Module 0: Introduction

• Course overview
• Course agenda

Module 1: HPE Zerto Overview

• The HPE Zerto platform
• HPE Zerto platform functionalities and advantages
• HPE Zerto components
• HPE Zerto use cases
• Complete data protection with HPE Zerto and HPE

Module 2: HPE Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA)

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

Module 3: 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 4: Two Driver Options

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

Module 5: VAIO

• What is VMware vSphere APIs for I/O filtering (VAIO)
• Caveats of HPE Zerto VAIO mode
• VMware software acceptance level
• Configure with VAIO enabled
• Install VRAs and I/O filters
• Turn on workload automation

  • HPE Zerto storage policies
  • HPE Zerto default policy
  • HPE Zerto default vSAN policy
• Assigning policies
• Deployment considerations for ZVM appliances

Module 6: HPE 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
  • HPE Zerto for Azure architectures: hybrid to cloud
• Disaster recovery in the cloud

  • Why HPE Zerto for native cloud workloads
  • HPE Zerto or Azure architectures: multiregion
  • HPE Zerto in-cloud for AWS
  • Global disaster recovery

Module 8: HPE Zerto Software 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: HPE Zerto Replication

• HPE 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 HPE Zerto Software 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
• HPE Zerto Software 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: HPE Zerto Software Extended Journal Copy

• HPE Zerto Software 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 HPE Zerto Software Analytics

• HPE Zerto Software Analytics

  • Full reporting suite
  • Enabling HPE Zerto Software Analytics
  • Secure architecture
• Resource Planner

  • Process
  • Requirements
• HPE Zerto Software Analytics API

Module 20: Upgrade

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

Module 21: Cyber Resilience Vault and HPE Zerto Ecosystem Tools

• HPE Zerto Software Cyber Resilience Vault
• HPE Zerto Software Cloud Manager (ZCM)

  • Considerations for ZCM
  • ZCM installation on Windows
• HPE Zerto Software Self-service Cloud Portal (ZSSP)

Exercise 1: Introduction

Exercise 2: Deploy the HPE Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA) from OVF

Exercise 3: Configure the ZVMA

Exercise 4: License and Pair HPE Zerto Sites

Exercise 5: VRA Installation

Exercise 6: Create a Virtual Protection Group

Exercise 7: Create Local Virtual Protection Group

Exercise 8: Copy a Virtual Protection Group

Exercise 9: Edit a Virtual Protection Group

Exercise 10: Restore Files and Folders After a Ransomware Attack

Exercise 11: Failover Test

Exercise 12: Perform a Live Failover

Exercise 13: Perform a Move Operation

Exercise 14: Create an Extended Journal Repository

Exercise 15: Edit VPG to Enable Extended Journal Copies

Exercise 16: Using the Clone Operation

Exercise 17: Using the HPE Zerto REST API

Exercise 18: Using VMware Host Tags