• Journal Location
    • VMX files

      Hi, We’re browsing the replica datastores and we’re able to identify the .vmdk (in Z-VRA-hostname folder) and journal files (in ZertoVolumes folder) . But we are not able to find the .vmx files for each virtual machine. does anyone know where we can find these .vmx files?   thanks in advance

      in: VMware

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    • December 17, 2018
    • Failover RecoverTime much longer than FailoverTest

      We have an 11 VM VPG that will become accessible relatively quickly when we run our failover test.  When we run an actual failover it takes about 90 minutes for all 11 VMs to come online. Can someone help me understand the different under hood on the recovery site when we run a  failover test […]

      in: VMware

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    • December 17, 2018
    • Journal history question

      I am having an issue with 2 VM’s that mention that the Journal history SLA cannot be met because the Journal size is not large enough. If I decide to lower the Journal History setting to several hours will I still be able to failover in the following scenario? The production environment is lost for […]

      in: General Discussion

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    • December 17, 2018
    • Offsite Clone failure

      Hi, We’re trying to make an offsite clone of a VPG (4 servers, one of them of 8,5TB) and we always get an error after a lot of hours: “Clone failure. Error attaching the disk 3 times”. We’re not able to find more information about that. has someone get this kind of problems using offsite […]

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    • December 17, 2018
    • Using the VMware Update Manager with Zerto

      We are currently trying to update our vSphere infrastructure using the vMware Update Manager. The typical behavior when we remediate the host or cluster should be that the host is send to maintenance mode and then patching should take place. But having Zertos vRAs running on the ESXi-hosts, seems to prevent the hosts from being able […]

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    • December 14, 2018
    • Zerto scripts using encrypted passwords automation

      For the life of me I can not get these Zerto scripts to run with a password file that I have created using ConvertTo-SecureString commands listed here per Zerto scripting reference doc… https://www.pdq.com/blog/secure-password-with-powershell-encrypting-credentials-part-1/ “SecretPassword” | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File “C:\support\zerto\scripts\zertpass.txt” I then call this zertpass.txt file using… $ZertoPassword = Get-Content “C:\support\zerto\scripts\zertpass.txt” | […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

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    • December 13, 2018
    • Site Peering with different ZVM vesion

      The scenario, I have two different versions (5.5 & 6.5) of Zerto Virtual Replication Instances in the environment. The ZVM 5.5 instance configured on VMware vSphere 6.5 & vCSA 6.5 – Production Site Another ZVM instance support VMWare vSphere 6.5 & vCSA 6.7 – DR Site The questions are: Can two different versions of ZVM […]

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    • December 7, 2018
    • DNS Update After Failover

      Hi, When we failover between sites, we update the IP address of the machines. It’s all working very well. However, some remote sites take some time to update DNS with the new addresses. What do others do around this issue?   Thanks, Ciarán

      in: General Discussion

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    • December 7, 2018
    • Journal Storage Datastore Views

      is there some other point or gui view that show the amount of data store usage/size and assignment of the journal data store?  the only place I’ve been able to see it is in the ‘edit vpg’ > replication tab > VM settings > ‘Journal Data store’ column.  there seems to be an exportable xls […]

      in: VMware

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    • December 6, 2018
    • Duplicate VRA

      looking at a few vmware data stores, I’m seeing Duplicate VRA’s (not VRAH shadow vra’s helpers) on different datastores in the recovery site. so two questions, which one (VRA) is active and can I deleted the copy?

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    • December 4, 2018
    • Testing subnet

      I’ve read a bit in the documentation about test networking, but I wanted to ask the community what they have configured for themselves when it comes to a test network. We’re an infoblox shop, with two DCs testing failover in our VCenters that do not utilize nsx or any kind of spread network.  So if […]

      in: VMware

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    • December 4, 2018
    • verion 5.5 network requirements

      In an effort to meat our SLAs I”m trying to get load balancing working across our network to utilize more than the 100Meg pipe we’re currently using. When I get setup to using the load balancer on our fortigate flows and nmap results all look right but the dr site continued to say it was […]

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    • November 29, 2018