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giorgiogds
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vSphere Data Protecion 5.1

Hi,

few questions about vSphere Data Protection 5.1.

In the Admin Guide, installation requirements, nothing is mentioned about SAN/NAS, FC, iSCSI and so on.

Are there any special requirements or I can deploy the Appliance in any datastore I want like regular VM with its datastore ?

I'd like to deploy the vSphere Data Protection appliance storage on NL-SAS  disk and the VM itself on faster disk such as SAS.

Reading the Admin Guide I read only possible convert thick to thin, is it possible split the VM itself from the Datastore for the backup ?

Since is agent-less backup solution, I suppose it does snapshot of the VM, deduplicate and store in its datastore. Is it correct ?

What is the reasong of this port number ? vSphere Data Protection 111 TCP/UDP VDP ESX/ESXi rpcbind

Thanks, giorgio

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snekkalapudi
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi,

Answers for some of your questions..

- VDP supports most of the storage. Just that CIFS is not supported at the moment

- Not clear on your second question

- You are right

- Not sure about the port

-Suresh
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