Is your Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan ready for the cloud? Remember the days when implementing DR/BC meant having identical storage infrastructure at the remote site? The capital costs were outrageous! Plus, the products could be complex and time consuming to setup.
Virtualization has changed the way we view DR/BC. Today, it’s faster and easier than ever to setup. Zerto allows us to implement replication at the hypervisor layer. It is purpose built for virtual environments. The best part: it’s a software-only solution that is array agnostic and enterprise class. What does that mean? Gone are the days of having an identical storage infrastructure at the DR site. Instead, you replicate to your favorite storage—it doesn’t matter what you have. It allows you to reduce hardware costs by leveraging existing or lower-cost storage at the replication site.
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How does it work? You install the Zerto Virtual Manager on a Windows server at the primary and remote sites. Once installed, the rest of the configuration is completed through the Zerto tab in VMware vCenter. Simply select the Virtual Machines you want to protect and that’s about it. It supports fully automated failover and failback and the ability to test failover, while still protecting the production environment. Customers are able to achieve RTOs of minutes and RPOs of seconds through continuous replication and journal-based, point-in-time recovery.
Not only does Zerto protect your data, it also provides complete application protection and recovery through virtual protection groups.
Application protection:
- Fully supports VMware VMotion, Storage VMotion, DRS, and HA
- Journal-based point-in-time protection
- Group policy and configuration
- VSS Support
Don’t have a replication site? No problem. You can easily replicate your VMs to a cloud provider and spin them up in the event of a disaster.
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