Always-on Replication

At the core of Zerto lives always-on replication, the engine delivering continuous backup and industry-leading disaster recovery

How Does Zerto Replication Work?

Learn more about how the industry-best Zerto platform’s software-only, scale-out architecture can help you protect applications while minimizing data loss.

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How It All Started

In 2011, Zerto introduced hypervisor-based replication to the world. By moving replication up the stack from the storage layer and into the hypervisor, Zerto created the first and only solution that delivers enterprise-class, always-on replication as well as backup and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for virtualized datacenters and the cloud.

Why Replicate Within the Hypervisor?

Unlike some data protection solutions that use cumbersome snapshots and agents, Zerto’s solution provides continuous replication with zero impact on application performance recovery.

Hypervisor-based replication natively integrates with all supported platforms, meaning it is hardware agnostic and compatible with many hypervisors and cloud platforms. It also supports the full breadth of capabilities made possible by virtualization, including high availability, clustering, vMotions, etc.

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How Zerto Replication Works

The following components reside at the heart of the Zerto platform’s replication technology:

Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM)

The management server integrates with any hypervisor management platform and has an intuitive interface that orchestrates user-initiated operations with simplicity.

Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)

Our scale-out replication appliance with built-in WAN optimization, encryption, and Quality of Service, replicates every change generated to the target journal and is responsible for copying data to the long-term retention repository.

Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA)

In public clouds, an all-in-one cloud appliance combines management and replication components. It integrates natively, using cost-efficient storage offerings, APIs, and cloud scaling features.

In summary, the VRA captures and makes a copy of the I/O before it leaves the hypervisor. It then sends this copy to a VRA on the target site before committing the I/O to the journal in the order that it was generated to ensure write-order fidelity. As the journal fills, it then commits the oldest recovery points to the replica disk.

How Zerto Replication Works

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Zerto Near-synchronous Replication for Lowest RPOs and RTOs

The Zerto platform’s software-only approach achieves nearly identical replication benefits found in expensive hardware-based synchronous replication solutions, with RTOs of minutes and RPOs of seconds. On top of that, software-based asynchronous replication is much cheaper and more practical than its hardware counterpart—and it’s easier to deploy and support.

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Replication Technologies: Synchronous, Asynchronous and Near-Synchronous

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Enable Cross-hypervisor and Cross-cloud Replication

With automatic, on-the-fly conversion of virtual machines (VMs), you no longer need to match hypervisors between your datacenters. This allows you to utilize the hypervisor of your choice—depending on your workload, cost, performance, and availability—without being locked in by technical limitations.

The Zerto platform’s agnostic approach doesn’t stop at hypervisors; it also extends into the cloud. With on-the-fly cloud translation, you can move or recover any workload to or from any supported cloud platform, with no manual conversion process required.

Cross-hypervisor Replication

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One-to-Many: Multi-site Replication

Zerto’s innovative one-to-many feature allows a VM to simultaneously replicate to several target platforms—including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, Google, or over 450 other Zerto-managed service providers—while replicating a local copy or second remote site.

Protect Interdependent Applications

One-to-many replication maintains a local replica of individual applications, with a protection group at the remote site for all interdependent applications. Write-order fidelity operations ensure disk, VM, and application consistency, enabling recovery of the entire datacenter to the exact same point in time, in minutes.

Migrate without Risk

One-to-many enables replication of applications, VMs, and data to the new location without breaking the existing replication and protection. Validate your migration project without impacting production by testing and proving recovery and performance in the new site, then complete the actual migration faster and without risk.

True Multi-cloud

Transform your business and replicate applications, VMs, and data within a local datacenter, to a secondary datacenter, and to over 450+ clouds—including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Configure different journal retention policies, enabling up to 30 days of point-in-time recovery using cheap S3 or Blob storage in the public cloud.