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  • 1.  vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

    Posted Nov 16, 2012 07:19 AM

    Hi, we deploy vSphere Data Protection from OVF template, after completion we found 7 virtual disk listed in the vm properties with 1x100GB disk and 6x256GB disk, we just couldn't understand why the template gave us 7 disk, a google search didn't really give us any clue either.



  • 2.  RE: vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 16, 2012 07:51 AM

    You might have deployed 1TB appliance.

    The space on disk for a 1TB appliance is 1600GB (100+6*256) approximately.



  • 3.  RE: vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

    Posted Nov 16, 2012 07:57 AM

    Thank you snekkalapudi but I'm wondering why can't we just have 1TB disk instead



  • 4.  RE: vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk
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    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 16, 2012 08:02 AM

    Few might have space limitations.This is for flexibility.

    Disks other than the 1st one are data disks and you have flexibility to migrate them to different datastores after deployment.



  • 5.  RE: vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

    Posted Nov 16, 2012 08:06 AM

    Thank you snekkalapudi for answering the question, also can data disk reside on seperate data store? Like disk 2-4 at ds1 and 5-7 at ds2?



  • 6.  RE: vSphere Data Protection added 7 virtual disk

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 16, 2012 08:09 AM

    Yes. It Can. Absolutely no issues.