How The Zerto Platform Works - Zerto

How Zerto Works

Foundational technical advantages add up to make Zerto stand out in an industry that’s continuously changing. Discover how Zerto is blazing new paths forward for cloud data management and protection.


Overview

Best-in-class continuous data protection powers Zerto to deliver a software-only solution that’s fundamentally different than anything else on the market. Discover what Zerto can do for you.

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Continuous Data Protection

Continuous Data Protection protects straightforward environments all the way up to complex multi-cloud environments with VM counts in the five digits. No matter the size, enjoy RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes with fully orchestrated DR and backup running on the infrastructure of your choice. 

Always-On Replication

Hypervisor – Kubernetes

Near-synchronous Replication

Local or Remote

No Impact on Production

Journal-Based Recovery

Point-in-time recovery

Granularity of seconds

Site, application, VM, file-level

Consistent Application Protection

Logical Consistency Groups

Multi-VM Applications Recovery

Long-Term Retention

Cost-effective Storage On-premises or Cloud

Files Restore From Days, Months or Years Ago

Intelligent Index & Search

Orchestration & Automation

One simple, scalable solution saves you time and resources while making it easier and faster to manage workloads at scale

Multi-Cloud

Replicate One-to-Many: to, from, and between clouds such as Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and more.

Workload Mobility

Easily migrate applications and data to and from different hypervisors and clouds.

Non-Disruptive

Validate with no impact on production: failover testing, migration dry-run, testing against production replicas.

APIs

Integrate with other solutions, customize and streamline operations with rich set of RESTfull APIs.


Analytics & Control

Complete visibility and insights across multi-site and multi-cloud environments


Visibility and Proactive Management

Protection & recovery insights across all servers and applications; SLA monitoring.

Accurate forecasting of future infrastructure needs.

Compliance & Regulatory

Built-in reporting coupled with non-disruptive testing.

Report across all resources and restore operations.

Meet internal audits and compliance requirements.

Zerto’s Components

ZVM: Zerto Virtual Manager

ZVM manages everything needed for the replication between the production and recovery sites, except for the actual replication of data.

VRA: Virtual Replication Manager

This appliance manages the replication of data from protected entities to its local and/or remote target where it stores the data in the journal.

PGs: Protection Groups

PGS allow consistent recovery of an entire application, and all its dependencies, to a consistent point in time.

Zerto Journal

The journal stores all changes for a user-defined period, up to 30 days, and allows you to recover to any point in time within that journal.

Zerto Components in a DR architecture within a virtualized environment

Reference Architectures

Example 1: Disaster Recovery

The disaster reference architecture depicted in the figure on the right shows a set of proven practices for setting Zerto up where a single remote target is being used as the recovery site.

DESCRIPTION

Protected VMs are grouped in VPGs with consistency across all the VMs within each VPG. A remote journal is configured on the remote target side and used for short-term recovery scenarios where recovery granularity of just seconds can be achieved. The recommend journal history period for this journal is 8 days as this will cover most recovery scenarios. All changes on the protected VMs are then kept for 8 days before being promoted to the remote replica disk(s).

Architecture Reference

Example 2: Local Continuous Backup and Disaster Recovery

The disaster reference architecture depicted in the figure on the right, takes the previous “disaster recovery” architecture and adds a local journal as well as a long-term retention repository.

DESCRIPTION

The local journal provides a continuous backup capability, allowing the recovery of files, VMs or applications locally.

The long-term retention repository helps to store the data beyond the journal history for compliance needs.

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