Techarex Networks Introduces Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRAAS) in United States

Every IT infrastructure will fail. How and when are just variables.
To help our customers prepare for these unplanned events, were introducing the best-in-class Disaster Recovery as a Service
(DRaaS) offering. We partnered with Zerto to build a DRaaS offering that leverages hypervisor-based replication technology.
Our offering provides the only business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities for protecting mission-critical
applications deployed in virtualized data centers and cloud environments.
By working within an applications IO stream, Techarex Networks DRaaS delivers:

Failover one or more Virtual Protection Groups across VM platforms (VMware & Hyper-V)

Recovery to historic points-in-time with journal-based CDP

Instant application recovery, in full read-write mode with RTO in minutes and RPO in seconds

Scheduled test failover, including full remote recovery in a sandbox zone

Migration of workloads to a remote data center

This is a fully managed service where Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) monitoring is performed regularly and youll
receive reports documenting BC/DR test results.

Technology overview Zerto DR for Virtualized world

Zertos hypervisor-based replication software enables alignment of your Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan
with your IT strategy. By using hypervisor-based data replication, you can reduce DR complexity and hardware costs and still
protect your mission-critical virtualized applications, servers, and databases whether youre using VMwares vSphere hypervisor
or Microsofts Hyper-V.
Key Benefits
Reduce hardware cost

Replicate from any type of storage to any type of storage.

Leverage existing, underutilized storage as the replication target.

Leverage lower-cost storage at the offsite replication site.

Reduce Complexity and Streamline IT Operations

Zerto dramatically reduces your day-to-day management complexity and streamlines your operations, eliminating the
complexity typically associated with managing BC/ DR software solutions. Many of the manual tasks associated with a
typical DR solution are automated with Zerto, reducing or eliminating errors.
Select a VM in VMWare vSphere vCenter and, with a few clicks, it is replicated and protected.
Zerto fully automates the entire failover and failback process, including creation of all the VMs, reconfiguring IP addresses
and executing custom scripts.
Absolutely NO snapshots. Zerto uses continuous replication and does not utilize snapshots which can slow down your
production environment.
With Zertos unique Virtual Protection Group concept, you can protect an entire application spanning multiple VMs with
a single policy and a single automated failover and failback process.
Zerto seamlessly supports VMWare VMotion, DRS and HA, plus Storage VMotion and DRS. With Zerto, you are able to
fully realize the benefits of VMWare and ensure your data protection strategy is maintained exactly as you have specified.
Zertos software-automated installation does not require any changes to your storage or server infrastructure, making
deployment simple and straightforward. The entire install process is completed in minutes.

Powerful BC/DR for Mission-Critical Applications

Protecting mission-critical applications, servers, & databases is not only about copying data. It is about ensuring application
replication & recovery, protecting from logical errors and frequently testing failover to ensure you can recover when needed.

Protect entire applications by selecting the VMs that are part of the application and let Zerto do the rest.
Ensure consistent application protection and recovery with Zertos Virtual Protection Group, with or without VSS (volume
shadow copy) support.
Test failover with the click of a button, while maintaining protection of your production application.
Recover from logical errors with point-in-time recovery, enabling you to failover to a previous point in time.

Replication for VMware vSphere

Zertos replication for VMwares vSphere enables automated data recovery, failover and failback and lets you select any VM in
VMwares vCenter. No storage configuration necessary, no agent installation on guest required.

VMware Replication Solution without Storage Constraints

Zertos VMware Replication software protects at the VM and VMDK level, which means that protection decisions can be
made without any storage constraints.

Replicate single or multiple VMs

Use an intuitive GUI embedded in VMwares vCenter

Protect multiple virtual disks connected to the same VM

Recover immediately with the click of a button

Support replication of RDM devices

View and manage local and remote sites from the same vCenter

Deliver consistent protection across your company with the ability to support multiple sites

Enterprise Class Replication for VMware

Zerto designed Enterprise-Class replication for VMware to replace array-based replication. It provides the flexibility, scalability
and ease of use expected in the virtual world without compromising any of the features and functionality required for
protecting mission-critical production applications.

Achieve seconds of RPO with continuous replication

Recover applications instantly and automatically, providing RTO of minutes

Protect thousands of VMs with scale-out replication architecture

Reduce application performance impact to zero by eliminating snapshots

Recover from logical or operator errors with journal-based, point-in-time recovery

The size of the journal automatically increases and decreases based on the amount of changed data,
ensuring protection even when applications generate large bursts of data.

Monitor and report with built-in reporting and performance UI

Centralized management simplifies tasks, ensuring application availability

Remote Office / Branch Office (ROBO) protection extends disaster recovery to branch offices or
environments managed by a single vCenter

Recovery validation for live failover

Increased manageability of alerts and events with a new centralized tab for better cause/effect analysis

Expanded REST API capabilities for orchestration, events and alerts

Improved environment maintenance using new VRA tabs and workflows

Multi-tier Application Protection & Recovery

Protect applications, not LUNs! With Zertos Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs), you can group VMs and virtual disks to be protected
and recovered together. This provides complete consistency, regardless of physical location on servers and storage.

