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21 DISASTER RECOVERY GUIDE – Powered by ZERTO Sandbox testing With the failover testing functionality Zerto can also create a test- and development environment. Data migration Data center migrations and consolidations are massive time and resource consuming projects that must be carefully scheduled and planned to try to minimize downtime and loss of productivity. With Zerto's hypervisor-based replication technology however, migrations can be a near painless activity. Using the core attributes of ZVR, virtualized applications can be tested ahead of time, and migrated in just a few minutes with minimal downtime. • Simplicity – Migrating VMs is as simple as pointing the replication to the target datastore of choice and allowing the data to be replicated to the new site in the background from other business activities. • Granularity – Migrations can be very granular with the ability to migrate at the VM Disk (VMDK) level, which can be pointed to different tiers of storage. • Flexible – Support for a heterogeneous environment allows for migrations between different types of hardware and different VMware and Hyper-V versions, from a vCenter environment to a vCloud environment, and between different versions of ZVR • Fully automated moves – Leveraging the VPG configuration, moving VMs to a new location is accomplished simply and in just a few clicks. This dramatically reduces the application downtime to just a few minutes, ensuring revenue generating activities are not impacted. Long-term retention data copies Since the data is replicated to the DR site, it is easy create an offsite copy of the data for long-term retention or for compliance. This process and its infrastructure are not a part of the production site, removing the overhead and management burden, and can be managed from the same ZVR user interface. File and folder recovery The most common disasters that administrators need to recover from are not natural disasters or site outages, but lost or accidentally deleted files or folders. ZVR has solved this most frequent disaster problem by providing the ability to recover a single file or folder from up to 14 days in the past, using the Journal. The continuous block-level replication delivers recovery points just a few seconds apart, enabling IT to go to the point before the file was deleted or corrupted and recover it. This is executed in just a few clicks, and all work lost is extremely minimized. • Risk – Minimizes data loss across files, folders, VMs, applications, and sites with the ability to recover at any level, at any point in time. • Simplicity – Reduces mean time to recovery with the ability to leverage a automated workflow to recover files, applications and data. • Protect productivity - When a file or folder is accidentally deleted, end-users no longer need to recreate hours or a day of lost work, preserving productivity and employee morale.