What is VMware VDP?
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What is VMware VDP?
VDP is a robust, simple-to-deploy, disk-based backup and recovery solution. VDP is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and the VMware vSphere Web Client. VDP enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs while storing backups in deduplicated destination storage.
How do I access VMware VDP?
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.
How do I uninstall VDP?
Right-click the appliance and click Delete from disk. Using the Managed Object Browser, remove the vSphere Data Protection plug-in from vCenter Server: Open https://vcenterip/mob in a web browser. where vcenterip is the IP address of the vCenter Server or vCenter Server appliance.
What is VMware 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 backup data default retention period for VDP?
60 days
By default, the retention policy of a VDP Advanced backup job is 60 days. Use the options in the Retention Policy step to configure a retention policy that will meet the local backup retention requirements in your data center.
How do I remove VDP from vCenter?
Open https://vcenterip/mob in a web browser.
- When prompted, enter your vCenter Server credentials and log in.
- Click Content > Extension Manager.
- Confirm the following VDP package is present.
- Click Unregister Extension.
- In the Text field, enter:
- Click the Invoke Method button to remove the plugin.
What is the difference between HA and FT?
FT is notable for the absence of downtime, while HA requires time to reboot. In addition, HA works on each cluster, while FT works on each virtual machine.
What is the difference between high availability and fault tolerance?
The difference between fault tolerance and high availability, is this: A fault tolerant environment has no service interruption but a significantly higher cost, while a highly available environment has a minimal service interruption.
What is the difference between VM migration and replication?
VM backups are intended to store your data for as long as deemed necessary, so you can go back in time and restore what was lost, while VM replicas (the result of replication) are intended to restore the VMs as soon as possible, hence the differences in the technologies used to proceed with both.
What are two methods of VM replication?
virtual machine replication
- Real-time VM replication- Data is copied to the replicated VM as it is being written, giving the most precise backup. However, this requires a large amount of hardware and bandwidth.
- Point-in-time VM replication- This initiates data replication on a scheduled or requested basis.
What is retention of daily backup point?
What is the minimum allowed retention range for a daily backup point? Azure Virtual Machine backup policy supports a minimum retention range from seven days up to 9999 days.
Does HA work if vCenter is down?
Hello, HA will work, because there is an HA agent running on each host, and the hosts monitor each other and keep lists of running VMs that need to be restarted in case of a host failure. vCenter is just used to (de-)activate and configure HA.
Does fault tolerance use vMotion?
When the virtual machine is powered on or the feature is added to a running virtual machine, fault tolerance will basically do a vMotion to a second server in the cluster, but instead of completing the move like standard vMotion does, fault tolerance will keep the two servers in lockstep (via vLockstep Technology).
What is difference between HA and FT in VMware?
Within VMware, FT ensures availability by keeping VM copies on a separate host machine. With only HA configured, the hypervisor attempts to restart the VM on the same host cluster. If the physical infrastructure powering that host is having problems, HA may not work.
What are the two types of migrations between VM hosts?
The movement of VMs from one resource to another, such as from one physical host to another physical host, or data store to data store, is known as VM migration. There are two types of VM migration: cold and live. Cold migration occurs when the VM is shut down. Live migration occurs while the VM is actually running.
How many types of migration are there in VMware?
Depending on the virtual machine resource type, you can perform three types of migration. Moving a virtual machine, but not its storage, to another compute resource, such as a host, cluster, resource pool, or vApp. You can move the virtual machine to another compute resource by using cold or hot migration.
