In the past, I’ve written about how easy it is to deploy Zerto. That same ease holds true for the upgrade process. In this post, I will walk through an upgrade of the Zerto Virtual Manager and Virtual Replication Appliances. With Zerto, apply the same logic as with any patching you perform in your environment; Stay current with releases. A little house cleaning before we start: ZVM allows for n+1 version upgrades, meaning if you are on version 5.0, you…
On occasion, administrators may need to import and export Zerto Virtual Protection Group (VPG) settings. Whether you need to export settings prior to un-installing Zerto and import settings after re-install or simply need a settings backup, Zerto has a utility to perform this. Let’s walk through the process of exporting and importing Zerto VPGs. Export Virtual Protection Group (VPG) Settings To begin, launch the Zerto Diagnostics application. You can either search your Programs for Zerto Diagnostics or launch the program…
For the final chapter of our Zerto Replication install series, we will create a Virtual Protection Group (VPG) and start replicating virtual machines. As a recap, we have already installed the ZVM, paired the protected and recovery sites, and deployed VRAs. What is a Virtual Protection Group? Virtual Protection Groups essentially enable virtual machines to be affinity grouped. Meaning, you can define a group of vms that need to be recovered together. For example, an application that is comprised of…
For the second part of our Zerto Replication install series, we are going install the Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) as well as pair our protected site to a recovery site. First, let’s look at the Virtual Replication Appliance(s). VRAs are lightweight, Linux-based virtual machines that handle replication between sites. These VRAs are installed on each host that houses either a protected or a recovery virtual machine. As part of replication, the VRAs compress the data before traversing between sites. VRA…
One of my favorite aspects regarding Zerto Replication is the ease of deployment. In this series, we will run through the installation and configuration of Zerto 5.5 for VMware environments. The series will consist of three parts to get Zerto Replication up and running. Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) Install Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) Deployment/Site Pairing Virtual Protection Group (VPG) Setup for Virtual Machines The focus of today’s post is the Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) installation. If you are unfamiliar with…