• VMware to Hyper-V MOVE leaves VM in a non HA state
    • Migrating vcenter to a new server

      I will be moving our vcenter to a new server pretty soon my question with zeto what is involved. Will zerto need to be reconfigured from scratch, is there export/import features, does license need to be reactivated

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • December 8, 2015
    • Zerto and Exchange DAG's

      We are currently running Zerto against 2007 and it is working well. we are now upgrading to 2013 and are looking to pull a design together. we like the sounds of the local DAG model, so if 1 server goes down the other kicks in automatically with zero data loss and no downtime. BUT what […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 30, 2015
    • How to introduce new target ESXi hosts

      I’m running Zerto v3.5-U7 with one protected site and one recovery site, with a ZVM server in each site. I am doing an ESXi server refresh in the recovery site because my existing ESXi hosts are getting old and need replacing. I’m not sure what the exact terminology I should be using for my question […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 3
      Replies: 7
    • November 18, 2015
    • Please update KB on MyZerto with Hyper-V info

      All you do is give info on VMware in most articles, please update all KBs as relevant with info for Hyper-V. For example ZVM guest OS interactions. I want to know how ZVM interacts with Hyper-V Integration Services, for example. On that topic, why does Zerto Hyper-V ZVM always say that it cannot find Integration […]

      in: Cross-Hypervisor

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • November 10, 2015
    • Zerto and Simplivity

      Does anyone here have any experience running Zerto on top of a Simplivity VMWare solution?  I have a customer who wants to use Zerto to replicate between two on-premise locations.  One is simplivity and the other is a traditional server/SAN setup.     I cant get an answer from Simplivity on whether it will work.  They say […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 3
      Replies: 2
    • November 4, 2015
    • Zerto evaluation

      Hi All I’m evaluating Zerto for a customer Business Continuity project. The solution involves one vcenter with no BC hosts (to protect only against a storage outages). I read that VRA use network and a local Journal sistem for a asyncronous replica , but what about using same hosts for replications? Does VRA uses directly […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 3
      Replies: 2
    • September 24, 2015
    • vSphere Cluster Maintenance Mode Script

      I took an old rolling reboot script that Joe Keegan at http://infrastructureadventures.com/2011/12/28/powercli-script-for-vsphere-cluster-rolling-reboot/ posted a few years ago and modified it to add in the VRA functions and added the ability to scan and patch the hosts as well. I’m tempted to ask Joe if we can upload this to Github and add in more functionality later. Requirements: The VUM […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 1
      Replies: 0
    • September 23, 2015
    • VM Performance

      Hi All, We had 2 VMs on 2 dedicated hosts failover to 2 dedicated hosts in DR for testing The VMs appeared to failover correctly and all appeared ok but after a period of time the performance was awful to the point where the servers completely froze Both VMs had 96GB RAM and the hosts […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • September 21, 2015
    • Announcement – IT Central Station

      IT Central Station is pleased to announce that Zerto product — Zerto Virtual Replication and others — are now featured on IT Central Station http://www.itcentralstation.com, the Yelp or TripAdvisor for enterprise technology products. We would love to see some of your community forum users share their thoughts on Zerto product at IT Central Station. It’s also a great […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • September 9, 2015
    • VPGs still initializing

      I wish there is a column the tells you how much time left before a new VPG finishes its “Initializing” state. Create new VPG, after initial flurry of WAN data transfer, the VPG is still showing “Initializing” but WAN activity has stopped. After leaving it overnight, I still see VPG protection status as “Initializing” Is […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
      Replies: 1
    • September 7, 2015