Category Archives: DR/BC Solutions

How to install and configure VMware vSphere Replication (Hypervisor Based Replication) 6.0?

VMware vSphere Replication (Hypervisor Based Replication HBR) is a solution included in the Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions of vSphere. As I mentioned in Site Recovery Manager: Architecture Overview and Features vSphere replication can be used with SRM for Disaster Recovery purpose. However, SRM is not necessary, just potentially VMs recovery in DR would… Read More »

How to install Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 or 6.x Part 2: using external database.

In the previous post here I showed how to install Site Recovery Manager using embedded database. In this post I will show how to install Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 or 6.x using external database. Installing Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with external database To install Site Recovery Manager with external database please follow below steps… Read More »

Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0: Architecture overview and features.

Today Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0 has been released. This is a solution providing a business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) in a virtual environment (Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and Amazon AWS). Comparing to Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5, the architecture has not been changed but there are some new features: New User Interface (totally a new… Read More »