What problems does VRD have with over 1TB datastores? one of our home dir servers is nearing 1.5tb's and we want to try using vrd to reduce its backup size and duration. also have about 50 other vms we would like to vdr.
2nd question, how would i reliably copy the data store data to tape and have it usable in a DR situation?
Thanks
Don
The problem isn't the size of the datastore, it treats each VM individually not as a complete vmfs volume, so as far as I know there are not probs, but I heard people said over 100GB VM's have issues.
And VDR is very limited for the moment, tape or any options other than a CIFS/Windows share RDM as a backup drive are your only options.
So if you want to use tape you need to use another device to copy the VDR datastore, but that might be difficult.
You could install a backup agent (whatever vendor your shop uses) on the vDR appliance to back up the dedupe store. However, the dedupe store can't be in use when you back it up (no backups, integ checks running, etc...). You can check the running tasks to see if a task is running on the store. You don't really know when an integ check is going to kick off either, so that's somethink to think about as well.
