SAN-transport mode for VMWare
- 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.