Best practices guide: Data Domain deduplication storage

Overview

VMware sites create more storage to manage and protect than their physical counterparts. By making it much simpler to multiply servers, it also becomes more likely that their storage footprints will multiply. This is significantly visible in backing them up.

Fortunately, with Data Domain systems as the target storage for VMware environment backup, those similar files would be deduplicated at high speed. All of the common data sequences are pooled to the smallest reasonable storage footprint, for on site protection and replication to a DR site.