By the end of this class, you should be able to:
• Articulate the top use cases Zerto supports and what architectures are needed for each
• Describe the major Zerto components and how they interoperate
• Install, set up, and configure Zerto in a vSphere environment
• Protect virtual machines replicating locally and to a secondary peer site
• Perform the most common recovery operations, including file restores, failover tests, live failover, and moves

• Zerto customers
• Zerto partners

Module 1: Zerto Overview

• Define Zerto platform

• Explain Zerto platform functionalities

• Zerto components

• Architecture

Module 2: The Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM)

• Overview

• Requirements

• Compare Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) and Zerto Cloud Appliance (ZCA)

• Installation requirements

• Installation considerations

• Installation options

• Best practices

Module 3: Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs)

• Define Virtual Replication Appliances (VRA)

• Virtual Replication Appliances (VRA) requirements

• Source and target VRAs

• Zerto data path

• VRA cluster deployment

Module 4: Journal

• Journal overview

• Journal process

• Elastic Journal overview

• Journal settings

• Journal sizing

• I/O considerations

• Estimating Journal sizing

• Checkpoint overview

• Creating checkpoint

• Write-order fidelity

Module 5: Virtual Protection Groups (VPG)

• Types of VPGs

• Process

• Setting a VPG

• Creating a VPG

• One-to-many overview

• Local continuous backup

• Effective cloud utilization

• VPG replication prioritization overview

• VPG replication prioritization in GUI

Module 6: Zerto Replication

• Replication types

• Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) syncs overview

• Initial sync workflow

• Initial sync details

• Continuous data protection workflow

• Continuous data protection details

• Bitmap sync workflow

• Bitmap sync details

• Delta sync workflow

• Delta sync details

Module 7: Long-term Retention (LTR)

• Overview

• Architecture

• LTR with Amazon S3

• LTR with Microsoft Azure

• LTR repository

• LTR disk object map

• LTR process

• LTR scale-out-write

• Continuous data protection (CDP) with LTR

• LTR scale-out-read

• Index and search overview

• Index and search architecture

• Recovery with LTR

• LTR use cases

• Data protection workflows

• Disaster recovery and backup

• Immutability overview

• Tiering overview

• HPE StoreOnce overview

• HPE StoreOnce and Zerto

Module 8: Zerto Analytics (ZA)

• Zerto Analytics overview

• Zerto Analytics secure architecture

• Zerto Resource Planner overview

• Zerto Resource Planner requirements

• Zerto Resource Planner process

• Using Zerto Resource Planner

[Detailed lab outline]

Lab 1: Express Installation

Lab 2: License and Pair Zerto Sites

Lab 3: Virtual Replication Appliance Installation on Each Host

Lab 4: Create a Virtual Protection Group

Lab 5: Use Zerto Analytics to Review and Monitor Protection

Lab 6: Failover Test

Lab 7: Recovery Reports

Lab 8: Create One Last Virtual Protection Group

Lab 9: Copy a Virtual Protection Group

No prior Zerto experience is required.

The class assumes familiarity with VMware vSphere® and virtualization technologies.