• Proper way to patch esx host.
    • vCloud 8 1 2

      Hello Now that vCloud Director 8 has been released, will Zerto be supporting is for service providers using it with Zerto to provide DRaaS?  If so, is running vCD8 with vSphere 6 underneath supported? Dave

      in: VMware

    • People: 15
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    • December 7, 2016
    • automated VRA deployment; DRS rules

      Greetings, I was directed to the “automating Zerto with powershell and REST API” document to assist with my deployment. Specifically page 68 deploying VRA’s. My ZVM’s are not setup yet so I can’t test the script. If anybody has tried this script, do you know what if anything it sets for the VRA hostname? All […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • December 6, 2016
    • Protect SQL System Disk Only

      Our SQL team has their own process for data recovery and they would like us to only protect their System Drives.  The storage team does not wish to house all of the SQL data at the recovery site, if it is not going to be used for recovery as it just takes up space.  I […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • December 6, 2016
    • Running a FailoverTest from Powershell?

      I’m trying to run a FailoverTest of a VPG through the RESTful API from Powershell and hitting problems I’m creating authentication headers OK, querying a list of VPGs, looping through to find the VpgIdentifer of the required VPG OK and then returning a list of Checkpoints for the required VPG. I select the latest one to […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 4
      Replies: 5
    • December 1, 2016
    • Moving journal data

      Hello I’m running Zerto with vCloud Director and have customers replicating in from their onsite vSphere clusters in a DRaaS setup. We have our Zerto Journal data on a dedicated datastore.  I need to move this to a new storage array so needs to be moved to a new datastore.  I can make the new […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 3
      Replies: 4
    • November 28, 2016
    • Test failover time period

      Hi I am new here, sorry if I post duplicate question. I want to ask if I have a VM with a 7 days protection by Zerto, and I trigger a test failover, is there any time limitation of stop the failover test? What happen if I test over 7 days, will it be impact […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2016
    • Best Practices for Oracle on Windows 2012

      Hi all.  I’ve read the Best Practices for Oracle whitepaper by Zerto.  It seems there are 2 means by which to ensure a consistent database is available on the recovery side:  1) Use Powershell scripting to place the Oracle database into Hot Backup Mode and run such a script as often as possible and 2) […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 17, 2016
    • SQL Always On

      We are just tossing ideas around with our new data center layouts.  One idea that was suggested is splitting our SQL always on cluster between two data centers instead of using Zerto for replication.  While we understand there is some advanced configurations that would need to be done to prevent an accidental failover – or […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 17, 2016
    • Azure ZVM login issue

      I have created a Zerto VM from the Azure marketplace and logged in and have Zerto 5 installed, but now when I try to log into the ZVM page it tells me bad credentials and that I should use a FQDN for my username. Since this is a VM in Azure, I don’t believe a […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • November 17, 2016
    • MSCS Cluster – IP Change During Failover

      Hello During recovery of MSCS Cluster ( Active node/system), system failed over to DR site without any issue, but the cluster service did not come up. After reading through the documents, i see Zerto recommends preconfigure listeners on both the protected and recovery IP ranges, each node with a dedicated heartbeat NIC. is there any document […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 16, 2016