What is a VADP?
The vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) is a marketing term for a subset of the vSphere API that enables backup and restore applications. The snapshot-based VADP framework allows efficient, off-host, centralized backup of virtual machine storage. VADP is presented in Backing Up Virtual Disks in vSphere.
How does VADP work?
VADP backs up vSphere VMs from a central backup server or VM without backup agents, and does not require backup processing to be done inside each guest VM on the ESX host. This offloads backup processing from ESX hosts and allows each ESX host to run more VMs.
What is vSphere data protection?
General. Q: What is VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)? VDP is a robust, simple-to-deploy, disk-based backup and recovery solution. VDP enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs while storing backups in deduplicated destination storage.
What is VADP proxy?
In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, you can create proxies to run VMware backup jobs by using vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) in Linux environments. The proxies reduce demand on system resources by enabling load sharing and load balancing.
What is vStorage API?
A vStorage API is an application program interface (API) from VMware that enables third-party storage and backup vendors to integrate their products with VMware’s vSphere server virtualization platform.
Is vSphere data protection free?
Dell EMC is offering current vSphere Data Protection customers a free migration to the more robust and scalable Avamar Virtual Edition for backup and recovery of their overall SDDC environments.
What is VMware vShield endpoint?
VMware vShield Endpoint lets you manage anti-virus and anti-malware policies for virtualized environments with the same management interfaces you use to secure physical infrastructure.