Hi There,
I've been working with VDP 5.5 recently and have a question regarding backup copy methods -- I know the typical method for backup is that the VDP appliance hot-adds the VMDK's of the backup source to the appliance and performs the disk copy, but was wondering if there's a network-copy fallback if hot-add is not possible.
If network copy is actually supported, is there a way to force this as the primary backup method?
Thanks!
D.
Fallback to NBD(Network Block Device) in your terms network-copy is the default behavior if hot-add cannot be engaged. But you cannot force it to be a primary backup method. As a workaround you can have your VM datastores not shared to VDP deployed host. That way hot-add cannot be engaged and so fallback to NBD is possible.
Hi
Welcome to the communities.
I don't think is there any other tool available than the way you are doing .
Fallback to NBD(Network Block Device) in your terms network-copy is the default behavior if hot-add cannot be engaged. But you cannot force it to be a primary backup method. As a workaround you can have your VM datastores not shared to VDP deployed host. That way hot-add cannot be engaged and so fallback to NBD is possible.