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vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Replication Target details

Vladan SEGET — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:00:15 +0000

vSphere Data Protection (VDP) product bundled with vSphere Essentials plus and higher licensing is backup and replication product which is managed through web based UI only. It's tightly integrated to the Web based client console. I've deployed the product in the past and also upgrades are quite easy to proceed too. VMware keeps making the […]

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VMware vSphere Data Protection – How to Reattach Data Disks if VDP Appliance Won’t Start

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:11:41 +0000

In case VDP appliance has problem and cannot boot up there is still a way to recover your backups even if your VDP appliance was not backed up (the system) or copied elsewhere. This is because the actual backups are stored at the data disks. Normally the best practice is to deploy the VDP […]

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vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – restore operations

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:31 +0000

In my previous post you had the possibility to follow on how to configure the backup jobs through the VDP. In this article you'll see the restore operations and also some options on further configuration this backup appliance through your browser, which might be usefull in the future. There are all the configuration options (which […]

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vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – backup and master

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:56:18 +0000

vSphere Data Protection – configuring your first backup. In the first part of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – install, configure, manage – you have learned on how to architect this solution and prepare for deployment. In this part we will configure some backups. When you first connect to your vCenter through the web client, you […]

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vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – install, configure, manage

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:43:58 +0000

vSphere Data protection – a quick guide how to do a VDP install, deploy and use. vSphere Data Protection is a new backup product, which does not bring an additional cost, but it's included in vSphere Essentials Plus and higher VMware vSphere package. The product is based on EMC's Avamar code and present an interesting upgrade […]

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vSphere Data Protection – a new backup product included with vSphere 5.1

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:09:13 +0000

This new backup product replaces VMware Data Recovery, which has been introduced in vSphere 4.0 and which will still be supported. But from vSphere 5.1 the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is going to be The Backup product bundled with vSphere. The VDP has the most of the code from EMC's Avamar backup product and in […]

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