Discussions on the VMTN board on vSphere and it’s features have erupted since it was announced yesterday. Some of the discussions have raised some interesting points.
This thread – HERE – has raised an good point about a limitation in the VMWare Data Recovery (VDR) feature. The initial release of Data Recovery only allows one backup per day to be scheduled. Now this is more a lack of functionality in the current version rather than a technical limitation, however it does restrict the ability to conduct multiple daily backups to a “MANUAL” task.
The VMTN poster “Smoggy” pointed out that “if you want to backup a VM more than once a day then you could simply add that VM to multiple backup jobs inside the scheduler”, this is a bit of a bodge but could be a workaround until VMWare add the functionality.
In terms of usability for companies running multiple servers this is a critical oversight by VMWare. It seems clear that VDR has been aimed as an entry level backup solution, leaving the market open for established Enterprise backup solutions like esXpress.
