Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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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