The Clone Process

Use the Clone operation to create a copy of the VPG virtual machines on the recovery site. The virtual machines on the protected site remain protected and live.

The Clone operation has the following basic steps:

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Creating the cloned disks at the recovery site with the data from the journal to the specified checkpoint.

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Creating the virtual machines at the recovery site in the move/failover network and attach each virtual machine to its relevant cloned disks, configured to the checkpoint specified for the clone.

Note:

The virtual machines are created without CD-ROM or DVD drives, even if the protected virtual machines have CD-ROM or DVD drives. (CD-ROM is not relevant for vSphere environments).

The cloned machines are named with the names of the protected machines, with the timestamp of the checkpoint used to create the clone. The cloned virtual machines are not powered on and are not protected by Zerto.