Architecture pattern for deploying HPE Zerto Software on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture
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This architecture pattern explains how to deploy HPE Zerto Software on VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC consolidated architecture deployment in IBM Cloud VPC. With HPE Zerto Software, you can increase the resiliency of your VMware Cloud Foundation instance and the workloads through a continuous data protection-based disaster recovery and data protection solution.
An overview of this architecture pattern is shown in the following diagram.
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Deploying HPE Zerto Software on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture deployment
The following diagram introduces the high-level steps to deploy HPE Zerto Software on a VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture. In this architecture pattern, HPE Zerto Software appliances are deployed into the management domain as virtual machines (VMs).
This architecture pattern deployment is summarized as follows:
- Create a bare metal server VLAN interface into management subnet for Zerto ZVM. Attach to equivalent management security groups. Add required DNS A and PTR records to the DNS service according to the HPE Zerto Software documentation and your solution requirements.
- Deploy Zerto ZVM into VMware® VM and attach it to the management DPG by using the provisioned IP address. Plan and size your deployment. Obtain a license through the VMware Solutions console.
- Create the required number of bare metal server VLAN interfaces with reserved IP addresses by using consecutive IP range into management subnet for Zerto VRAs. Attach to equivalent management security groups in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
- Configure Zerto ZVM and deploy VRAs by using the IP addresses attached to the VLAN interfaces.
Considerations for deploying HPE Zerto Software on VMware Cloud Foundation consolidated architecture
When you design or deploy this architecture pattern, consider the following information:
- Follow HPE Zerto Software best practices when you design your solution.
- When you replicate with HPE Zerto Software to on-premises or other VMware cloud, you need to establish connectivity to the replication source or target, depending on the wanted target.
- Design your connectivity by using the available connectivity pattern for HPE Zerto Software Replication.