• Windows Upgrade
    • 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

    • People: 2
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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 […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 3
    • 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

    • People: 2
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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

    • People: 1
      Replies: 0
    • 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?

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
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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

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • 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 […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
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    • November 29, 2018
    • VMware to Hyper-V MOVE leaves VM in a non HA state

      Hi, When we MOVE VM’s using Zerto 6.5U1 onto Hyper-V the resulting VM’s are left in a state that precludes them from HA live migration internally on the Cluster. The reason for this seems to be that “Expected utilization” during Live Migration is set to some  weird values. When we restore the “Expected Utilization” to […]

      in: Cross-Hypervisor

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2018
    • VRA issue post VRA VMDK migration to another LUN

      Team, Greetings, We have enabled SDRS to VM disks, VRA disks are getting migrated to other LUNS and due to this the VRA is not getting started once its powered off.  I need to disable the VRA VM SDRS level setting to “Disable” state to prevent this. Please suggest if any faced this issue and […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2018
    • Can We Limit Alert Percentages?

      We turned on e-mail alerts and we get a lot of messages that say “VPGNAME exceeds configured RPO of 15 minutes by more than 25%”.  Is there any way to limit the value so we don’t get messages that are below 50%?  This problem always self corrects before we can even do anything about it […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2018
    • Zerto and Ansible

      I’m looking at end-to-end automation for our DR solution (admittedly there will be some manual steps). Is anyone aware of any work whether by Zerto or a friendly individual in the community who has created any ansible modules for Zerto? I thinking of the following modules (if they exist); zerto_vpg zerto_vpg_host zerto_vpg_failover zerto_vra Thanks TOby

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2018
    • How to Set static MAC to VPG with Multiple VMs

      Could anyone can help to Powershell or API to set VPG with Multiple VMs. Customer demand specific MAC to their Every VMs. NAC is controlling MAC so customer want to specify MAC to Every VMs they want to protect. Zerto do have dynamic MAC change allowed but not static MAC change. Thank you in advance.

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • November 28, 2018