HPE Managing Zerto: Setup, Protection, and Recovery (H61K2S)

Module 1: Zerto Overview

• Define the Zerto platform
• Explain Zerto platform functionalities and advantages
• Zerto components
• Zerto use cases
• Complete data protection with Zerto and HPE

Module 2: Two Driver Options

• Name the two driver options
• Describe which driver option offers a signed VMware vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB)

Module 3: Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA)

• Define Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA)
• Requirements
• Resources

Module 4: Virtual Replication Appliances

• Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) overview
• What Is a VRA?
• VRA deployment
• VRA: source versus target summary
• VRA helpers overview
• VRA setup and load balancing
• VAIO mode uninstall flow
• Uninstall VRAs and I/O filters

Module 5: VAIO

• What is VMware vSphere APIs for I/O filtering (VAIO)
• Caveats of Zerto VAIO mode
• VMware software acceptance level
• Configure with VAIO enabled
• Install VRAs and I/O filters
• Turn on workload automation
• Zerto storage policies
• Zerto default policy
• Zerto default vSAN policy
• Assigning policies
• Deployment considerations for ZVM appliances

Module 6: Zerto Architectures

• Basic on-premises architecture
• Operational recovery architecture
• Local, same-site replication with optional offsite copy
• Disaster recovery architecture
• Replication to remote site for classic DR
• DR with extended journal copy architecture
• Remote DR with additional copy on the DR site or sent to the cloud
• Operational recovery and DR architecture
• Local replication plus DR site and additional copy from both

Module 7: Public Cloud Architectures

• Disaster recovery to the cloud
• Cloud native architecture
• Continuous DR architecture to AWS
• Zerto for Azure architectures: hybrid to cloud
• Disaster recovery in the cloud
• Why Zerto for native cloud workloads
• Zerto for Azure architectures: multiregion
• Zerto in-cloud for AWS
• Global disaster recovery

Module 8: Zerto Journal

• Journal-based recovery
• Journal technology
• Journal settings and sizing
• Journal history
• Journal size hard limit
• Journal sizing: I/O considerations
• Estimating journal size

Module 9: Zerto Replication

• Zerto replication overview
• What Is a checkpoint?
• What is write-order fidelity?
• Journal
• Types of sync
• Replication:
• Initial sync
• Bitmap sync
• Delta Sync

Module 10: Virtual Protection Groups (VPG)

• Virtual protection group (VPG) overview
• Consistent protection and recovery
• Creating VPG: four main options
• Three types of VPGs
• Remote DR and continuous backup VPG
• Local continuous backup VPG
• Data mobility and migration VPG
• VM auto-protect
• VPG replication prioritization overview
• One-to-many overview
• Exclude disks
• VPG considerations
• Assign Zerto storage policies

Module 11: Real-time Encryption Detection

• Anatomy of an attack
• Backup-based detection is inadequate
• Earliest warning when an attack is occurring
• Replicate and detect
• Zerto resilience observation console
• Encryption analyzer
• Collection phase
• Inspection phase
• Reaction phase
• Alerting
• Tagging
• User response
• Considerations

Module 12: File and VM Restores

• Instant restores of files, folders, and VMs
• Instant file/folder restores
• Recovery operations: file restore
• Restore limitations
• File restore process
• Instant VM restores

Module 13: Recovery Concepts

• Recovery operations: key concepts
• Scratch disk size and location
• Commit overview
• Commit policies
• None
• Auto-commit
• Auto-rollback
• Commit policy considerations
• Reverse protection overview
• VM shutdown options

Module 14: Recovery Operations—Failover Test

• Failover test overview
• Failover test process
• Recovery report
• Alternative uses for the failover test

Module 15: Recovery Operations—Live Failover

• Live failover overview
• Failover live: pre-commit
   1. Source VMs power down
   2. Failed over VMs power up
   3. VMs read from journal and replicas
   4. VMs write to scratch journals
• Failover live: commit
   1. Data promoted to VM disks from scratch disks
   2. Scratch disks and journals removed
   3a. With reverse protection, replicate back to original source
   3b. Could instead fail back if so desired
• Before your first live failover

Module 16: Recovery Operations—Move

• Move operation
   1. User or script initiates move
   2. Production VMs are shut down; uses last checkpoint so RPO = zero
   3. Pre-commit VMs are created and powered on
   4. User or script commits operation; data promotes
• Move parameters: keep source VMs
• Move versus failover

Module 17: Recovery Operations—Clone

• Creating an offsite clone
   1. Select the VMs to clone
   2. Select the journal checkpoint to use
   3. Select which site and datastore to clone to
   4. Clones come up as powered off VMs with a checkpoint timestamp

Module 18: Zerto Extended Journal Copy

• Zerto extended journal copy overview
• Extended journal copy
   Architecture
   Repository
   Disk objects map
   Scale-out: write
• Continuous data protection with extended journal copy
• Extended journal copy scale-out: read
• Recovering across the short and long term

Module 19: Module Zerto Analytics

• Zerto analytics
   Full reporting suite
   Enabling Zerto analytics
   Secure architecture
• Resource planner
   Process
   Requirements
• Zerto Analytics API

Module 20: Upgrade

• Zerto release features
• Zerto version 10 update 6
• Interoperability between versions
• Upgrading Zerto

Module 21: Additional Zerto Products

• Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault
• Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM)
   Considerations for ZCM
   ZCM installation on Windows
• Zerto Self-service Cloud Portal (ZSSP)