Hello -
Does anyone know what options we have once we hit the 10 VDP appliance limit? The limit sounds like it's imposed at the vCenter server level, so I'm assuming in we spin up another vCenter server, that would allow for another 10x appliances. However, I have no experience with how it works in managing multiple vCenter servers.
Can a VDP appliance attached to one vCenter server back up a VM from another vCenter server? I'm assuming the answer is no. Also, I'm not sure that scaling a backup solution with new instances of vCenter server is a great strategy (in fact, I'm certain it's not :-) )
Does anyone know if the 10-appliance limit will go up in future versions, or if we can "buy up" once we hit the 10-appliance limit? It seems like a strange limitation considering the scalability built into vCenter. A single vCenter server can manage 100's of hypervisors and 1000's of VMs. I can't imagine backing up 1000's of VMs with only 10 backup appliances.
I checked the data sheet for VDP "Advanced", but it has the same 10-appliance limit. Also, given how slow VDP is, we'll probably go with Veeam if we go the pay-for route (we're currently using the free version of VDP). Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,