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VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced announced

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced announced

Today VMware announced a new version on their backup product vSphere Data Protection. They gave it the “extra” name called “Advanced”. What is it? vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection – available with all vSphere editions – to provide the most proven, efficient and easy-to-use protection for virtual machines with greater scalability and integration with business-critical applications. Features Besides…

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vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

With the new release on vSphere 5.1 VMware also released a new backup tool called vSphere Data Protection (VDP). This will replace the previous tool called vSphere Data Recovery. With this tool VMware will compete with other third-party software vendors like Veeam and PHD. What is it? vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a new disk-based backup and recovery solution which is released as an appliance (again based on SuSE Linux 11). This solution is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server…

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