If you are like me, then you have been using VMware's VDR (VMware Data Recovery), which is VMware's built in backup and recovery appliance for vSphere, and experiencing some intermittent pain.

Well VMware is hoping to alleviate some of those issues by releasing VDR 1.2.

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VMware announced today that VDR 1.2 is available for download. For those that don't know VMware Data Recovery is a robust, simple-to-deploy backup &amp; recovery solution that businesses should consider using when they virtualize their infrastructure to provide the first line of data protection for their virtual environment.

VDR allows for backup and recovery inside of the vSphere client - think baked in backup inside of vSphere. This product will continue to get better and better and the latest installment should be a great step in the right direction.

Some of the issues fixed in the latest release (version 1.2) are:
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	<li>High DRS Or vMotion Activity on Protected Virtual Machines Causes Unnecessarily High CPU Utilization</li>
	<li>If vCenter Server Becomes Unavailable Data Recovery Permanently Loses Connectivity</li>
	<li>Data Recovery Backups May Fail To Make Progress At The Start Of The Task</li>
	<li>The Backup Appliance Crashes When Backing Up Certain Disk Configurations</li>
	<li>Data Recovery Does Not Properly Track Individual Disks For Backup</li>
	<li>Data Recovery Fails To Check Disk Hot Add Compatibility And To Clean Up After Failures</li>
	<li>Data Recovery Does Not Support Longer CIFS Passwords</li>
	<li>The Backup Appliance Crashes If Disks Become Full</li>
	<li>Last Execution Shows Incorrect Time Stamp For Completed Jobs</li>
	<li>Data Recovery vSphere Client Plug-In Failed to Connect to vCenter Server</li>
	<li>Adding Virtual Disks Causes Problems With Snapshots And Subsequent Backups</li>
	<li>Backups Failed to Complete As Expected</li>
	<li>Restore Wizard Does Not Enforce Valid Datastore Selections</li>
	<li>File Level Restore (FLR) In Admin Mode Mishandles Some Password Characters</li>
	<li>FLR Fails To Mount Virtual Disks Due To Connection Delimiter</li>
	<li>Windows FLR Fails To Mount Multiple Disks With The Same Name</li>
</ul>
As you can see the good folks at VMware have been hard at work on fixing and enhancing VDR.

There is also short <a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vdr-1.2-final-1.mp4">video </a> that walks through some of the great new stuff in VDR 1.2.

For more information please check VMware's <a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/vdr/doc/vdr_120_releasenotes.html">Release Notes</a> on VDR 1.2