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Automated Disaster Recovery Testing
Simplicity Through Automation
The ability to orchestrate and automate a disaster recovery plan as well as successfully test that
plan on a frequent basis is a key requirement for any business. However, the majority of
organizations face significant risk factors such as:
• The recovery process is reliant on the knowledge of individuals who may not be available
when disruption occurs
• Testing the failover and failback functionality is a time-consuming process, involving the
coordinated effort across various IT teams outside of business hours or on weekends
• Recovering data and applications is a manual effort, often taking hours or days to complete
Zerto Virtual Replication removes these pain points, offering a platform that enables
orchestrated and automated recovery testing, carried out any time during business hours, with
just four simple clicks.
Key Automation and Testing Features
• Multi-VM grouping mechanisms that support application consistent recovery
• Support for pre-and post-replication scripts to further automate the recovery process
• On-the-fly VM conversion between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Automatic IP-reconfiguration, MAC addressing, and boot-ordering
• Seamless Failback to original source site with Reverse Protect feature
• Support for Powershell and REST APIs for further customization
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These features ensure that data and applications are recovered in a working state and in the
fastest time possible. Customer replication scripts can also be utilized to customize the recovery
process and automate any additional configuration stops required. Failback to the original
source site is as seamless as the initial failover using the Reverse Protect feature
Compliance with Advanced DR Reporting
Zerto Virtual Replication includes failover test reporting to easily prove recovery capabilities for
auditing and management purposes. Reports can be generated for any failover test, customized
with company logos, and scripted to run any time, any day. The report documents the pass/fail
of each step of the recovery process in a concise PDF printout. Because ZVR makes disaster
recovery testing so simple, IT teams can save countless hours and get precious time back to
tackle projects that drive the business forward.
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Not Just for Disaster Recovery
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One of the most complex and resource-intensive projects is a datacenter migration. The inability
to test and validate a migration prior to committing to the move adds significant risk and can
often result in missing data and applications. With ZVR, companies can test migrations ahead of
time in an isolated bubble network, giving complete confidence that the migration will complete
quickly and successfully. This, combined with on-the-fly VM conversion between hypervisor and
cloud platforms, makes ZVR the industry standard product for datacenter consolidations and
migrations.
SOLUTIONS
Use Cases (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/)
Continuous Data Protection (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/continuous-data-protection/)
Replication & Disaster Recovery (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/replication-disaster-recovery-
solutions-dr-software/)
Move From Backup to Long Term Retention (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/offsite-backup-data-
protection-long-term-retention/)
Data Center Migrations (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/data-center-migration-software/)
Automated Disaster Recovery Testing (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/automated-dr-testing/)
Reduce RTO & RPO (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/reduce-rto-rpo-recovery-objectives/)
One-to-Many Replication (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/zerto-virtual-replication-one-to-many/)
Complete BC/DR Solution (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/complete-bcdr-solution-business-
continuity-disaster-recovery/)
Recovering from Ransomware (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/recovering-from-ransomware-with-
zerto-virtual-replication/)
Storage Savings (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/storage-savings/)
Cross-Hypervisor Replication (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/cross-hypervisor-replication-vmware-
hyper-v-aws/)
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/gdpr-readiness-and-
compliance/)
Application (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/application/)
Industry (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/industry/)
Infrastructure (https://www.zerto.com/solutions/infrastructure/)
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