Zerto: Can Failover Live Be Used for a Datacenter Migration, Consolidation, or HW Refresh?

The answer is yes, if you really wanted to... however, there's another feature of Zerto that will allow you to perform a much "cleaner" migration of your VM(s) with a more planned approach. This feature may not be easily located, as it's found within the Actions menu in the Zerto UI, but it's actually a very valuable one that basically allows you to [...]

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Configuring AWS for Zerto Virtual Replication

  March 30, 2018
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By now, it’s no secret that the IT Resilience Platform that Zerto has come to be known as offers complete flexibility when it comes to multi-cloud agility.  This agility [...]

Single vCenter, Single ZVM, and Recovering Zerto in a Failure Scenario

  March 5, 2018
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As a follow-up to my previous blog entry titled "Zerto Virtual Manger Outage, Replication, and Self-Healing", which covers a ZVM failure scenario in an environment with paired [...]

Zerto Virtual Manager Outage, Replication, and Self-Healing

  February 14, 2018
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I've decided to explore what happens when a ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager) in either the protected site or the recovery site is down for a period of time, and what happens when [...]

Zerto Automation with PowerShell and REST APIs

  October 26, 2017
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Zerto is simple to install and simple to use, but it gets better with automation!  While performing tasks within the UI can quickly become second nature, you [...]

Configuring NSX Manager for Trend Micro Deep Security 9.6 SP1

  August 1, 2017
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This week was my first undertaking of preparing a vCenter environment for agent-less AV using Trend Micro Deep Security 9.6 SP1 and NSX Manager 6.2.4.  So far, it's been a [...]

Changing a VM’s Recovery VRA When a Host Crashes or Prior to Recovery Site Maintenance

  June 14, 2017
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Yesterday, we had one host in our recovery site PSOD, and that caused all kinds of errors in Zerto, primarily related to VPGs.  In our case, this particular host had both [...]

ESXi 6.0 U2 Host Isolation Following Storage Rescan

  February 17, 2017
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Following an upgrade to ESXi 6.0 U2, this particular issue has popped up a few times, and while we still have a case open with VMware support in an attempt to understand root [...]

Zerto: Dual NIC ZVM

  November 23, 2016
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Something I recently ran into with Zerto (and this can happen for anything else) was the dilemma of being able to protect remote sites that (doesn't happen often) happen to [...]

Protecting a VM with vSphere Replication

  November 3, 2016
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Continuing on from the previous blog about configuring array-based replication with SRM, in this blog post we'll be going through configuring protection of a VM using vSphere [...]

VMware SRM 6.1 – Configure Array-Based Replication

  November 2, 2016
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Introduction   This how-to will walk through the installation and configuration of array-based replication features for VMware Site Recovery Manager [...]