Will Networker VADP not longer be supported since vSphere 6

But will there be support for Networker VADP with vSphere 6 in the next time?

Hi Thomas,

          VADP is not supported with vSphere 6.0. You can continue to backup using VADP with NetWorker 9.0 as well, provided you don't upgrade the ESX and vCenter.

So are they planing on adding the VADP capability with VCenter 6.0 ??

VADP is being deprecated with vSphere 6.  This isn't a decision from the NetWorker side to call VADP legacy.  The APIs provided by VMware for VADP backups still exist with vSphere 6, but they're being badged as Legacy in favour of VMware's own vSphere Data Protection (VDP) appliance.  That's what NetWorker integrates with under vSphere 6.  That's unlikely to change moving forward and any additional support for this won't be initiated from the NetWorker side.

Plain and simple it's better than the original VADP.  If you're planning a move to vSphere 6, plan the change to the backup methodology as part of the upgrade.

the answer of the EMC Customer Service:

Networker 8.2.3 which is expected to be released end of march/16 will support this version of vCenter server and also vCenter v6.0.

vSphere 6.0 is supported with NetWorker 8.2 SP3

We have downloaded and tested 8.2.3 and it appears to no t work

You used new OVA files too?

There is no OVA for VADP backup

We are having larger communications issues on our campus. The VADP process does not use OVA’s, it uses Windows Proxies. There was an alert that 8.2.3 would support VADP in vSphere 6. That does not appear to be the case.

Scott

Can you tell us what exactly were the errors seen when it is mentioned not to work ?

We have been running VADP for about two years on a vSphere 4 to vSphere 5.1.

We upgraded to vSphere 6.0 two weeks ago, and failed to see the note that VADP

was discontinued after vSphere 5.5. Then I read the notice that it would be

returned in to Networker 8.2.3. We have upgraded Networker, but are still

having problems. We have also upgraded the Windows Proxy in the target

cluster to 8.2.3 also.

This is the error we are getting from the test client. I was going to turn on

extended logging for nsrvadp_save, but I cannot remember. Also, when we

start the test, we never see an attempt to connect to the vcneter appliance,

thus no attempt to generate the snapshot.

Technically the proxy upgrade to 8.2.3 is what is required.

Shall wait for the logs..

The problem was resolved by creating a NSR resource for Networker with nsradmin. Once that was done, we started backups without flaw.

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A. Scott McDaneld

Manager, Enterprise Platforms

KU Information Technology

smcdaneld@ku.edu

785 864 0117