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1 Rev01-U2 Jun2018 Zerto Virtual Manager Administration GuideAWS EnvironmentVersion 2 Copyright 2018, Zerto Ltd. All rights in this document is confidential and subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Zerto Ltd. Zerto Ltd. does not assume responsibility for any printing errors that may appear in this document. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval systems, for any purpose other than the purchaser's personal use, without the prior written permission of Zerto other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective scripts are provided by example only and are not supported under any Zerto support program or service. All examples and scripts are provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind.

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3 8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO Zerto Virtual REPLICATION .. 9 What is Zerto Virtual Replication?.. 9 Zerto Virtual Replication Architecture .. 10 How Zerto Virtual Replication Recovery Works .. 11 Zerto Analytics - Overview .. 12 Benefits of Using Zerto Virtual Replication .. 14 Import Methods for AWS ..17 How Zerto Virtual Replication for AWS Workload Protection Works .. 20 CHAPTER 2: ACCESSING THE Zerto USER INTERFACE .. 21 Using the Zerto Virtual Manager Web Client .. 21 Adding a Security Certificate for the Zerto User Interface.. 21 Working With the Zerto User Interface .. 23 Subtabs .. 24 Views.. 24 CHAPTER 3: OVERVIEW OF RECOVERY FLOWS .. 25 Flow for a Disaster Recovery Operation .. 25 Flow for a Test Failover Operation .. 26 Flow for a File or Folder Level Restore Operation .. 26 Flow for an Offsite Backup and Restore Operation .. 26 CHAPTER 4: INTRODUCTION TO PROTECTING Virtual MACHINES.

4 27 Configuring Virtual Protection Groups .. 27 The Role of the Journal During Protection .. 28 What Happens After the VPG is Defined .. 28 Recovery .. 29 File and Folder Recovery .. 29 Offsite Backups .. 30 CHAPTER 5: PROTECTING Virtual MACHINES FROM AWS .. 31 Replication From a Protected Site AWS to a Recovery Site vCenter Server ..31 Maintained VM Properties when Recovering to a vCenter Server Site from a Protected AWS Site .. 48 Replication From a Protected Site AWS to a Recovery Site vCloud Director .. 50 Replication From a Protected Site AWS to a Recovery Site Hyper-V .. 64 Replication From a Protected Site AWS to a Recovery Site Azure.. 80 CHAPTER 6: MONITORING Zerto Virtual REPLICATION .. 86 The DASHBOARD Tab .. 86 Monitoring VPGs The VPGs Tab .. 88 List View - GENERAL.. 88 List View - PERFORMANCE.. 894 List View - BACKUP.. 89 Additional Fields and Options .. 90 Grid View.

5 90 Monitoring a Single VPG .. 92 Monitoring Tasks .. 95 Monitoring Protected Virtual Machines The VMs Tab .. 97 Monitoring Peer Sites - The SITES Tab .. 99 Monitoring Repositories The SETUP Tab The REPOSITORIES Tab .. 100 Monitoring Offsite Backups The OFFSITE BACKUP Tab ..101 VPGs Tab ..101 VMs Tab .. 102 CHAPTER 7: MANAGING VPGS .. 104 Editing a VPG.. 104 Modifying the Journal Size Hard Limit .. 105 Modifying the Retention Period for Offsite Backups .. 105 Adding Virtual Machines to a VPG .. 105 Removing Virtual Machines from a VPG .. 107 Pausing and Resuming the Protection of a VPG .. 107 Forcing the Synchronization of a VPG .. 107 Deleting a VPG .. 108 Deleting a VPG When the Status is Deleting .. 108 Running an Unscheduled Offsite Backup .. 108 Ensuring Application Consistency Checkpoints .. 109 Adding a Checkpoint to Identify a Key Point ..110 Running Scripts Before or After Recovering a VPG.

6 111 Creating a Script .. 112 Example Scripts ..114 Exporting and Importing VPG Definitions ..114 VPG Statuses and Synchronization Triggers .. 115 VPG Statuses..116 VPG Synchronization Triggers .. 120 CHAPTER 8: MANAGING A Zerto Virtual Manager .. 122 Check Connectivity Between Zerto Virtual Replication Components .. 122 Reconfiguring the Zerto Virtual Manager Setup .. 123 Reconfiguring the Microsoft SQL Server Database Used by the Zerto Virtual Manager .. 124 Replacing the SSL Certificate .. 125 Pair to Another Site and Unpairing Sites.. 125 CHAPTER 9: OVERVIEW OF DISASTER RECOVERY OPERATIONS .. 127 The Failover Test Operation .. 127 The Move Operation .. 128 The Failover Operation .. 128 The Restore File Operation .. 129 CHAPTER 10: ADVANCED SITE CONFIGURATION .. 130 Site Settings .. 130 Editing Information About a Site .. 132 Defining Site Policies .. 133 Configuring Email Settings.

