Zerto - Hypervisor-Based Disaster Recovery

Zerto Comparative Advantage

Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) provides virtual aware, enterprise-class replication in a software-only solution which seamlessly installs in the existing infrastructure in approximately one hour. Purpose-built for virtualized mission-critical applications, it delivers recovery point objectives of seconds and recovery time objectives of minutes. With a hypervisor-based approach, virtualization and business continuity strategies align to deliver the flexibility, agility and cost savings that virtualization promised.
Zerto Virtual Replication Core Competencies

• Hypervisor-based disaster recovery includes data replication and full automation for failover, failback and DR plan testing
• True BC/DR solution which does not require additional products to deliver enterprise-class service levels
• Replicates virtual machines (VMs) and VMDKs so the exact information that is needed is replicated regardless of datastore location

Support for heterogeneous environments – vSphere, vCloud and heterogeneous storage
ZVR enables replication between

• different types of storage
• Different types of servers
• VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud
  • VMware vSphere 4.X to VMware vSphere 5.X

Automated failover, failback and testing
With ZVR, the failover and failback process is set up during “quiet” times - failover execution is simple
-One click to failover
-One click to reverse protect, if desired
One click to failback:
-One click for non-disruptive testing – Testing can be done during business hours as the test environment is completely separate from the production environment
-Off-site clone entire application groups for extended testing or backup
Virtual Protection Groups (VPG):

• Group VMs together that support an application – such as web server, app server, database server
• Configure re-IPing, boot order
• Ensure the consistent protection and recovery of an application
• ZVR aligns VPGs with the VMware vSphere vApps and vCloud vApps

Multi-site Support
Bi-directional replication from many sites is simple to configure, enabling protection of your branch offices and main data center
Point in time recovery
Up to 5 days are available, providing very granular recovery points in time
Installation / Configuration

• Complete in one hour
• Installs seamlessly into your existing infrastructure; requires no configuration changes

WAN Compression
ZVR compresses data sent over the WAN to ensure minimal impact to precious bandwidth