The initial issues I've had with VDP forced me to start fresh and make a completely new guest. I deployed an ova for the .5TB VM. I installed it to an NFS datastore.
It all installed fine and is working. I can connect. I have not done a thing. I didn't run an integrity check, or set up backup or anything. My graphs for bandwidth usage to the NFS datastore shows there is constant traffic going there even though it is in its blackout period.
I had a similar experience the first time I installed it. It would use 100Mb of transfer on the switch to the datastore for doing NOTHING. Now I used a small older datastore its only using about 40Mbit but still using traffic.
Is this intentional? I didn't see anything about this in the documentation.
The tcpdump shows that VDP is contacting the datastore. The datastore when I tcpdump there it shows coming from the HOST ip (not the vdp ip) which is curious.
Anyone explain to me why this would be needing to touch the datastore when nothing is needed to be done?