VDPA recommendations

[tku703]

Hello all,

I currently have a VMware 6.0 U2 environment with 250 VMs and would like to set up VDPA. I know there should be 100 VMs per VDPA appliance.  Now after I setup my first VDPA appliance, I begin to setup my backup job but when it come to choosing what to backup, I only see individual VMs, I cannot choose VMware folders which I've organized per application and function.  Seems like a bad design and hopefully that will change in future releases.

Has anyone configured multiple VDPA appliances and how/what solution did you come up with backing up 100+ VMs.

Thanks.

[rcporto]

When dealing with 100+ virtual machine, I usually use the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment, which address your business needs using Tags instead of Folder.

Regarding the VDP support for Folder, it supports, but only Host and Clusters folder, not virtual machine folder, see: vSphere Data Protection and vCenter Server Folders - VMware vSphere Blog

The blog post I mentioned is quite old, but there is another one which even on the version 6, there still no support for virtual machine folders or tags, see the comments: What's New with vSphere Data Protection 6.0 and vSphere Replication 6.0 - Virtual Blocks