7 134 Defining the Resource Report Sampling Period .. 135 Seeing What is Licensed .. 1355 About the Zerto Virtual Replication Version .. 136 CHAPTER 11: TESTING RECOVERY TO AWS .. 138 The Test Failover Process.. 138 Starting and Stopping Failover Tests .. 139 After Starting a Test, What Happens? ..141 Viewing Test Results .. 142 Live Disaster Recovery Testing .. 143 Basic Verification User Traffic Is Not Run against the Recovered VMs.. 144 CHAPTER 12: MIGRATING A VPG TO AWS .. 146 The Move Process .. 146 Moving Protected Virtual Machines to a Remote Site .. 148 CHAPTER 13: MIGRATING A VPG FROM AWS .. 152 The Move Process .. 152 Moving Protected Virtual Machines From AWS to a Remote Site .. 153 Reverse Protection For a Moved VPG .. 156 CHAPTER 14: MANAGING FAILOVER TO AWS .. 158 The Failover Process .. 158 Initiating a Failover .. 159 What Happens When the Protected Site is Down.

8 164 Initiating a Failover During a Test.. 164 CHAPTER 15: CLONING A VPG TO AWS .. 165 The Clone Process .. 165 Cloning Protected Virtual Machines to the Remote Site .. 165 CHAPTER 16: RECOVERING FILES AND FOLDERS .. 168 The File and Folder Recovery Process .. 168 Recovering Files and Folders .. 169 Mounting the Disk that Contains the Required Files and Folders .. 169 Downloading the Files and Folders from the Disk .. 172 CHAPTER 17: FAILING BACK FROM AWS .. 176 The Failback (Move) Process .. 176 Failback (Move) After the Original Site is Operational.. 177 Initiating a Failback (Move) .. 177 Reverse Protection For a Moved VPG ..181 CHAPTER 18: OFFSITE BACKUP CONFIGURATION .. 182 Creating an Offsite Backup Repository .. 182 Editing an Offsite Backup Repository .. 183 CHAPTER 19: Zerto Virtual REPLICATION REPORTS .. 185 Recovery Reports .. 185 Resources Report.

9 186 Using a REST API to Generate a Report .. 186 Details Tab .. 1876 Performance Tab .. 189 Target Host Tab .. 189 VPG Performance.. 190 Backup Report .. 190 CHAPTER 20: TROUBLESHOOTING .. 191 Ensuring the Zerto Virtual Manager is Running ..191 Troubleshooting: Needs Configuration Problems .. 192 Troubleshooting VRA Problems .. 192 Zerto Virtual Replication Diagnostics Utility .. 192 Collecting Zerto Virtual Replication Logs .. 193 Using Remote Log Collection .. 193 Using the Zerto Diagnostics application.. 194 Understanding the Logs .. 198 CHAPTER 21: THE Zerto Virtual Manager USER INTERFACE .. 199 About Dialog .. 199 Add Checkpoint Dialog ..200 Add Site Dialog .. 201 Pair sites .. 201 Advanced VM Settings for Cloud Dialog .. 201 ALERTS .. 202 Boot Order Dialog .. 202 Checkpoints Dialog .. 203 Edit NIC Dialog ..204 Edit VM Network Dialog.. 205 License Dialog ..206 New Repository Dialog.

10 207 NICs Dialog ..208 Offsite Clone Dialog..208 Open Support Ticket Dialog..208 Remote Support Dialog .. 210 Site Settings Dialog .. 210 Site Information Dialog .. 210 Policies Dialog .. 211 Email Settings Dialog.. 212 Reports Dialog.. 212 Stop Failover Test Dialog .. 213 TASKS .. 213 Restore Volumes Dialog .. 214 CHAPTER 22: GLOSSARY .. 2157 Zerto Virtual Replication Administration guide for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Version About This GuideABOUT THIS GUIDEWith support for different hypervisors, such as vSphere or Hyper-V, workloads can be protected, migrated, and recovered, either within the same hypervisor environment or across hypervisor guide describes how to configure and manage Zerto Virtual Replication to implement business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) solutions in a VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure or mixed AudienceThis guide is for the use of experienced hypervisor of Content in This GuideThis guide contains the following chapters.