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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
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  4. Some limitations of CDP
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Some limitations of CDP

Here are some limitations of CDP:

  • NetBackup features like Intelligent policy and Backup now, and Roll back instantly from web UI are not supported.

  • CDP for VMware and Veritas Resiliency Platform do not work together for the same VM. However, both products can protect different VMs on the same vCenter cluster.

  • CDP does not support any standalone ESX, which is not managed by any VC. An ESXi which is not part of any ESXi cluster but is managed by VC, is also not supported.

  • You must turn on the VMs before subscribing them to a CDP-based protection plan, and also for the first full backup.

  • After subscribing a VM for CDP backup policy, if any disk from the VM is removed or a new disk is added, the subsequent backups fail. In such cases, unsubscribe the VM from CDP protection, and subscribe it again.

  • Due to VMware limitation, if you try to protect a VM using the NetBackup agent for VMware and CDP, both at the same time, the backup operation fails with an error or the operation might crash with symbols from VDDK.

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