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What are two advantages of using vSphere Data Protection In a data center? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. Creates new virtual machines. C. Ensures minimum impact on network bandwidth. vSphere Data Protection (VDP) offers the advantage of creating new virtual machines from backups for recovery purposes and ensuring minimum impact on network bandwidth through efficient data deduplication.
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What are two advantages of using vSphere Data Protection In a data center? (Choose two.)
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- ACreates new virtual machines.
- BMigrates virtual machines.
- CEnsures minimum impact on network bandwidth.
- DProvides increased backup data capacity.
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A95% (36)
- B3% (1)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
vSphere Data Protection (VDP) offers the advantage of creating new virtual machines from backups for recovery purposes and ensuring minimum impact on network bandwidth through efficient data deduplication.
vSphere Data Protection provides robust recovery capabilities, allowing administrators to restore backups as new virtual machines, which is essential for disaster recovery, testing, or cloning environments.
Migrating virtual machines (e.g., via vMotion) is a core vSphere capability for live relocation and is not a primary function or advantage of vSphere Data Protection, which focuses on backup and recovery.
VDP utilizes inline deduplication and variable-length chunking technologies to significantly reduce the amount of data transferred over the network during backup operations, thereby minimizing network bandwidth consumption and increasing efficiency.
While VDP stores backup data, its advantage is efficient use of existing storage capacity through deduplication, not directly providing increased raw backup data capacity itself.
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