vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

[Anunn]

Hi, we deploy vSphere Data Protection from OVF template, after completion we found 7 virtual disk listed in the vm properties with 1x100GB disk and 6x256GB disk, we just couldn't understand why the template gave us 7 disk, a google search didn't really give us any clue either.

[snekkalapudi]

You might have deployed 1TB appliance.

The space on disk for a 1TB appliance is 1600GB (100+6*256) approximately.

[Anunn]

Thank you snekkalapudi but I'm wondering why can't we just have 1TB disk instead

[snekkalapudi · Accepted solution]

Few might have space limitations.This is for flexibility.

Disks other than the 1st one are data disks and you have flexibility to migrate them to different datastores after deployment.

[Anunn]

Thank you snekkalapudi for answering the question, also can data disk reside on seperate data store? Like disk 2-4 at ds1 and 5-7 at ds2?

[snekkalapudi]

Yes. It Can. Absolutely no issues.