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)

Exercise 1: Introduction

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

Exercise 3: Configure the ZVMA

Exercise 4: License and Pair 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 Zerto REST API

Exercise 18: Using VMware Host Tags