Zerto virtual Replication Version 5.0 Enterprise Cloud Edition is now GA!
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Zerto announced the general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication Version 5.0 Enterprise Cloud Edition at November 15. The software is available in the Azure Marketplace or through one of over 1,500 Zerto Alliance Program channel partners worldwide.
Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 Key Features are
- Azure Support (ability to failover to Azure)
- One-to-Many Replication
- Zerto Mobile App for Monitoring
- 30-Day Journal History
This PDF provides an overview of what is new.
A new feature which was requested by many customers is the ability to use Azure as a target. Both vSphere and Hyper-V are supported for replication to Azure. The image below shows the architecture. In the Azure cloud a Zerto cloud Appliance is installed. This is a D3 sized virtual machine which receives the synchronized data from the source. Zerto VR does not use replica instances. Instead all replica data is stored in an Azure storage account. When a failover test or actual failover is initiated, instances will be created by Zerto VR. This method saves on costs for running replica instances in Azure doing nothing but getting the data sync.
