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Zerto Upgrade Recommendation – IO Errors

Zerto Upgrade Recommendation – IO Errors

Today, Zerto released an Upgrade Bulletin regarding an issue with possible data corruption when Zerto incurs IO errors. The IO errors in question are received when a customer’s storage array controller becomes unresponsive or fails. This typically would occur during an upgrade in an environment that leverages high availability on their storage controllers. When the controller fails and the transfer between controllers occur, there is a brief period where Zerto incurs said IO errors. These errors appear to be different…

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File Level Restores from Zerto Journal

File Level Restores from Zerto Journal

Today I wanted to walk-through a Zerto journal file restore. This feature has been available since version 4.5 but fills such a crucial need in many organizations. The recovery process allows you restore a file or folder utilizing any checkpoint in the journal. When compared to traditional nightly backups, this can be a game changer when it comes to data loss. With Zerto RPOs typically in seconds, you can granularly restore data back to the moment right before data corruption or loss….

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Enabling Zerto Plugin in vSphere Web Client 6.5

Enabling Zerto Plugin in vSphere Web Client 6.5

If you are a Zerto Replication user and have upgraded your VMware environment to 6.5, you may find yourself missing the Zerto plugin that was available in the vSphere C# client. To get the Zerto plugin to display within the vSphere Web Client, we will need to edit the webclient.properties file within vCenter to enable script plug-in support. I think it goes without saying, but when you are editing any vCenter files, ensure you have a current backup. In this process,…

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Zerto Virtual Machine Hardware Support

Zerto Virtual Machine Hardware Support

Quick byte for today; Last night, an issue arose while performing a VMware 6.5 upgrade in an environment that also leverages Zerto for replication. Zerto had been upgraded in early January to Version 5.0 Update 1 Patch 1 (Build 050111005) in preparation for the VMware upgrade. After virtual machine hardware was upgraded to version 13 last night, Zerto started sending compatibility alerts. The alerts stated that the Hardware version of the protected VMs are not supported on the recovery site….

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