vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a robust, simple to deploy, disk-basedbackup and recovery solution. VDP is fully integrated with the VMware vCenter Server and enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs while storing backups in deduplicated destination storagelocations.
The VMware vSphere Web Client interface is used to select, schedule, configure, and manage backups and recoveries of virtual machines. During a backup, vSphere Data Protection (VDP) creates a quiesced snapshot of the virtual machine. Deduplication is automatically performed with every backup operation.
Installing vSphere Data Protection 5.5 is very easy. Just download the vSphere Data Protection 5.5 OVA from VMware. Note-> there are three different versions of VDP 5.5 available and depending on your environment you will need to select a version. I selected the 1.0 TB version. Ensure DNS records are created for VDP 5.5 before deploying the appliance.
First deploy OVF file of VDP 5.5.
Enter the network settings such IP Address, Net mask & gateway. I added a host name and domain name. Also make sure that the hostname is resolvable through DNS,else you will get a error.
Minimum three disks are required for VDP storage disk. SO select 3.
https://vCenter Server IP:9443/vsphere-client & go to vSphere Data Protection & connect VDP appliance as shown below.
Click on getting started & create backup job as shown.
You can take full VM backup (full image) or Just disk backup by choosing individual disk option.
Select VM’s which you want to backup.