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lun0's avatar
lun0
Level 3
13 years ago

SAN-transport mode for VMWare

Hi I have a 2010r3 installation and I'm currently trying to add VMWare (I have bought AVVI and ADBO licenses) backups to it. Backups using AVVI are fine but they are currently using VMWare snapshot...
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  • teiva-boy's avatar
    teiva-boy
    13 years ago

    Drop into diskpart.exe from a command prompt

    run "automount disable" and "automount scrub" (without quotes)

    Now grant access to the SAN volumes to the Windows Host from within the EQL array GUI

    Connect to those LUNS in the iSCSI tools of the Windows hosts

    In the disk manager you'll see some new disks.  Don't do anything to them!  No signatures, no drive letters, etc.

     

    The VMware API files that are installed as part of BackupExec will be able to communicate to vCenter and know which files to snap and capture as the various driver files and DLL's give Windows the ability to do a read-only mount of VMFS.

    ADBO is not needed here, only AVVI.  ADBO can be used only with Exchange, SQL, and File backups; typically in physical form.  Though a virtual machine with RDM's and ADBO would work..  If you virtualized Exchange, you are better off with AVVI and GRT.  

lun0's avatar
lun0
Level 3
13 years ago

Thanks, everything is working well now, getting speeds of about 4500-5000MB/min, just some minor issues when it comes to verifying the backup, it always completes with exception and claims that it cannot connect to the VM to collect metadata (for GRT), I don't have the exact error message here but will report back with it (unless someone knows what I'm talking about and knows how to solve it ;)

RAWS is installed on the VM (currently only one, for testing).

/lun0