Innlegg skrevet av gjesteblogger fra vår samarbeidspartner Zerto: Darren Swift, EMEA Systems Engineer at Zerto.
“The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd, the one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before”
The quote above is a real favorite of mine, in the world of IT I think it is rare that you get one truly unique product/service. Zerto has innovated a disaster recovery standard for enterprise and cloud companies for the virtualized world over the last 4 years, and it shows no signs of slowing down, if anything we are speeding up, innovating more and going places no one has been before!
If you are reading this and have no idea what Zerto does then I encourage you to look at this 90 second video which shows exactly what we do:
Or contact Purity IT AS who power their Disaster recovery as a service with Zerto and have a fantastic team who can show you the software and what they can do for your disaster recovery strategy.
So back to the title “To 4.0 and Beyond” aside from the catchy Buzz Lightyear reference what are we actually doing in 4.0? Well first and foremost this software is in Beta right now for existing customers and partners with a GA date soon to be announced.
The headlines are:
- New user interface: written in HTML 5 with improved workflows and information
- Microsoft Hyper-V support: full support for Hyper-V including fail over, fail over test & move for use in Hyper-V environments
- Cross hyper visor support: Protection in a VMware environment with recovery to a Hyper-V environment and vice-versa!
- AWS Support: Support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) including fail over, fail over test, & move from either a Hyper-V or VMware environment
- Increased journal History
- VRA security enhancements
That is a really exciting list of additional features so let’s start with the most basic the new interface.
The new interface I hope you will agree is a vast improvement and has been designed from the ground up to give one user interface for VMware, Hyper-V and AWS disaster recovery so that users have a common platform in which they can administer Zerto. The new GUI has many improved workflows and wizards to enable a more efficient use of an administrator’s time.
The new GUI has also been designed to be a dashboard that you could place on a status screen and instantly see your company wide RPO, GB protected, compression and how many virtual machines are being protected by Zerto.
Cross hyper visor replication allowing to replicate between VMware and Hyper-V and vice versa! This makes Zerto hypervisor agnostic as well as storage agnostic. This now allows you to consider the following protection scenarios when it comes to VM replication and recovery:
- VMs from Microsoft Hyper-V into a VMware vCD cloud provider for DRaaS
- Tier 1 VMs between Microsoft Hyper-V sites
- VMs from Microsoft Hyper-V satellite offices into a VMware vSphere data center
- VMs from a VMware vSphere primary data center into a Microsoft Hyper-V recovery site to utilize Microsoft licensing
Let’s think about why we have released this, Microsoft Hyper-V is becoming more attractive to companies due to licensing and when considering the next upgrades/renewals of your hyper visor licensing then this could be an option for you as you can utilize Zerto to cover your DR. The most relevant use case which resonates with me is the ability to have remote offices use Hyper-V for smaller deployments and replicate this back to your VMware production data center.
This is extremely innovative, giving companies a standard for Disaster Recovery whatever storage or hyper visor you use & one common interface to manage and allows you as end customers to leverage DRaaS providers such as Purity IT AS
And finally but no means last Zerto can now replicate in to AWS. You may be thinking why would we extend Zerto in to the public cloud? The public cloud is becoming more and more accepted as a strategy in companies and the use of it makes so much sense. The top two services customers always say to me which they would move to the cloud are Back up and Disaster Recovery which frees up much capacity, performance, management and cost from an enterprise. But also think of it this way, what if you did not have a secondary data center and wanted to still have disaster recovery? The public cloud allows you to consume resources already there and move your workloads to that cloud.
This is Zerto’s vision, we are on our road to hyper visor agnostic as above, we have been doing storage agnostic for many years and soon you should be able to move your workloads to any cloud and not be restricted, only selecting your cloud offering based on cost and SLA.
This video shows you the workflow for performing a fail over test to AWS:
Final thought
What has astounded me at Zerto is that we have not lost any of our features which have made Zerto such a great product and all these capabilities are in our new supported announcements as above:
- An RPO of seconds
- Journal based replication method allowing you to roll back from seconds up to 5 days ago
- RTO of minutes automating your disaster recovery
- Virtual protection groups recovering maintaining write order fidelity across your servers to recover to a consistent point in time per application
- Non-disruptive DR testing, single click failback
- WAN compression and throttling
- Priority QoS and SLA governance
It is great to see a product like Zerto innovating the way in which they do, and I encourage you if you wish to see Zerto in action contact Purity IT AS they have a DRaaS offering powered by Zerto with an impressive setup and impressive technical teams looking after this solution who will soon be able to offer you the above features in your environments, and will be more than happy to take you through the software and its benefits.
Post written by Darren Swift EMEA Systems Engineer@Zerto
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