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VMware NSX with Zerto.

Hi all, In this blog I wanted to share a lessons learned when using VMware NSX with Zerto for disaster recovery purposes. Just a bit of background first, I am using for this blogpost a 3-site architecture:          Management site: here vSphere, NSX manager and the Zerto Virtual Manager are hosted. This site manages both Site A and Site B.          Site A: Our production site with a web and an application server.          Site B: Our DR site for fail-over purposes. Background For Disaster Recovery (DR) we use Zerto to protect both our WEB and APP servers. Zerto copies the data from both VM’s from Site A to Site B, so in case site A becomes unavailable we can recover the servers. To protect the servers from a network and security perspective we use VMware NSX and leverage the Distributed Firewall (DFW) and NSXs’ micro-segmentation capabilities. For our application servers we create a...