Protect a VM with disaster recovery

A user can protect their VMs with the disaster recovery service (DRaaS).

Zerto will not protect certain VM configurations and this limitation is described at Zerto Documentation of unprotected_vms_learn_why.

For example, Zerto will not protect vSphere VMs that have DVDs or IDE devices.

We recommend that you protect a deployed VM when it is powered on.

Privilege: Manage VM disaster recovery protection

To protect a VM with the disaster recovery service:

The platform will register the VM for disaster recovery protection and display a shield symbol on the VM icon.

You can reconfigure a VM has DR protection but you cannot move it

In the VM entity, the platform will set the VM drProtected attribute to true for use with the Abiquo API.

To stop a VM from being protected by the disaster recovery service, click the crossed shield disable DR protection button.