Hello -
Does anyone know if VDP Advanced is any faster than the 'regular' free version? We finally finished our Production deployment of the 'free' version of VDP, and it on days with heavy data change (higher than average client processing for our application), it has a tough time finishing within the backup window. For VDP appliances that have to backup VMs over the network (meaning the VDP appliance and VM are not on the same hypervisor), we regularly fail due to the backup window cut-off.
My thinking is, if we were to upgrade to Advanced (for the extra capacity), I don't think we could get 4TB of data through the appliance on a daily backups schedule (definitely no chance of using the 8TB version in our environment). I think we'd have to create a staggered every-other day schedules (or something similar). What we can't figure out is why it's slow - As far as we can tell, nothing is maxed out - CPU stays below 50%, and Disk I/O seems lower than other VMs on the same Hypervisor. Possibly it's the complexity of the Disk I/O due to the nature of de-duplication?
Any suggestions for increasing speed on their version would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
- Jeff