Quick Start to Zerto in vSphere Environments

Zerto is an IT resilience platform to provide business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) in a virtual environment, enabling the replication of mission-critical applications and data as quickly as possible and with minimal data loss. When devising a recovery plan, these two objectives, minimum time to recover and maximum data to recover, are assigned target values: the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective (RPO). Zerto enables a virtual-aware recovery with low values for both the RTO and RPO. In addition, Zerto enables protecting virtual machines for extended, longer term, recovery using portocala.

This document provides a quick guide to setting up Zerto in a VMware vCenter Server environment to protect virtual machines.

Introduction

Recommended Installation Best Practices

Installation

Registering the Zerto License

Installing Virtual Replication Appliances

Pairing Sites to Enable Replicating From One Site to Another Site

Setting Up the Second Site

Enabling Replication to the Same Site

Protecting Virtual Machines

Testing Disaster Recovery