Protecting a Red Hat Cluster with the Zerto Orchestrator

This section describes:

Creating VPGs To Protect a Red Hat Cluster
Performing a Recovery Operation

Creating VPGs To Protect a Red Hat Cluster

Create two VPGs, one for each node in the cluster.

a. Create dedicated eager zeroed thick disk VMDKs on the recovery site.

The target VMDKs must be the same size as the protected VMDKs.

b. In the STORAGE step, select Preseeded volume and enter the disk names of the disks you created in step a in the Datastore field.

After the VPG is created, preseed the volumes of the RHEL cluster into eager zeroed thick disks on the recovery (target) site.

For detailed instructions on how to create VPGs, see the Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide VMware vSphere Environment.

Performing a Recovery Operation

To perform a recovery operation:

1. Follow the procedure to do a failover or move as described in the Zerto Virtual Manager Administration Guide VMware vSphere Environment.

In the EXECUTION PARAMETERS step, make sure that reverse protection is not selected.

2. After the recovery process has ended, manually delete both VPGs in the recovery site. This can be done in the Zerto User Interface.
3. Optionally, do the following:
a. Recreate the RHEL cluster in the disaster recovery site.
b. Protect the RHEL cluster with Zerto.
Note: A move without reverse protection deletes the virtual machines on the original — protected — site.