Patrick invited me to vRetreat last month, this was my first time attending vRetreat event, with the current circumstances under which Patrick transformed the event into a virtual on Zoom. It was great to see a lot of wonderful bloggers just to name a few., Ather Beg, Amit Panchal,  Andy Nash Marco Broeken, Megan Warren, Barry Coombs and Kyle Davies

Steve Blow addressed Zerto’s session with the exiting Zerto 8.0 release on 24 March 2020, He is Systems Engineering Manager in the UK. Zerto Expand Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Across On-Premises and Cloud, with this release. Zerto also announces partnership with Google Cloud and Deeper Integration with Azure, AWS and VMware. Since we all know that everybody is thinking about multi-cloud technology, and others are still working on it, Zerto has done it already.

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By now, it’s no secret that Google Cloud VMware Solution by Cloud Simple allows companies to run their VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Better known as Good VMware Engine. GVE Enables customers to use Google Cloud Platform to run native VMware workloads. Integration of Zerto enables replication in Google Cloud, click to read more about Google Cloud VMware Solution

Zerto 8.0 supports VMware on Google Cloud, which allows users to protect and migrate VMware’s native workload on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

VMware running on dedicated Google private cloud

Native VMware configuration

Replication to Google Cloud

VMware on Google Region to Region replication

One of the most common use cases are for Cloud disaster recovery (DR), transfer of workloads to and from Google Cloud and recovery from cyber attacks.

Zerto helps you to migrate and restore entire multi-VM applications to and from AWS in case of individual server failure, site-wide outage, or as part of a planned migration.

As we all know Amazons S3 is a really cheap option to store data for long term retention, so we have Zerto giving us the option to use the AWS S3 for long term retention.

Local cache for faster recovery

Deploy as a virtual appliance (VMware, HyperV) or physical

Utilize cost-efficient cloud storage

Deeper AWS integration

AWS Storage Gateway for data protection

Automated OS configuration

VM network settings orchestration at enterprise scale

Streamline VM settings for entire failover and failback cycle

Cost-effective Disaster Recovery: Make substantial cost savings by making Microsoft Azure a platform for disaster recovery and just pay for what you’re using with unlimited burst power. Zerto is moving applications and data to the cloud, easily, accurately, and without any effect on production environments. Deploy Zerto in any infrastructure you support.

Deeper Azure Integration

Cost-effective Disaster Recovery

Support for Azure Gen 2 VMs (UEFI Architecture)

VM network settings orchestration at enterprise scale

Streamline VM settings for entire failover and failback cycle

Azure Managed Disks available in all public regions

Let’s jump to my favourite VMware, Zerto is a few new features to announce in this new version.

Zerto brings additional benefits to vVols datastores

Providing continuous data protection (CDP) rather than snapshots

Enabling storage vendor-agnostic data protection

From/to/between vVols and non vVols datastores

In short Support for VMware VVOLs, with VVOLS being usable for protection and recovery

Conclusion:

Zerto provides the ability to replicate between not just private On-Premise cloud but to public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud.

This makes Zerto a true multi-cloud Backup and DR solution, Zerto provides a single solution for protection, recovery, backup, and migration of data in the public cloud.

Zerto 8.0 has a lot of new enhancements, some of them are listed below:

• New Recovery User Interface
• Rapid Reverse Protection for Workload Mobility
• Freely migrate, conduct tests, and perform failovers with more availability.
• Optimizing VM to VRA Load Balancing

New Application-Aware Retention

Extending the value of virtual protection groups to long-term retention

• Consistent application recovery with write-order fidelity
• Simple, scalable and automated
• From seconds to years

I am sure after reading all these amazing capabilities Zerto can provide, you would wish to test Zerto? you can do so, by Access Zerto labs by visiting myZerto or visiting https://www.zerto.com/page/labs

Reference :

https://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/news/252480825/Zerto-8-opens-AWS-Storage-Gateway-supports-Google-Cloud

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/03/23/zerto-8-google-cloud-platform/

https://www.vmware.com/uk/partners/strategic-technology-partners/google.html

https://www.zerto.com/modernize/aws-replication/

Logo: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2427298/the-advantages-of-managing-dr-from-the-hypervisor-rather-than-the-storage-layer

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