Zerto Deployment

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Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry
it_user167316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director with 51-200 employees

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).

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it_user159705 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vmware administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Absolutely none. I was replicating my first VPG in less than an hour.

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it_user159951 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Virtualization/Converged at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

None.. Implementation was simple and quick. We were replicating vms in a matter of hours.

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it_user360021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Storage & Servers at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user400455 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Assuming that you comply with the minimum requirements specified in their documentation, there should be no problems with deployment which is very straightforward.

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Cloud Solutions Architect at Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni

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.

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it_user187677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user153090 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cloud Architecture at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Non What so ever very straight forward and easy to complete. Also upgrading to the latest version could not be easier to do.

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it_user159276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Expert with 501-1,000 employees

Deployment is so easy, so no.

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it_user164685 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pr. UNIX Sys Admin at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with the deployment.

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it_user282300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect with 501-1,000 employees
it_user282024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user710619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader in Advanced Services department at a tech services company

There were no issues with deployment.

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Zerto
March 2024
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