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martin_winter
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10 months ago
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Hi everyone, our big show stopper for moving to vvol

Hi everyone, our big show stopper for moving to vvol always has been the lack of SAN based backup support in VDDK/VADP. As to my surprise I noted today, that with VDDK 8.0.3 it is even supported with NVMe-oF https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/rn/vddk-803-release-notes.html

So, as the release notes on vmware‘s side are a little bit vague, does anyone know when vvol backup/restore support over SAN transport was introduced? VDDK 8.0 says it’s not supported. That’s the last clear statement I found before 8.3 supporting all of it.

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  • martin_winter's avatar
    martin_winter
    9 months ago
    Non nvme would also be great, just any way using vvols with san backup fits our use case

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    alex_carver
    Puritan
    9 months ago
    They said they do want to look more at the VDDK and SAN transport support for vVols in general, it’s just been a lower priority behind Stretched vVols, NVMe vVols and now VCF 9.0 with vVols. I do think that data protection and VDDK san transport support is something that we have been wanting to drive with them, but it’s one of those things that we need more RFEs directly with both VMware, Pure and backup vendors to push it. I just don’t know when that will happen right now.
  • martin_winter's avatar
    martin_winter
    Novice I
    9 months ago
    Non nvme would also be great, just any way using vvols with san backup fits our use case