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Failed to start backup scheduler vdp6/14/2023 You can immediately kick off the backup process if you want by hitting the “Backup Now” button. Now you have configured a backup window and created backup job. Review your selected options and click “Finish”.Provide the a “Name” to the backup job, I’ve named it “daily-all-vms” and click “Next”.I have selected “60 Days” as the “Retention Period” but you should change this based on your requirements.I select “Daily” as I want to do a regular backup of all my virtual machines.I did de-select my vSphere Replication and the vSphere Data Protection appliance as I don’t need it to be backed up. I am going to backup all my virtual machines in my cluster so I select my “Cluster” object.Click on the “Backup” tab and then “New”.Now that we have defined our backup windows. I turned the backup duration down from 12 to “10 Hours” so that at 06:00 in the morning the backup windows ends.At the bottom you will see the “Backup Window”, make sure this aligns with your agreed backup hours.If you see the “Not Connected” status, click “Connect”.Click the “vSphere Data Protection” option in the left pane of your Web Client.I had to logout of the Web Client before I could see the new shiny VDP icon in my menu. Now that we have installed and configured it we can start using vSphere Data Protection (VDP). Reinitializing the appliance is going to take a couple of minutes (in my case almost 30), so be patient… I rebooted it by right clicking the appliance in the Web Client and clicking “Restart Guest OS”.Configuration is now completed and you can reboot the appliance so that it can initialize properly.If the test is successful click “Next” and then “Finish”.Next enter the vCenter Server and SSO Server details and test the connection.Create a new password, note the complexity requirements for it.Select the correct time-zone and click “Next”.Make sure that the hostname is resolvable through DNS, as other wise you will get a nice error as shown in the screenshot below.Next the network settings that you entered during the deployment of the virtual appliance will be presented, you can still make changes if you need.Enter the password, which is “changeme” (yes that is a hint!) and click “Next” on the welcome screen.Your browser will now inform you that you are connecting to a secure site by that the identification of it cannot be confirmed.Open a browser window and point it at “.When the VDP appliance has been deployed we can continue with configuring it. Now it is a matter of minutes before the appliance is deployed, you can track the progress in the upper right pane called “recent tasks”.Review the selected settings and click “Finish” (I ticked “Power on after deployment”).Provide the “Networking properties” and click “Next”. Select the “Network” it needs to be connected to and click “Next”.Select the “Datastore” it needs to be provisioned to and click “Next”.Enter the “Name” of the virtual machine and select the “Folder” this virtual machine will needs to be placed in and click “Next”.If you agree “Accept” the EULA and click “Next”.As a source I select the ova file I downloaded, now click “Next”.Right click the cluster object and click “All vCenter Actions” -> “Deploy OVF Template”.Go to your cluster under “vCenter” -> “Hosts and Clusters”.This is how you import it and configure it, but before you begin I recommend ensuring DNS records are created before deploying the appliance! I selected the 0.5TB version as I have a limited amount of virtual machines. Note there are three different versions available and depending on how large your environment is you will need to select a version. I downloaded the vSphere Replication virtual appliance. Installing vSphere Data Protection is just a couple of steps.
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