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    • Forums can be great…

      for both customers and suppliers. As a guy whose been doing the VMware thing since 2004 I feel that one of the most valuable sources of information is VMware’s community forums. I can often find answers there must faster than if I put in a support ticket. I think suppliers (in this case Zerto employees) […]

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    • Incorrect Timestamp

      In the Monitoring tab under Alerts I have a VRA0006 that is at a time in the future of 06/02/2018. there are others time stamps of 04/02/2018 . I am not sure why this is occuring.

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    • January 26, 2024
    • issues after Palo-Alto firewall installation

      since we put a Palo-Alto “intelligent” firewall in our target site, i’m seeing a huge number of site disconnect events followed within seconds of a reconnect message. the issue is almost certainly with the firewall config but wondering if any one has seen an issue like this before. my network guy is stumped. e.g. <span […]

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    • June 22, 2023
    • VM Snapshots

      Hi. What’s the effect of snapshotting a protected VM? We are looking to do an in place OS upgrade on a VM but need a rollback plan.   Thanks

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    • June 20, 2023
    • When do you need a new ZVM?

      So I have three vCenters with a ZVM in each.  I use it to replicate between three main sites.  I also have a few remote locations that I am going to start using on a temporary basis.  What determines whether or not you need a new ZVM?  These are hosts in a vCenter that already […]

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    • April 6, 2023
    • Zerto plug-in for vSphere Web Client

      In reading several documents available from Zerto that detail the configuration of the Zero plug-in for the vSphere Web Client, the instructions reference the following procedure: To set up the vSphere Web Client to work with to work with Zerto Virtual Replication: 1. When the vSphere Web Client service is installed on a Microsoft Windows […]

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    • March 24, 2023
    • Exclude large volume from replication

      We have a few vm’s with very large volumes attached (in the 2TB range) and would like to protect the OS drive but not the cache drive(s). Is there a way to set up a VPG so that it excludes these drives? Setting them as Temp still causes the VPG to want to do an […]

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    • February 3, 2023
    • Powershell cmdlet for Failover in Live environment

      Hi, I am looking for Powershell cmdlet for Failover in Live environment. There is a start-FailoverTest but it does only the test. Is there is any cmdlet for Live environment. I thought it should be start-Failover – But cmdlet doesn’t exist. I am using the version 4.5.  Any help will be appreciated…    

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    • January 24, 2023
    • VM Version question

      As we start to prepare for the Meltdown and Spectre remediation steps that need to be addressed I started to compile a list of virtual appliances that have a VM Version less than version 9 (there are vMotion issues once the patches start getting applied to the Hosts if your VM Version is below 9).  […]

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    • January 9, 2023
    • Multiple vCenter replication pairs

      Hello all, Could you guys please let me know how many Zerto nodes are required for the following setup: Number of sites: 3 (A, B, C). All sites are considered as active and recovery sites for one of the other two. Number of vCenter servers per site: 2 ( Management, Compute) I am planning to […]

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    • January 4, 2023
    • ZVM With Multiple Peers

      Ihave some question about Zerto 5.0 Feature In Zerto 5.0, one vm can be have maximum 3 VPGs, in local Site or another site, and how about ZVM. Can be ZVM have 2 peers ZVM, like picture in attachment.

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    • December 1, 2022
    • Invalid Zerto Certs

      As part of my ZVM installations of 5u1 SCOM is alerting on invalid Zerto Certificates due to a partialchain. I’ve installed our own trusted certs per Zerto procedures that allow for secure web interface access to the Zerto console. I don’t know why the Zerto install would be installing an invalid cert? Body of SCOM […]

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    • November 7, 2022