vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is an easy-to-deploy, Linux-based virtual appliance that leverages EMC Avamar to provide the backup and recovery of virtual machines. Before the release of vSphere 6, VDP was available in two versions: VDP and VDP Advance. VDP Advance required a separate license to enable advanced features. In VDP 6, these have been combined and VDP 6 includes all the capabilities, with no requirement for additional licensing. VDP 6 provides the following capabilities:
8TB of deduplicated capacity per VDP appliance
An application-aware agent for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Sharepoint
Backup replication to another VDP appliance
Automated backup verification
Backup to an EMC Data Domain appliance
In order to deploy VDP, perform the following steps:
Download the VMware Data Protection appliance from http://www.vmware.com/go/download-vsphere.
Deploy the vSphere Data Protection Appliance from the OVA. Enter the appliance...