What’s new—HPE Zerto Software version 10 update 7

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HPE Zerto Software version 10 update 7 enhances security, scalability, and management with AWS scale-out, VMware VAIO support, role-based controls, and HashiCorp Vault integration.

What’s new—HPE Zerto Software version 10 update 7

IT infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud, continues to expand, and the threats from cyber criminals continue to evolve. Secure and scalable disaster recovery is needed now more than ever. With these areas of focus in mind, the latest update to HPE Zerto Software version 10 includes a number of features and improvements to enable organizations to scale protection even further while heightening security to prevent unauthorized access. These are highlighted updates to HPE Zerto in version 10 update 7.

AWS architecture scale-out

Recent updates to HPE Zerto Software for AWS introduced a new cloud-based virtual replication appliance (VRA) in addition to a new HPE Zerto cloud appliance. Previously, the appliance performed both the roles of management and handling replication, where now replication is handled by the VRA under the appliance management.

With version 10 update 7, HPE Zerto Software for AWS now automatically utilizes multiple VRAs to scale out to support protection of thousands of virtual machines (VMs). Testing has validated scale-out to more than 5000 VMs in this updated architecture. This architecture provides scalability both in performance and management, as the administration is centralized in a single appliance managing multiple VRAs for scale.

Enhanced protection with VMware VAIO

HPE Zerto Software will now support VAIO on the Microsoft Azure VMware Service (AVS). As with on-premises HPE Zerto for VMware, this update allows the enhanced security features usable with VAIO to be used on AVS.

Additionally, VMware encrypted disks are now supported for protection with HPE Zerto using VAIO, and there is now a conversion path from non-VAIO to VAIO for HPE Zerto to eliminate the need to fully rebuild protection when implementing VAIO in existing environments.

Role-based access controls for AWS

With HPE Zerto, VMs can be protected to, from, or within AWS, and the software provides two different management VMs: the HPE Zerto cloud appliance and the HPE Zerto In-Cloud Software for AWS management VM. Within these appliances, user security is managed by Keycloak, and with HPE Zerto version 10 update 7, both of these appliances now support role-based access.

To allow greater security, following principles like least-privileged access, various user roles can be defined within Keycloak, limiting the administrative access of user accounts managing the HPE Zerto appliances. This gives greater control to the security and administration of HPE Zerto Software for AWS.

Enhanced secrets management with HashiCorp Vault integration

HPE Zerto security features include secrets such as user credentials and encryption keys. HashiCorp Vault provides secrets management with enforceable security polices, rotating secrets, and enhanced identity checking. Organizations can use HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets across an enterprise, now including HPE Zerto, to better enforce security best practices, corporate security policies, achieve compliance, and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive recovery data.

To find out more details and for a full list of software changes in HPE Zerto Software version 10 update 7, check out the Release Notes.

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About the Author:
David Paquette
Product Marketing Manager, HPE