows the basic architecture when the cloud service provider provides disaster recovery as a service for the customer (DRaaS). In this case the customer uses a VMware vSphere environment but it could also use a Microsoft SCVMM environment.