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This\nrecovery solution continuously replicates critical infrastructure and application virtual\nmachines (VMs) from your on-premises vCenter to\nyour private cloud.\n\nIf you have an existing Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud with a previous version of Zerto Solution, you must update to the VAIO variant of Zerto Solution version 10.0_U7. For conversion instructions,\nsee [Converting an Existing non-VAIO Deployment to the VAIO Variant](https://help.zerto.com/bundle/Linux.ZVM.HTML.10.0_U7/page/Converting_to_VAIO.htm).\n| **Note:** For information about sizing your disaster recovery environment, see the [Journal Overview Sizing and Best Practice](https://help.zerto.com/bundle/BP.Journal.Sizing.HTML/page/Journal_Overview_Sizing_and_Best_Practice.htm) article.\n\nThis recovery solution offers the following benefits:\n\n- Eliminates the need to set up a data center specifically for disaster recovery.\n- Helps with worldwide geographic resilience by leveraging the Google Cloud locations where VMware Engine is deployed.\n- Gives you an option to reduce deployment costs and total cost of ownership for disaster recovery.\n\nThis recovery solution requires you to do the following:\n\n- Install, configure, and manage Zerto Solution in your private cloud.\n- Provide your own licenses for Zerto Solution when the private cloud is the protected site. You can pair Zerto running on the site with your on-premises site licensing.\n\nZerto disaster recovery architecture\n------------------------------------\n\nBefore you begin\n----------------\n\nTo enable Zerto Virtual Replication from your on-premises environment to your\nprivate cloud, complete the following prerequisites:\n\n1. [Connect your on-premises network to your VMware Engine private cloud](/vmware-engine/docs/networking/howto-connect-to-onpremises).\n2. [Set up DNS lookup of your private cloud management components from your on-premises network to forward requests to your private Cloud DNS servers](/vmware-engine/docs/networking/howto-dns-on-premises). To enable forwarding of DNS lookup, create a forwarding zone entry in your on-premises DNS server for `gve.goog` to private Cloud DNS servers.\n3. Set up DNS lookup for on-premises vCenter components to be forwarded to your on-premises DNS servers. The DNS servers must be reachable from your private cloud.\n4. Install a Microsoft Windows server on your private cloud.\n5. Install Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) on the Windows server.\n6. Identify a [solution user account](/vmware-engine/docs/vmware-platform/howto-solution-user-accounts) to use with ZVM, and set a strong password for the solution user account.\n\n### Optional configuration on your private cloud\n\n1. Create one or more resource pools on your private cloud vCenter to use as target resource pools for VMs from your on-premises environment.\n2. Create one or more folders on your private cloud vCenter to use as target folders for VMs from your on-premises environment.\n3. [Create subnets](/vmware-engine/docs/networking/howto-create-vlan-subnet) on your private cloud for your failover network and set up required firewall rules.\n\nDeploy a disaster recovery solution using Zerto in your private cloud\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFollow the [Zerto documentation](https://help.zerto.com/) for deploying the Zerto Virtual Replication\nsolution on your private cloud. The private cloud can be a protected site or a\nrecovery site of your Zerto Solution.\n\n### Set up workload automation on Zerto Virtual Manager of your private cloud\n\nThe following sections describe the required and optional workload automation\nsettings on Zerto Virtual Manager of your private cloud. These settings must be\nenabled to ensure Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance is gracefully managed during the node addition\nand host maintenance of nodes of your private cloud.\n\n1. In the Zerto Virtual Replication interface, under **Site Settings** , select **Workload Automation**.\n2. Select **Enable VRA auto evacuation once entering maintenance mode** option in **Host Maintenance Mode** section. This option is required to gracefully evacuate VRA during a failed node replacement, private cloud node removal and upgrades or patching of your private cloud.\n3. Optionally select : **Enable VRA auto installation once host is added to cluster** option in **VRA Deployment** section. Enabling this option allows Zerto Virtual Replication to deploy a Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance when you expand your private cloud cluster.\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\n- Read the [Zerto documentation](https://help.zerto.com/).\n- [Learn about high availability for VMware virtual machines](/vmware-engine/docs/concepts-high-availability-vmware)."]]