vSphere data protection - vSphere Tutorial

- [Rick] In this video I'll explain the basics of vSphere Data Protection and how it can be used to back up virtual machines. And that's what vSphere Data Protection is. It's a backup solution specifically designed for VMware vSphere environments that you can use to back up your virtual machines. You manage it completely using the vSphere Web Client. So it uses all of the same management tools that your vSphere environment already leverages. Now you do have to deploy a special virtual machine called vSphere Data Protection Appliance. And it's an incremental backup solution meaning once you create a full backup, only changed blocks are copied with each additional backup. So the goal there is to have the amount of work required for each backup job is minimized because only changed blocks need to be copied to the backup location. It provides virtual machine level protection and file level protection as well and it even includes…