• Zerto & Cisco Hyperflex – Karmen Griggs
    • VPG Best Practice

      I am creating new VPG’s in Zerto (Version 6.0 Patch 2) and would like to know some best practices in doing so.  More specifically in regards to replication and storage.  Do you typically have a dedicated Datastore for the recovered VM/volumes?  What is the typical journal history settings and do you use the advanced journal […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • March 6, 2018
    • ESXi host migration

      currently I have esxi host running with old hardware and would like to techfresh esxi host hardware which is running 5.5 to new hardware with esxi 6.0. Can you please advise what is the best practice the to do so?

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 8
    • March 5, 2018
    • Protecting Zerto itself

      I’ve asked this question to the forum and my internal Zerto contacts on several occasions. As we know Zerto does a great job of protecting our virtual infrastructures. However per Zerto best practices we are not supposed to perform backups of ZVM’s nor can we protect ZVM’s in a VPG. I usually hear things like […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • February 15, 2018
    • vCenter migration including new AD domain

      Greetings, We are preparing for upgrading to vspshere 6.5.x. Part of this requires us to upgrade to Zerto 5.5 prior to the VMware upgrade. We have 5 vcenters that are connected together in Zerto including a ZCM that are all on 5.0u1. We will only be upgrading 3 of the 5 vcenters (and hosts) to […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • February 14, 2018
    • 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) […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • February 14, 2018
    • Questions about Zerto naming conventions in Azure

      Hello, I’m currently working on some Azure processes and want to confirm that a few parts of Zerto’s implementation of it are expected and not planned to change just to make sure what I’m working on doesn’t break with an upcoming update. 1) When running a failover or failover test, the VM and its NIC […]

      in: Microsoft Azure

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • February 14, 2018
    • v6.0P1 Fixes/Changes?

      Hi – I noticed that you’ve released Patch 1 for the recently released v6.0. I’ve read through the release notes but I don’t see anything that specifically says what was fixed/changed from v6.0 to v6.0P1. Is there a way I can find out what the fixes/changes are for this Patch? Thanks

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • February 12, 2018
    • Unable to mount disk for recovery

      We are trying to do a file restore but are unable to get the disk to mount. It shots to 80% then hangs for almost an hour before failing with the following: When trying to create VBA mediator for session 651746ef-08ab-4dff-90ac-c2a9e6d05fd6.cc5f8962-64cc-450a-8c3b-01260461dfa3 caught exception Anyone else come across this

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • February 12, 2018
    • VmwareVMs migrated to Azure does not boot

        Hello I created centos minimal 7.1 on ESXi6.0 and doing failover test to Azure, but centos does not boot in the recovery site. I got a screenshot of azure boot diagnostics. CentOS outputted an error message about boot. Could you guide me to know that I need to enable to be able to boot […]

      in: Microsoft Azure

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • February 8, 2018
    • "Setting Validation Failed" in Invoke-RestMethod

      I am using a script to pull the settings of all VM NIC settings, based off the script found here starting on page 16: https://www.zerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Automating-Zerto-Virtual-Replication-with-PowerShell-and-REST-APIs.pdf It mostly works, however I found it was skipping over some VPGs. Digging into it, I found that the problem was occuring here (near the top of page 18): <h6>########################################## […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 3
      Replies: 5
    • February 7, 2018
    • Disable WAN Compression

      hi guys my customer wants to use some Riverbead WAN Optimization-compression but for what I read WAN Compression can be disabled, I see when I create a VPG is enabled by default, is that Global setting or per VPG, and how to do it either globally o per VPGs thanks

      in: VMware

    • People: 3
      Replies: 8
    • February 1, 2018