Recommended Best Practices

Zerto recommends the following best practices:

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Install Zerto Virtual Replication on a dedicated virtual machine with a dedicated administrator account and with VMware High Availability (HA) enabled. No other applications should be installed on this machine. If other applications are installed, the Zerto Virtual Manager service must receive enough resources and HA must remain enabled.

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Install a VRA on every host in a cluster so that if protected virtual machines are moved from one host to another, there is always a VRA to protect the moved virtual machines. When protecting a vApp, you must install a VRA on every host in the cluster on both the protected and recovery sites and ensure that DRS is enabled for the clusters.

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Install VRAs using static IP addresses and not DHCP.