Chapter 3: CDP – Continuous Data Protection
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a new technology within Veeam Backup & Replication 11 that helps you to protect your mission-critical VMware Virtual Machines (VMs). CDP is beneficial when data loss for several seconds or even several minutes is not acceptable for your applications. Additionally, CDP provides a minimum Recovery Time Objective (RTO) as the VM replicas are in a ready-to-start state. This chapter will discuss what CDP is and the most efficient way to configure it using Veeam Backup & Replication. We will discuss setting up vSphere API for I/O Filtering (VAIO), configuring the source and target CDP proxies, and setting up a CDP policy. We will discuss the components that Veeam Backup & Replication uses for the CDP process. At the end of the chapter, you will have a better understanding of CDP.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding CDP and what it is...