VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced

VMware vSphere Data Protection is available in two editions to help you protect your virtual machines depending on the size of your vSphere environment and with the level of granularity that your applications require.

vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection – available with all vSphere editions – with greater scalability and integration with business-critical applications. vSphere Data Protection Advanced provides fast agent-less image-level backups, as well as guest-level application-consistent protection of Microsoft® SQL Server™ and Microsoft® Exchange Server™.

vSphere Data Protection, a feature available with all vSphere editions, is ideally suited to protect small vSphere environments. Based on EMC Avamar technology, vSphere Data Protection provides the most efficient agent-less image-level backup and recovery for virtual machines.

	VDP	VDP Advanced
Licensing and Pricing
Per CPU (license only)	Included with vSphere ESS+ and above	$1095
Max protected VMs per CPU	Unlimited	Unlimited
Scalability
Max deduplicated storage per appliance	2TB	8TB
Max supported VMs per appliance	100	400
Max appliances per vCenter instance	10	10
Features
Agent-less backup
Variable-length deduplication
CBT for backup and restore
vSphere Web Client management
Self-service backup and recovery
Full VM and file-level recovery
Integrity check and rollback mechanism
Dynamic provisioning 2TB->8TB
MSFT Exchange Server agents
MSFT SQL Server agents
Migration from VDP

Note: List Pricing is for reference purposes only and is subject to change without notice. Pricing reflected in this document is suggested retail price in USD, for sales in the US. Regional prices may vary.

Midsize companies constrained in time and resources can’t afford to deal with complicated and expensive licensing models. However, these organizations should not have to settle for less capable solutions simply because they can’t invest on enterprise-level products. With enterprise-class deduplication and streamlined backup and recovery management, vSphere Data Protection Advanced is the most cost-effective backup solution.

Licensing unit – vSphere Data Protection Advanced is licensed per CPU.

• Protect as many VMs as needed on properly licensed vSphere hosts.*
• Deploy virtual appliances as needed at no additional charge (up to 10 per vCenter Server instance).
• No charge for the agents deployed throughout the environment – they are included with the solution.
• No need to perform complicated calculations to forecast backup storage capacity as in “per TB” licensing models.

Licensing vSphere Data Protection Advanced is as simple as matching the number of vSphere licenses in the environment.

*Actual limit in the number of VMs that can be protected is dictated by the technical scalability limitations of the solution.

vSphere Data Protection Advanced can also be purchased as part of the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions of the vSphere with Operations Management Accelerations Kits. Learn more about Acceleration Kits.

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced requires an adequate number of vSphere licenses (version 4.1 or higher and Essentials Plus or higher edition) and one instance of vCenter Server 5.1 or higher.

Learn more about VMware vCenter Server Standard licensing and VMware vSphere licensing.

Support and Subscription (SnS) contracts are available for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. One year of SnS is required. Learn more about support.

Along with our excellent self-service web-based support resources the following offerings are available: