• This topic has 7 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated August 11, 2015 by Gcoc G.

Snapshot Support

  • Jeff G
    July 29, 2015 05:21:46 PM

    When will Zerto support vm snapshots?

    Michael W
    July 29, 2015 05:23:07 PM

    Jeremy,

    Mind expanding with some specifics on what you’re looking for out of VM snapshots and how you would want Zerto to support them?

    Jeff G
    July 29, 2015 05:36:01 PM

    When failing over a vm I would like snapshots to follow it. I have had some instances where customers need the snapshot on a vm and when we failover it removes it.

    Jeff W
    July 30, 2015 01:09:10 PM

    Any details on why they need the snapshots from prod at the DR site where they have recovered to a point in time in the past? Sounds like there’s an opportunity for a feature requests here, but I think knowing why the snapshots at the recovery site are needed/expected would help us build the use case. Thanks Jeremy!

    Jeff G
    July 30, 2015 04:35:30 PM

    They only needed to failover for a short time, for maintenance I believe, but they wanted to keep the snapshot on the vm to retain some software changes. So in a perfect world the customer could have the snapshot on the vm, failover perform their maintenance then fail back and still have the snapshot.

    Chris S
    July 30, 2015 06:14:41 PM

    Thinking a little outside the box here…. How far back do the snapshots go? With the Zerto journal, you can in essence get the same coverage as the snapshots, for up to a maximum duration of 5 days. I understand it’s a different facility, but if the snapshots aren’t hanging around for very long, it’s a way to give you the same protection, and leverage all the benefits of using Zerto. Just a thought.

    Jeff G
    July 30, 2015 07:02:07 PM

    Unfortunately they need to snapshot much longer than 5 days. Is there any timeline on Zerto supporting vm snapshots?

    Gcoc G
    August 11, 2015 12:56:08 PM

    Since our 4.0 Update1, we extended the journal history to 14 days. Maybe this helps?

    A timeline when we would support keeping those snapshots is not present, as far as i know. But I will go and double-check this for you.

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