Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Technical White Paper - VMware vSphere Data Protection - Eric Sloof

With VMware vSphere 5.1, VMware is releasing a new backup and recovery solution for virtual machines called vSphere Data Protection (VDP). This solution is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and provides agentless, disk-based backup of virtual machines to deduplicated storage.

Benefits of VDP include the following:


* It ensures fast, efficient protection for virtual machines even if they are powered off.
* It uses patented deduplication technology across all backup jobs, significantly reducing disk space consumption.
* VMware vSphere APIs – Data Protection (VADP) and Changed Block Training (CBT) are utilized to reduce load on the vSphere host and minimize backup windows requirements.
* It performs full virtual machine and File-Level Restore (FLR) without installing an agent in every virtual machine.
* Installation and configuration is simplified using an appliance form factor.
* Management is performed utilizing the VMware vSphere Web Client.
* The VDP appliance and its backups are protected using a checkpoint and rollback mechanism.
* Windows and Linux files can easily be restored by the end user without a Web browser.

This paper presents an overview of the architecture, deployment, configuration, and management of VDP.

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2108-Technical-White-Paper-VMware-vSphere-Data-Protection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ntpronl+%28Eric+Sloof+%7C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntpro.nl%29

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