Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant ? Hyper V to VMware Environments

Position Title: Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant Hyper V to VMware Environments

Location: Greenville, South Carolina

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant to support the design, validation, and execution of disaster recovery operations for a production Hyper V based environment with replication to a VMware based DR tenant. The consultant will play a critical role in failover testing, recovery orchestration, cross hypervisor recovery, and the development of detailed DR runbooks to ensure business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

Disaster Recovery & Failover Execution

• Execute and validate Zerto-based failover and test failover operations for production workloads replicated from Hyper V to VMware environments.

• Bring replicated Active Directory Domain Controllers in isolated DR networks and validate directory services availability.

• Recover VM groups in a defined dependency-based sequence, ensuring proper service initialization and stability.

• Manage staggered VM startup to prevent service contention and application failures during recovery.

Cross Hypervisor Recovery Support

• Support and validate Hyper V to VMware recovery scenarios using Zerto.

• Ensure VMware Tools are leveraged for guest customization, network injection, and system configuration during DR boot up.

Windows Infrastructure & Application Services

• Provide hands-on support for Windows Server workloads including:

• Active Directory / Domain Controllers

• DNS

• DHCP

• IIS

• Dependent Windows services

• Validate application and service dependencies post failover to ensure functional recovery.

Networking & IP Remediation

• Execute and validate network re IP operations during failover due to non shared IP schemas between production and DR environments.

• Verify inter server communication, DNS resolution, and service bindings after recovery.

• Develop or assist with manual or orchestrated scripts/automation required for network and service remediation.

Failback & Validation

• Validate DR procedures for both:

• Live production failover events

• Failback to production scenarios

Runbook & Documentation Development

• Develop and refine Disaster Recovery runbooks using a provided template.

• Document:

• Step by step failover procedures

• Dependency mapping

• Recovery timing and sequencing

• Failback processes

• Update documentation iteratively based on validation testing results.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Hands on experience with Zerto replication and failover orchestration.

• Proven experience with Hyper V to VMware disaster recovery scenarios.

• Strong expertise in Windows Server environments, including AD, DNS, DHCP, and IIS.

• Solid understanding of networking concepts, IP addressing, and DNS/service dependency remediation.

Operational Skills

• Ability to plan and execute dependency aware recovery sequencing.

• Experience supporting multi-site DR environments and isolated recovery networks.

• Strong documentation and runbook development capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with DartPoints datacenter or cloud portal environments.

• Exposure to pilot light DR models and phased recovery strategies.

• Experience coordinating with infrastructure, networking, and application SMEs.

Engagement Scope

• Support DR testing and validation for production workloads hosted in customer datacenters.

• Collaborate closely with internal infrastructure, networking, and application teams during planning and execution.