VMware vDR

1. Install vDR plug-in. Make sure you install the plug-in on the machine where you install vSphere Client, else it won't show "VMware Data Recovery" under "Solutions and Applications".

vDR (VMware Data Recovery)

Some facts about vDR

- supports only vSphere ESX/ESXi hosts while other more mature products support both VI3 and vSphere
- supports only 100 virtual machines per backup appliance and 2 TB of source data
- block-based deduplication technology (cannot be disabled)
- built using the new vStorage API's in vSphere and is not compatible with VI3 hosts and virtual machines
- can back up virtual machines even when they are moved to other hosts by VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- available only in the Essentials Plus, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus vSphere editions
- full backups are initially performed and subsequent backups are incremental
- File-level recovery is experimental and only supported on Windows systems

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usb not supported on VM and power on fail

After you add usb controller to VM, then you fail to powering on after you shut it down.

Here is the fix:

- edit .vmx, remove USB related line
- remove VM from inventory
- readd it to inventory