Upgrading Zerto to 7.0u2

Hello,

Regarding your questions:

1) In the document it says: “During an upgrade from v6.5 to v7.0, Repositories that were created in 6.5 and all the retentions sets
they contain, will be available for Restores only.”

I am assuming this is only if you are using the Retention Policy for Offsite backup storage.  This does not affect the VPG’s and their normal DR capibilities and failover protection?

-You are right. It doesn’t affect the VPGs and their normal DR capibilities and failover protection. It’s only relevant to the long term retention feature.

2) In the the documentation it says: “Make sure that all VPGs are in the state Protecting, and not in a sync state, such as Delta Sync, or in an
error state, such as Needs Configuration.”

I do not see where it says State Protecting.  Does this equate to Protection Status Meeting SLA?

-Yes. Meeting SLA means that the VPG is being protected(replication is in progress). Protecting is not literally a state which you would see in the VPG description.

3) Should I evacuate the VM’s from the VRA’s before we upgrade them?

-It’s not necessary because upgrading VRA won’t take long and it will result in a small bitmap sync. For the recovery VRAs, if you evacuate the VMs by changing recovery VRA for the VMs, it will also result in bitmap sync, so I don’t see the necessarity to evacuate the VMs.

4) Should we upgrade the Recovery site or the Primary site first?

-It doesn’t matter which site you upgrade first. Either way works.

Yes 7.0 u2 supports VMware ESXi 6.5.0, 4564106. I’m not sure which issue you’re referring to but the previous version 7.0 & 7.0u1 didn’t support VMware ESXi 6.5 u3 which could cause some compatibility issues.