Protect a VM with disaster recovery

This section describes how to protect your VMs with the disaster recovery service (DRaaS).

Zerto will not protect certain VM configurations.
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.

Privileges: Manage VM disaster recovery protection

To protect a VM with the disaster recovery service:

Select the VM and click the shield Enable DR protection button

Enable DR protection of a VM

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

In the VM entity, the platform will set the drProtected attribute of the VM 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.