Monday, July 25, 2011

restore to proxy on VADP

With VADP out in 2010, VCB will be out of the picture. However, one thing I don't like about VADP is the lack of restore of the whole image to the proxy host. I know it is not available in NetWorker. When I check the NetBackup guide, I don't see that option too. It will be required to restore directly to ESX host.

Believe it or not, when I work in support, I always discover customer has no space in the SAN for recovery of large VM and they want to keep existing VM. Now, I cannot recover the whole image to proxy and then use VMconverter to move it to a VM Workstation. It has to be recovered to ESX. I will consider it a lack of feature when comparing it with VCB.