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VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

You can deploy Commvault Cloud to protect workloads that run on virtual machines in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. The vSphere cluster and hosts reside on high-performance Dell EMC servers in the datacenter.

Features

  • Streaming backups and restores for virtual machines using VMware vSphere Storage API (formerly known as vStorage APIs for Data Protection or VADP)

  • Changed block tracking (CBT)

  • Full, incremental, and synthetic full backups

  • Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attached to a VM), and guest files and folders

  • Agentless file recovery to virtual machines

Architecture

The following diagram shows the components for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC:

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (1)

Requirements

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC operates in the same way as an on-premises deployment of VMware, except that Dell EMC does not provide access to ESXi hosts.

  • vSAN is used as a shared datastore.

  • Backups use VDDK 6.7.3, which is loaded by default, or a more recent version of VDDK.

  • SDDC versions: 1.10

Limitations

  • Because there is no access to hosts, the following Commvault Cloud features are not supported for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC:

    • Live VM recovery using vMotion

    • Live mount

  • Only HotAdd transport mode is supported.

    SAN and NBD transport modes do not work with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.

For more information, see VMware Cloud on Dell EMC.

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