Protecting Virtual Machines from a vCenter Server

When the protected site is vCenter Server, protection can be set up to cope with the following situations:

• A disaster, enabling recovery to a point in time in the 30 days prior to the disaster.
• The need to retain files saved either daily or weekly for a period of up to one year. The same wizard is used to set up both disaster recovery and the retention policy.

Use any of the following procedures depending on the site to which you need to recover:

Protected Site Recovery Site See Procedure...
vCenter Server To a different vCenter Server site Replication From a Protected Site vCenter Server to a Recovery Site vCenter Server
To the same vCenter Server site (local replication) Replication From a Protected vCenter Server to the Same Site
To a different site using the Client Console or VMware Web Client Protecting a Single Virtual Machine (Via the VMware Web Client or Client Console)
To a Hyper-V site Replication From a Protected Site vCenter Server To a Recovery Site Hyper-V Host
To a Amazon Web Services (AWS) site Replication From a Protected Site vCenter Server to a Recovery Site AWS
To a Microsoft Azure site Replication From a Protected Site vCenter Server to a Recovery Site Microsoft Azure

Requirements for vSphere Environments

Before protecting your virtual machines, review Zerto Virtual Replication - Prerequisites & Requirements for vSphere Environments

Considerations

• If one or both of the sites have vCloud Director installed, Protecting Virtual Machines to and From vCloud Director.
• Any virtual machine that is supported by the hypervisor can be protected. When recovering to a different hypervisor, the protected virtual machines must also be supported by the recovery hypervisor.
• You cannot protect the following virtual machines:
• A virtual machines with IDE devices.
• A VM VRA which is a virtual machine with a VRA installed on it.
• A virtual machine on a host that has no VRA installed.
• A virtual machine that was created after performing a Failover Test.
• A virtual machine with VMware Fault Tolerance.
• A virtual machine that is connected to DVDs.
• A virtual machine with no disks attached.
• A virtual machine that was not removed from the inventory.
• A virtual machine that has RDM attached to a Buslogic controller.