VSphere Data Protection Appliance Capacity For a better performance of vSphere Data Protection in a high-scaled environment, where Data Domain is the destination or the target, use the following reference to deploy the number of virtual machines according to the capacity of vSphere Data Protection appliance:.

VMware has some best practices when deploying VDP: But as usual, whenever I need to google a problem I always wind up on William Lam’s webpage – Thanks William! (note to self: Set the web browser start page to and save valuable time). Since I don’t have DNS in my lab I was not able to get passed the initial configuration wizard in the VDP, merely altering the hosts file was not enough. I had some issues with my small home lab, DNS needs to be set up and configured correctly with both forward and reverse lookups. Installation is straight forward, get the VDP OVA from VMware bundled with vSphere and deploy the appliance to a host in your environment. How to install, configure, backup and so on.įull disclosure: Amongst others, I’m a Veeam Certified Trainer but I’ll try my best not to be too biased. Since it’s been a while since I last had my hands on VDP, I thought it be a good idea to see how the product has evolved. The new release of VMware Data Protection, VDP for short, supports VMware ESXi 5.1 or later, vSAN 5.5 or later. The current release, version 6.1.3, was brought online on the 15:th of November 2016. It’s available as a stand alone OVA download but once deployed it integrates with the vSphere web client. VMware has for a pretty long time integrated (at least license wise) a backup engine with vSphere.

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