Parallel recovery accelerates large application availability

Group VMs and virtual disks into VPGs
Maintain all properties of VPGs, VMs and vApps
Test recovery, failover and failback of entire VPGs
Support VMotion, storage VMotion, DRS and HA while replicating
Multi-site replication, protection and migration, enabling the protection of data at branch offices
Offsite cloning and backup create a copy of VMs on the replication site for testing, backup or development, with no
impact on the production environment
Get application protection policy and QoS
Leverage built-in support for VSS and VMware vApp objects

Complete BC/DR: Replication, Testing, Recovery, CDP, Migration, Reporting

Zerto eliminates the need to use multiple solutions for your business continuity and disaster recovery needs. All required
workflows and functionality are built-in with easy-to-follow, scalable wizards, empowering you to:

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Recovery reports document execution of BC/DR processes, for easy auditing and reporting
test-before-you-commit function allows test of a specific failover point before committing it, enabling
100% assurance that failover will be successful
Failover one or more VPGs through automated failback
Recover to a historic point-in-time with journal-based CDP
Recover applications instantly, in full read-write mode
Test failover, including full remote recovery in a sandboxed zone
Migrate workloads to a remote datacenter
Monitor with Recovery Time Objective (RTO) reports documenting results of BC/DR tests
Enhanced Alert Handling (Include applicable problem and resolution information

Offsite Backup

Zerto Offsite Backup increases the usefulness of data that is replicated for the purposes of business continuity and disaster
recovery (BC/DR). A duplicate backup infrastructure is no longer required for backup, significantly reducing the overhead on the

production environment. Zerto Virtual Replication extends the journal, which offers continuous data protection for up to 5 days
worth of data, retaining daily, weekly, and monthly copies of data.

Automate retention management, ensuring that the following is available at all times per Virtual Protection Group
(VPG): Daily copies for the last week, Weekly copies for the last month, Monthly copies for the last year
Configure backup start times and target repository
Ensure backup or disaster recovery operations are executed as needed
Review backups and retention times to ensure business requirements are met
Configure reports to be sent on a daily or weekly basis to provide complete backup information

vCloud Director Integration

vCloud 5.1 seamless integration including native support for vApps, Storage Profiles, Org Networks, Provider VDC and
more
Easily replicates between vSphere and vCloud environments

New! Cross Hypervisor Replication

Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0 introduces support for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere which enables cross-hypervisor
replication and recovery, an industry first. With automatic conversion of VMs, you no longer need to match hypervisors
between your data centers.

Zertos cross-hypervisor replication helps:

Remove barriers to innovation by leveraging the right hypervisor for any use case
Migrate workloads fast to new IT infrastructure accelerating ROI new investments
Maximize the business impact of new hardware with application migrations

New! Replication to AWS

Zerto Virtual Replication for Amazon Web Services (AWS) 1.0. is the industrys first enterprise class disaster recovery solution

from on-premise datacenters to AWS. The product provides consistent and continuous replication of production workloads
from VMware and Microsoft environments to AWS.
Zerto Virtual Replication for AWS 1.0 helps:

Replace a large capital cost with a simple recurring expense

Leverage AWS for production eliminating capital costs and obtain resources on demand
Leverage AWS for test and development

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Hypervisor Replication

Introducing Hypervisor-based Replication. Zerto offers a virtual-aware, software-only, tier-one, enterprise-class replication
solution purpose-built for virtual environments. By moving replication up the stack from the storage layer into the hypervisor,
Zerto created the first and only replication solution that delivers enterprise-class, virtual replication and BC/DR capabilities
for the data center and the cloud.

Zerto architecture: Simple, effective, and virtual-ready

At the heart of this patent-pending replication technology are two key components:

Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) The ZVM plugs directly into the virtual management console (such as VMWares VCenter),
enabling visibility into the entire infrastructure. The ZVM is the nerve center of the solution, managing replication for the
entire VSphere domain, keeping track of applications and information in motion in real time.

Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) The VRA is a software module that is automatically deployed on the physical hosts. The
VRA continuously replicates data from user-selected virtual machines, compressing and sending that data to the remote site
over WAN links.

Key Differences with Hypervisor-based Replication:

Because it is installed directly inside the virtual infrastructure (as opposed to on individual machines), the VRA is able to tap
into a virtual machines IO stream. Therefore, each time the virtual machine writes to its virtual disks, the write command is
captured, cloned, and sent to the recovery site.

Unlike some replication technologies that primarily offer data protection along with cumbersome snapshots and
backup paradigms, Zertos solution provides continuous replication with zero impact on application performance.

Hypervisor-based replication is fully agnostic to storage source and destination, natively supporting all storage platforms
and the full breadth of capabilities made possible by virtualization, including high availability, clustering, and the ability to
locate and replicate volumes in motion.
Hypervisor Advantages

Hypervisor-based replication offers many important benefits:

Granularity: the ability to replicate at the correct level of any virtual entity, be it a single virtual machine, a group of virtual
machines, or a virtual application (such as VMWare VApp). With Zerto, youre backed up beyond mere backup.

Scalability: Zertos hypervisor-based replication solution is software-based so it can be deployed and managed
easily, no matter how fast or large the infrastructure expands. The solution also enables administrators to perform
operations and configure policies at the level of the virtual machines or applications.

Ease of management: With no guest-host requirements or additional hardware footprint, Zertos solution is easy to
manage. It simply resides in the hypervisor, enabling centralized management from the virtual management
console (such as VMWare VCenter).

Server and storage motion: Only hypervisor-based replication allows you to quickly move virtual machines
around from one physical server or array logical unit (data store) to another, while maintaining full replication.

Hardware-agnostic: Hypervisor-based replication is hardware-agnostic, supporting all storage arrays including Storage
Area Network (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS), and virtual disk types such as Raw Device Mapping (RDM)
and VMWare File System (VMFS).
RPO and RTO: Zertos hypervisor-based replication solution achieves RPO in seconds, and RTO in minutes.

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