I like to know how integrated is vdr into vcenter the reason I'm asking is because I had 8 backups running with vdr when I had to reboot my vcenter server I logged back into to vcenter afterward and then vdr and I noticed that all of the 8 backups that were running disappearred and a recatalog is running, checking the event log of vdr it thinks that a system crash occurred but the vdr appliance did not crash or reboot. I thought that the vdr was independent of vcenter and that backups would still run without vcenter. I thought I read in some previous post that people said you could do vdr restore without vcenter by going directly to the host that is running the vdr appliance but if by rebooting the vcenter it causes a complete crash of vdr and any running task then it kinda makes it very difficult to apply updates or patches to the vcenter especially when I have vdr backups running like 20 hours a day.
Update: The vdr appliance stopped doing anymore backup after this and all of the snapshots from the 8 runnings backups are all just sitting there and attached to the vdr appliance. I had to do a shutdown and reboot of the vdr to give it a kick in the ass to clean up all those snapshots and start the backup process all over again. In other words make sure your vdr is shutdown before you reboot your vcenter to save yourself problems.
