Plain Virtualization

As stated in my previous post ,  there was a bug in the Vmware Data Protection (VDP) which was release with vSphere 5.1 in backing up Windows 2008 R2 OS VM. As of today, a new release of VDP 5.1.10 is been release as stated here .  There are also some added enhancement which you can read about.  You may refer to the release notes here . With this release, the VDR to VDP migration utility is now make available.  I would like to stress this again, the migration only migrate the data and restore points and NO backup jobs are migrated.  Backup jobs need to be recreated in VDP.  There is no migration utility in VDP Advanced.  The correct way is to migrate from VDR to VDP then to VDP Advance.

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 ...