So I am new to VDP and have a few questions related to using NFS. The environment that we are working with was an old VDR environment that was using NFS and a NAS only storage array. While reading through the documentation I noticed that VMware recommends pretty strongly to use VMFS5 or high, but I wasn't sure what everyone is using and how concrete that recommendation was. Is anyone out there using NFS in the VDP solution?
Also I was a little confused by the one of the FAQs I saw regarding this and was hoping for some clarification. I read the question below saying that NFS cannot be mounted "within", but I was under the assumption that VDP doesn't mount destination within the appliance anymore like VDR did? I thought VDP simply deployed as an .ova and that becomes your backup destination?
Q: Is it possible to mount a CIFS of NFS share directly from the appliance and use these as backup data destinations?
Mounting a CIFS or NFS share directly from or “within” the appliance is not supported. The VDP appliance (.vmdk files) can be deployed to a NFS share mounted by a vSphere host. Windows based NFS shares are not supported.
Thanks in advance. -DB