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…