Requirements and Limitations

Consider the following for CDP for VMware Cloud Director:

As CDP for VMware Cloud Director is based on the CDP mechanism for VMware vSphere VMs, requirements and limitations are also actual. For more information, see Requirements and Limitations for CDP.
Check the supported Cloud Director versions in Platform Support.
The version of target hosts must be 7.0 or later. Target hosts of version 6.5 and 6.7 are not supported.
The Any storage policy is not supported.
Most configurations require that you disable the VM discovery option in VMware Cloud Director global settings. For more information on where you can change the option, see VMware Docs.
Fast provisioned VMs cannot be protected with CDP.
The maximum number of VMs in a vApp that can be protected with CDP is 128.