Planning Your Data Protection

Zerto Analytics includes the Zerto Resource Planner; A resource planning capability that performs continuous monitoring and analysis to determine the required storage and networking resources for your data protection. In addition, it provides a recommendation for the required number of ZCAs when replicating to Azure. Analysis can be performed for any or all VMs within your VMware environment. This capability uses data collected from VMware sites and does not require a new installation or license.

The planning capability delivers visibility and forecasting into:

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Zerto protected VMs from vSphere to a public cloud.

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Zerto protected VMs from vSphere to an on-premise site.

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The cost benefit analysis between deciding whether to protect VMs on-premises or in public cloud.

The resource Planning capability provides overall sizing recommendations, including number of ZCAs, WAN, Total Journal Size and Total Recovery Disk Size.

It also includes VM configuration details (CPU, RAM and Total Size) collected from vCenter, per VM calculated performance counters (Avg. Throughput, Avg. IOPS) and the Required Journal Size estimation per VM.

To begin planning your data protection:

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Click on the Planning tab; the VM Selection window opens.

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From the VM Selection window, select your Source Site VMs and Target Platform for replication.

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Click Save; The Planning view is displayed.