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What is Data Domain in VMware?

What is Data Domain in VMware?

Data Domain Virtual Edition delivers industry leading protection storage that is software defined – for a simple, flexible and efficient solution that can be deployed in minutes, allow you to grow as you need, and gain the efficiency of a virtualized environment.

What is VMware VDP?

VDP is a robust, simple-to-deploy, disk-based backup and recovery solution. VDP is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and the VMware vSphere Web Client. VDP enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs while storing backups in deduplicated destination storage.

How do I access VDP appliance?

Access the Web interface at https://:8543/vdp-configure, where you’ll see a login screen for the appliance configuration. The initial credentials are the username root, with password changeme. Once successfully logged in, you’ll be presented with a configuration wizard.

How do I uninstall VDP?

Right-click the appliance and click Delete from disk. Using the Managed Object Browser, remove the vSphere Data Protection plug-in from vCenter Server: Open https://vcenterip/mob in a web browser. where vcenterip is the IP address of the vCenter Server or vCenter Server appliance.

How do I add a disk to a Data Domain?

To do this, open the VM settings panel in the hypervisor and select ‘Add a New Hard Disk’ under the ‘New Devices’ tab. Set the size accordingly, remembering that the 1st Data disk needs to be a minimum size of 200GB and subsequent disks thereafter need to be 100GB or more.

How do I start a VDP service?

To work around this issue, start the maintenance service manually from the VDP Configuration UI:

  1. Log in to the vSphere Data Protection through the vSphere Web Client.
  2. Go to Configuration > Status tab.
  3. Start the maintenance services.

How do I restart VDP appliance service?

Manually restart all services using the VDP Configuration Utility. Access to the VDP Appliance from the vSphere Web Client. Navigate to the License Assignment portlet on the Configuration tab. Add the new permanent license key to the system.

How do you Unfail a disk in data domain?

How to Unfail a Data Domain Disk

  1. Verify the disk is not defective by replacement or by validating the drive has not failed.
  2. From the command line run the following: disk unfail
  3. Depending on your version of DD OS, run the command below to verify disk status: For: DD OS 4.x.

What is Dell Data Domain System Manager?

DDMC or Data Domain Management Center (DD Management Center) is a scalable, virtual appliance-based solution for centralized management of multiple Data Domain systems and virtual data protection appliances (DD VE instances). It provides current and historical data for all of your managed Data Domain systems.

How do I access VDP console?

To bring VDP online again and to restore vCenter Server:

  1. Redeploy a new temporary instance of vCenter Server with the same IP and DNS hostname.
  2. Click the Configuration tab.
  3. Click the lock to unlock the configuration and enter the VDP appliance password.
  4. Provide the new vCenter Server details.
  5. Reboot the VDP appliance.

What is a data domain example?

The rule for determining the domain boundary may be as simple as a data type with an enumerated list of values. For example, a database table that has information about people, with one record per person, might have a “marital status” column.

What is meant by data domain?

A data domain defines the type of data value that is held by an attribute in a data model. UDMH is delivered with predefined data domains.