Just to mention, Zerto picks up on changes and acts on them automatically which I think is what was experienced from the descriptions from OP. This is why when a new disk is attached to a VM, the solution will automatically create a corresponding recovery volume and begin sinking the data from the new disk […]

Hi Mike – Granted it was a long time ago, but I had a user do this very same thing. So long as all of the networking and connectivity is planned to be the same you should be OK – when the person I am thinking of had performed this, all of the VPGs bitmap […]

May be worth noting that Zerto scripts are run from the recovery zerto instances (ZVM or ZCA); there are indeed ways to run cmds within the guest itself from the zerto instance though not natively. For example, if the recovery zerto instances has powercli available (and the recovery site is vcenter) then the recovery script could […]

Hello – this is an area the Zerto product team is looking to explore in the future. Having said that, I would recommend voting on the existing feature request at https://www.zerto.com/myzerto/support/feature-requests/ . Searching for “Support of VMware on AWS” should bring you to the correct one. Thank you! — Justin

So what I understand is that if I replicate the instance to local site itself , I can make use of the journal history maintained at the local site. Yes, the site hosting the VM will also be the recovery site for this VPG. The same VM can be replicated to two different sites and […]