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    • VMWare 5.5 adding new machine disk issue

      We are running VMWare 5.5 and when we try to add a new machine to Zerto we get an error message that looks like this: Error Virtual machines include disks that cannot be protected to a vSphere recovery site. To protect the VMs, the problematic disks must either be removed from the VMs or reconfigured to […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
      Replies: 2
    • July 26, 2021
    • Subnet Best Practice for Service Providers

      Can anyone give some advise as to the best practice for subnets/ip’s of the VRAs, ZVM and ZCM in relation to vSphere subnets? Specifically, 1.Should the VRAs be on the same subnet as the ESXi host management? 2. Should the VRA’s be on the same subnet as the ZVM ? 3. Should the ZVM be […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 5
    • February 26, 2021
    • How to troubleshoot connectivity errors

      Hey guys, I’m getting frequent error from the ZVM similar to this: <table width=”832″> <tbody> <tr> <td width=”832″>Alert turned on at 4/19/2017 6:15:50 AM: The Zerto Virtual Manager is not connected to site XYZ (10.X.XX.XX:9081).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alert turned on at 4/19/2017 3:24:59 AM: The Zerto Virtual Manager is not connected to site XYZ (10.X.XX.XX:9081).</td> […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 4
    • October 19, 2020
    • Zerto Virtual Manager is not connected to VRA

      I create a Azure IaaS VM, installed Zerto, added license and paired the site with on-prem. Now I would like to add a VPG and protect machines but this wizard that I run from my internal Zerto manager states that the site in azure is disconnected. On the manager in Azure I see the following […]

      in: Microsoft Azure

    • People: 1
      Replies: 3
    • September 22, 2020
    • Zerto Trial License

      Can we install zerto in lab environment (VMware workstation), as because no trial license is provided when I downloaded the zerto software.

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
      Replies: 2
    • March 4, 2020
    • VPG to VApp dependuncy

      Hello, With the new 5.5 release of Zerto, is the VPG to VApp (VCD) dependency still in effect as with earlier versions? Do we now have the capability to select VMs from different VApps and assign to the same VPG?

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
      Replies: 5
    • January 16, 2020
    • Time incorrect on failed over vm's

      Aloha, Whenever I fail-over a vm, it boots with a time 10 hours into the future. It just so happens Hawai`i is UTC -10. The hosts receiving the vm’s are Dell 930’s. In the DRAC i set the timezone to Pacific/Honolulu. I also made sure the time in the BIOS was set properly. This worked […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 3
      Replies: 2
    • October 17, 2019
    • Zerto and Veeam

      We’re in the process of planning Zerto installation, but would want to know the following: We’re using Veeam as a backup and replication software. Since our databases are quite large it takes time to back up them up. My concern is: If a machine is in the process of being backed up by Veeam, then […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 4
      Replies: 3
    • August 5, 2019
    • change sizing of protected VM

      Got an interesting situation. Customer of mine powered down a Zerto protected VM, added CPU, RAM and a new disk, and now its getting all sorts of errors in VMware, in-guest and in Zerto. VMware: A specified parameter was not correct: path Registering Virtual Machine on destination host. In-guest disk manager: The request could not […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 5
      Replies: 4
    • May 24, 2019
    • Journal History function and concept

      Dear all Hi although I was read some documents but actually I am so confused in many parts during wizard configuration for example when I set Journal History = 1 Hours Is that means it will keep restore points maximum for one hours ago ? actually what happen will be do after 1Hours ?   […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • April 30, 2019
    • protect SQL AlwaysOn group

      Hello, Is it supported/recommended to protect a SQL Always On group with Zerto?  Looking into deploying Always On groups instead of failover cluster with active/passive replicas in the same datacenter.  For DR, assuming you did not want to or could not add another replica, would you protect the primary replica VM with Zerto?  Would it […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 5
      Replies: 4
    • April 22, 2019
    • Files corrupted after failover

      Hi, Has anyone ever faced files corruption after the failover from one site to another? We recently migrated one server from one datacentre to another using Zerto and after migration some files were corrupted on FS level. Virtual machine was up and running, but some files inside of VM were missing or corrupted. I was […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 4
      Replies: 3
    • March 21, 2019