What is vSphere Data Protection Advanced?

vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution designed for vSphere environments and powered by EMC Avamar. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection, available with most editions of vSphere, with greater scalability and enhanced functionality.

How do I access vSphere data protection?

Open the vSphere Web Client and click vSphere Data Protection in the left pane. If the status of VDP is reported as Not Connected, click Connect. Try restoring virtual machines and the actual instance of a backed up vCenter Server.

What is the supported maximum vSphere Data Protection appliances per vCenter Server instance?

vSphere Data Protection Advanced supports as many as 400 virtual machines per appliance. A maximum of 10 appliances per vCenter Server instance is supported.

What is VMware VADP?

VMware VADP is a VMware vStorage API that backs up and restores vSphere virtual machines (VMs). VADP was introduced in vSphere 4 and replaces the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework. Unlike VCB, which required users to install a separate component on the VCB proxy server, VADP is part of the backup product.

What is vSphere fault tolerance?

vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides a live shadow instance of a virtual machine (VM) that mirrors the primary VM to prevent data loss and downtime during outages.

What is VMware vSphere replication?

vSphere Replication is a deeply integrated VMware vSphere component. It is a robust hypervisor-based virtual machine replication engine. Changed data in virtual machine disks for a running virtual machine at a primary site is sent to a secondary site.

What is vSphere replication appliance?

What is vStorage API?

A vStorage API is an application program interface (API) from VMware that enables third-party storage and backup vendors to integrate their products with VMware’s vSphere server virtualization platform.

Will fault tolerance work if Vcenter goes down?

Fault Tolerance (FT) will continue to work for the configured VMs, but in case of a failover no new secondary will be created. All the VMs that are connected to a Distributed Switch (vDS) will continue to have network access, but you will not be able to make any changes to vDS configuration.