Zerto 9.0u2 – MSP & API Improvements

Hey everyone just a quick post today about the new Zerto version that has been released recently, they’re is a couple of things I want to point out that I think are worth noting!

Swagger API for the ZVM

now anyone who loves a little bit of automation will love the API , i actually found the Zerto API one of the more friendly API’s to use however Zerto have just made it a tonne easier! adding a swagger API allows to API Commands to be run from the web to try them out adn too help with constructing their own api calls for automation purposes.

As you can see above the API covers everything that you would expect inside the ZVM.

i’ll show you how to authenticate first:

Now we will use the Auth token we created to run an API call

Lets run the Peer Sites API and see the response and information we get back from calling the API.

It’s incredibly easy to run and gain lot’s of valuable information from it.

MSP Improvements

As you all know MSP and multi-tenancy is where my zerto career started so is got a place firmly in my heart, in this release we have seen some improvements for our MSP community.

VMware Cloud Director (VCD) reflection collection improvement

The VCD reflection collection mechanism was optimized to enhance performance and prevent CPU and
networking spikes in machines belonging to large-scale VCD environments.
The VCD CPU and the internal DB load are reduced due to:

• Limiting parallel calls to VCD
• Actively monitoring the calls to VCD to achieve a much more efficient process
• Optimizing ZVM queries to VCD

Hopefully these improvement can make Zerto more efficient in processing its data from VCD and make running at extreme scale easier.

I will be doing a follow up blog for some more API tasks that I think people may want to use

Thanks for reading

Chris