• Long Term Retention
    • is host to host migration supported (no vCenter)?

      Will the Zerto 5.x tool support migration/backup from a standalone ESXi host to another ESXi host where both hosts are not in vCenter? If it is possible, where is it documented? When I setup the ZVM for VMware, it only allows connection to vCenter which seems to indicate that a standalone host to another standalone […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • August 7, 2017
    • Report on Unprotected VMs in the environment

      I need to periodically review the VMs in our environment to determine that all the necessary VMs are being replicated/protected. Other than manually comparing a list of VMs in both the Zerto VPGs and the vCenter, how can one determine that there may be VMs that should be put under protection? It would be good […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 4
    • July 31, 2017
    • When/why to move to external SQL database?

      Hello, We have a fairly large VMware infra with 5 vcenters and 5 ZVM’s all linked together running v5 update 1 all running embedded db’s.  Our vCenters (5.5 and 6.0) manage 50 to 100 ESXi hosts and 1000 to 2000 VM’s. We currently have 300 VM’s protected by Zerto moving up to 500 in the […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • July 31, 2017
    • Multi-Site plus DR Site Support

      I have the requirement to Support a Three Node DR plan where I have Virtual Machines running in DC1 and DC2 and the third site as a shared DR Site. Does Zerto support Multi-Site +DR replication ? Example   DC1 – Production VMs plus extra capacity in Compute to run DC2 workloads as a backup […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 6
      Replies: 8
    • July 27, 2017
    • Unable to assign vCD Cloud Resources – ZCM

      Hi, In my Datacenter I have a ZVM/ZCM linked to vCloud Director. This environment is to be used to onboard customers into our cloud. I have 3 VRAs installed at the moment, they show green and connected. In Cloud Settings, vCDHos ticked, and I didn’t see any error when I configured the IP and the […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 1
      Replies: 2
    • July 27, 2017
    • Bandwidth throttle clarification

      Looking for clarification on the bandwidth throttle setting.  Is it an aggregate throttle between all recovery sites the protected site is sending?  Or would it be applied to each peering? E.g. 50 Mbps throttle – 25 from Site A to Site B and 25 from Site A to Site C? or 50 Mbps from Site […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 5
    • July 17, 2017
    • VPG boot order delay not working in failover test

      Hi we are just getting started with our implementation  of zerto and are running 5.0 update 3 with VMware 6u3 on the backend.  I’ve created a VPG which contains 4 vms.  On the boot order config screen I’v broken these into two groups (2 vms per group) with a boot delay of 300 seconds on […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • July 17, 2017
    • Post script assist to pull VMs from the VPGs.

      Hi, I am running a post-script and passing parameters %ZertoVCenterIP%  and  %ZertoVPGName%. What I want to obtain is VM list in %ZertoVPGName% and edit their VMX. I have majority of script down. I am unable to pull VM names in from %ZertoVPGName%. Is there a direct powershell command to pull VM names from the VPG? Any […]

      in: Scripting and APIs

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • July 13, 2017
    • ZVR version 5.0U3 compatibility with ESXi 6.0 U3

      <h5>Hi,</h5> <h5>According to the June 2017 ZERTO VIRTUAL REPLICATION INTEROPERABILITY MATRIX, if I’m installing ZVR v5U3 in a vSphere 6.0 U3 environment, there is a link to this article:- https://www.zerto.com/myzerto/knowledge-base/updating-a-zvm-to-support-zerto-approved-host-releases-prior-to-a-full-zvr-update/. The first step in the solution section of the article says “Contact Zerto Support to ensure that the ESXiHyper-V Host version you want to use […]

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • July 12, 2017
    • 6.5 html 5 plugin

      Hello,   I did a search and couldn’t find anything.  I am curious what the procedure is to allow Zerto 3rd Party Plugins into the HTML 5 client.  Any ideas? Thanks.

      in: VMware

    • People: 2
      Replies: 3
    • July 12, 2017
    • Installing VRA on hypervisorhost error

      So I’m trying trying to install the VRA on my 1 hypervisor host and it keeps failing with the error. “VMM is unable to process one or more of the provided cmdlet parameters. Type Get-Help Set-SCVirtualMachine -full to view a list of defined parameters and complete descriptions. Then try the operation again. VMM is unable […]

      in: Hyper-V

    • People: 1
      Replies: 1
    • June 28, 2017
    • Backup Repository

      I have created a new repository so I can run some test backups. The repository is a network share running on a Windows 2012 R2 server. I have validated it, however, its star does not go green and when I try to select it in a VPG it is not listed.

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 2
    • June 22, 2017
    • Database showing incorrect data

      I am trying to pull information from the database specifically around bandwidth.  We recently moved our DB external, and increased sampling to once per hour.  Because of this, I cannot pull resource reports for more than about a week.  While running a query directly from SQL, getting average bandwidth and max bandwidth, grouped by SourceSite […]

      in: General Discussion

    • People: 2
      Replies: 1
    • June 22, 2017