Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Zerto Overview
- Introduction to Zerto
- Primary use cases
- Core technology and differentiators
Module 2: Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM)
- ZVM overview
- ZVM specifications and prerequisites
- Sizing and security hardening
- Installation
Module 3: Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs)
- VRA overview
- VRA resources: compute, memory, networking, and storage
- Deployment and setup
Module 4: Architectures
- Basic on-premises architecture
- Operational recovery architecture
- Disaster recovery (DR) architecture
- DR with long-term retention architecture
- Operational recovery and DR architecture
Module 5: Journal
- Role of the journal
- Basic data path
- Sizing and settings
Module 6: Zerto Replication
- Diving deeper on data path
- Checkpoints and write-order fidelity
- Initial, continuous, bitmap, and delta syncs
Module 7: Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs)
- Role of VPGs
- VPG types and creation
- VM auto-protection
- VPG prioritization
- One-to-many replication
Module 8: Long Term Retention (LTR)
- Overview of LTR
- Structure of LTR repositories
- LTR read and write flows
- Index and search
Module 9: Zerto Analytics and Monitoring
- Overview of Zerto analytics
- Zerto reports
- Zerto analytics architecture
- Resource planner
Module 10: File and VM Restores
- File restore process and considerations
- VM restore process and considerations
Module 11: Recovery Concepts
- Scratch disks
- Commits and commit policies
- Reverse protection
- VM shutdown options
Module 12: Recovery Operations: Failover Test
- Test overview
- Failover test process
- Additional use cases
Module 13: Recovery Operations: Live Failover
- Failover overview
- Failover process
Module 14: Recovery Operations: Move
- Move overview
- Move process
- Move parameters
- Comparison: move vs failover