Disaster Recovery with Thin Provisioned VM and Dedup

[Theomir]

Hi

I have a general question.

Scenario
Hypothetically I have a VM with a 15TB Thin provisioned disk. This disk is dedupped in Windows and uses effectively 5TB (dedup rate of approx. 60%).

Does Veeam recognise the dedup and thin provisioning and will restore the vmdk as thin provisioned? Or will it in the case of a disaster recovery, restore the disk as 15TB?

Thank you and best regards
Daniel

[Andreas Neufert]

Veeam works on disk block level of VMware. This means we see the VM disks like they are in vSphere.
Restore to a thin VM disk will use the same amount of space as the original VM.