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VMware Data Protection 5.1 reviewed
December 11th, 2012 | 
Author: People who have been using VMware Data Recovery quickly discovered that this product had issues. VMware’s take on Data Recovery was that they wanted to have a backup product for the smaller shops with a short time-to-market. Too bad it was this product that drove a lot of users to Veeam or PHDvirtual because of its many problems. In secrecy VMware started working together with EMC’s BRS division to build a brand new backup product leveraging EMC’s Avamar technology under the codename “Project Toystory”. This product has seen the light of day as “vSphere Data Protection 5.1” or vDP for short. In this post I will be looking into vDP version 5.1, which is actually the initial release.
Introduction to vSphere Data Protection 5.1
This is the first release of vDP, so actually a 1.0 version. I will not be expecting a fully feature-rich product, but one that actually WORKS would be nice. After all, it is a “free” product Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Storage, Virtual Backup, VMware | 
Tags: Avamar, Data Protection review, dedup, Dedupe, deduplication, EMC, EMC Avamar, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, source-based dedup, source-based deduplication, variable block size, variable block size dedup, variable block size deduplication, variable segment deduplication, vDP, vDP 5.1, vDP review, Veeam, VMware Data Protection, VMware Data Protection review | 
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