Protect Your Virtual Machines

You can protect VMs to a recovery site’s vCenter Server. The procedure is the same for protecting one or multiple VMs. To start, create virtual protection groups (VPGs). You use VPGs to perform several operations in a disaster recovery or migration scenario.

Create a Virtual Protection Group

To create a virtual protection group:

  1. In the Zerto IT Resilience Platform user interface, go to the VPGs tab and click New VPG.
    The VPG wizard appears.
  2. Complete the steps in the wizard to create the VPG.
To understand all the available options and for a detailed step-by-step procedure, see the “Protecting Virtual Machines” section in Zerto Quick Start for vSphere Environments referenced in the "Before You Begin" topic, elsewhere in this Playbook.

Run Operations On a Virtual Production Group

When you initiate replication, you can perform several operations on a VPG. In general, you can perform failover testing, restore VMs or volumes from backups, and perform migrations from an on-premises environment to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

For detailed documentation about all the possible use cases for testing disaster recovery in vSphere environments, see "Zerto Live Disaster Recovery Testing in vSphere Environments", referenced in the "Before You Begin" topic elsewhere in this Playbook.
Zerto also provides the ZVM Administrator Guide for vSphere Environments, also referenced in the "Before You Begin" topic, which details all the preceding concepts and provides a detailed step-by-step process for configuring and managing ZVM for production environments.