VMware Data Protection and Data Protection Advanced
With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware have announce a new backup appliance based on EMC Avamar. However there are also some limitations to the free vApp have. Recently Data Protection has release an Advanced version which was announced on the blog . To help everyone have a better understanding of the two I have done a summary as below. Here is some of the FAQ which you can read from here for more information. Below is a summary of the two editions. VDP VDP Advanced Per CPU licensed Included with vSphere Essential Plus and above Included in vSphere Enterprise with Operation Management and above Max deduplicated storage per appliance 3 favours of 0.5TB, 1TB, 2TB Dynamically provisioned up to 8TB Max supported VMs per appliance 100 400 Max appliances per vCenter 10 10 Full VM and file level recovery Yes Yes SQL & Exchange server ...