VSphere Data Protection

vSphere Data Protection: Backup and Recovery Solution for vSphere

vSphere Data Protection is a backup and recovery solution included with vSphere. It provides agentless, image-level VM backup and recovery, with features like deduplication, changed block tracking, and incremental backups to reduce storage usage. Simple to deploy and manage.

What is VSphere Data Protection?

vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a disk-based backup, replication, and recovery solution that is integrated with VMware vSphere. VDP provides agentless, image-level backups of virtual machines that eliminate the need to install backup agents on each VM.

Key features and capabilities of VDP include:

• Agentless backups - Backups are performed at the ESXi hypervisor layer without needing agents on VMs.
• Image-level backups - Full VM images are backed up, enabling fast whole VM or file-level restores.
• Incremental backups - Only changed blocks are backed up after the first full backup, reducing storage utilization.
• Deduplication - Redundant data is identified and removed to optimize storage capacity.
• Built-in replication - VM data can be replicated to a remote site for disaster recovery.
• Centralized management - VDP is managed through the vSphere Web Client alongside vSphere.
• Tight integration with vSphere - Simple workflow for protecting vSphere VMs.

VDP provides a simple and cost-effective data protection and recovery solution for smaller vSphere environments. It eliminates the complexity of traditional backup software with agentless architecture and simple management through vSphere.

VSphere Data Protection Features

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