Reinstall VDP Appliance From Zero

[virtualsolutio1]

Hi,

how can i reinstall from the deploy the VDP appliance ?

I have a corrupted appliance and i need to remove this.

I Have not backup, this is a test first setup.

Can i simply delete the Virtual Machine using Vcenter, an then start a new deploy.. ?

Many Thanks

[snekkalapudi]

Hi,

It depends on the VDP version.

If you are running 5.5 - You can re-deploy a new VDP appliance but you can still point the de-dupe disks from the old appliance (From disk-1 on-wards).This way you are not loosing the previous backups. You just need to power-off the old appliance.

If you are running below 5.5 version - You do not have an option other than to re-deploy the appliance. Just power-off the appliance and delete it.  Even if you see the VDP plug-in in the UI, you do not really have to care about it. Re-deploy a new appliance as usual.

[virtualsolutio1]

Thanks!,

There is an alternative way to deploy VDP  vSphereDataProtection-1.0TB.ova file ?

i have a 10M network and so i have some difficult, seem timeout.

Thanks!

[snekkalapudi]

All I can say is try the combinations (Web-Interface & Thick client). You may be lucky with one of them at-least.

[snekkalapudi]

Check this blog post for details - HOW TO -Attach data disks from an existing VDP appliance to a new VDP appliance? | { OneVirtual }