We want to use VDP as DR solution, to quickly bring up VMs in case the
VM somehow should get lost (e.g. accidentally deleted).
For some VMs that contain large data disks (several 2TB vdisks) we
wanted to only backup the system disks (data disks are backed up
conventionally to tape). These disks are configured as independent.
This is where we have trouble: while the selective backups succeed,
the VDP restore operations always try to set up every disk that is
configured in the VM, even if empty.
Consequently, with our sizy VMs this operation will quickly fail with
VDP: Restore Job Error
Insufficient disk space on datastore ...
VMWare KB 2110746 may be related.
Is there any workaround in VDP?
Kind regards, Tom