• Perform file copy with post-recovery script CentOS
    • Shutdown a disconnected VRA

      I have an esxi host that is not responding in vCenter. All VMs on this host are still running. VMware support wants me to gracefully shutdown all affected VMs and then power cycle the host. How do I gracefully shutdown the affected VRA? I have only ever shutdown VRAs thru vCenter, but that is not […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • January 29, 2018
    • Post VPG FailoverTest cleanup via API

      I’m building some tools into my company’s intranet web app that will allow running VPG failovers and tests of failovers by making calls to the API behind the scenes.  It’s clear that I would call the VPG test endpoint to start a test: Test VPG https://zvm_ip:port/v1/vpgs/{protectionGroupIdentifier}/failoverTest But it’s not entirely clear what to call when […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • January 29, 2018
    • Live Failover button grayed out

      Hi Everyone,   Wondering if you’ve experience this issue before.  I was trying to do a live failover but the ‘failover’ button is grayed out!  The machines I want to failover are all synced, so I’m not too sure what would be causing it to not move forward. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.   […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 3
    • January 29, 2018
    • Azure as Protected Site in Zerto 6

      hey guys I know Zerto 5.5 can failover and failback VMs to Azure but do you know if Zerto 6 will let us have Azure as main Site/protected site? I have a customer with some VMs in Azure and he would like to replicate them to a vmware on-premises infraestructure and after he has in […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • January 29, 2018
    • Role and permission requirements to access API

      We have a powershell script which checks general health and config status of our key infrastructure components including Zerto. It uses API calls to get Zerto information we need. I need to make sure the script uses a user with lowest possible privilege to make the API calls. At this stage, we only need to […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 1
      Replies: 1
    • January 19, 2018
    • RDM "incorrect block size" error

      I want to replicate the rdm disks connected to the running virtual server on rdm disks connected to the other esxi server.I could map an rdm disk of size 510 gb. However, although rdm drives are given in the same size, I get inrorrect block size error for 2TB size disks. Hitachi storage on the […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • January 16, 2018
    • Destination Journal increase during maintenance

      Hi, We are in the process of doing some planned maintenance to our VMware hosts (put one into maintenance mode, patch, move on to the next etc) at our source side and during the this process, have noticed that the storage free at the destination rapidly decreases. I assume this is the journal size increasing […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • January 16, 2018
    • Renaming recovery datastore – will it break Zerto?

      Hello everyone.  We are running Zerto 5.5U2 in VMware 6.0 on 3PAR storage and have a question: Can you rename a datastore being used by Zerto without breaking anything? Does Zerto make use of the name explicitly or the datastore GUID? Wanted to see if this is a supported action since I couldn’t find it […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • January 12, 2018
    • Test Failover

      Hello I am doing a failover test to azure and the machines are created, but I can not connect to the machines in the recovery site. I enabled the NSG rules for SSH (22) and RDP (3389) connections but I can not connect. Could you guide me to know that I need to enable to […]

      in: Microsoft Azure

    • People: 3
      Replies: 2
    • January 11, 2018
    • Upgrading Windows vCenter from 6.0 to 6.5

      Upgrading our vCenter servers (one at Home Office and one at DR Center)  from 6.0u2 to 6.5u1 while migrating from Windows to the Virtual appliance.  Not updating hosts. We are on Zerto 5.5u2 are there any technical documents or steps to take before migrating to new vCenter appliance and from version 6.0 to 6.5   […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 4
      Replies: 5
    • December 19, 2017