Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR)

Zerto’s flagship product, Zerto Virtual Replication, is a comprehensive Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution primarily designed for medium and large-scale enterprises. This application uses hypervisor-based replication, ensuring it replicates data at the virtual machine level rather than at the storage or application level. This process allows for even greater scalability, flexibility, and efficiency in protecting and recovering data across different platforms.

The ZVR application consists of several components that simultaneously deliver consistent data replication and orchestration.

Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM)

This platform implements a management server that integrates with vCenter and provides a user-friendly interface for configuring and managing replication policies, virtual protection groups, failover, migration, and testing operations.

Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA)

Zerto also creates an equivalent of the virtual manager for public clouds like Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and others. The Zerto Cloud Appliance integrates natively with cloud APIs and services and employs cost-effective storage options for data replication.

Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)

The Virtual Replication Appliance is a scale-out replication appliance integrated into each hypervisor to perform the actual replication of data from the source to the target site. The VRA also provides users WAN optimization, encryption, and quality of service (QoS) features to ensure efficient and secure data transfer.

Journal

Zerto prides itself on its continuous data protection technology. It achieves this functionality by creating a dynamic buffer that chronologically stores every change made to the protected data. With this component, the ZVR application performs point-in-time data recovery from any point in the past up until the configured retention period.