Zerto Deployment
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Rodney Barnhardt
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
When we first deployed Zerto we didn’t understand some of the limitations around the built-in database (it uses SQLite). Whilst this would normally be fine for most small to medium deployments (the database is supported for up to 100 protected VMs and 4 sites), as a cloud provider we needed to have greater scalability. This is provided by using a full deployment of Microsoft SQL, thankfully Zerto have a tool that will migrate the SQLite DB into your Microsoft SQL server so the transfer is pain free, but I would make sure that anyone who is deploying in an environment that may have more than 100 VMs to deploy initially on Microsoft SQL. Another area to be aware of in scalability is not with Zerto itself but the demands it can put on the DR storage environment, you will be replicating all your VM disk writes as well as journaling and potentially adding more demand when testing (as the Zerto continues to replicate even when testing, which is great, but does hammer the storage).
View full review »Absolutely none. I was replicating my first VPG in less than an hour.
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None.. Implementation was simple and quick. We were replicating vms in a matter of hours.
View full review »There are many post migration activities associated with a Hyper-V to ESX migration – don’t presume this is a hands off activity as it very much isn’t at this time. To make it hands off, there would be a ton of custom scripting required.
View full review »Assuming that you comply with the minimum requirements specified in their documentation, there should be no problems with deployment which is very straightforward.
View full review »Just in case of strict permission, we needed several ports to be opened. English language of OS for ZVM is needed, otherwise there's a bug showing some of the graphs.
View full review »When we were deploying our POC we had some errors in network configuration that had to be worked out in order for Zerto to function properly. I can't understate the importance of getting your networking configuration done in advance.
View full review »Non What so ever very straight forward and easy to complete. Also upgrading to the latest version could not be easier to do.
View full review »Deployment is so easy, so no.
View full review »We have had no issues with the deployment.
View full review »Not at all.
View full review »There were no issues with deployment.
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March 2024
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