11-20-2012 08:29 AM
Looking to upgrade to BackupExec 2012 from 2010 R3 and the question that still lingers is whether or not we can backup pass-through disks in Hyper-V in 2012. What options are there, presuming one owns the Hyper-V agent, to do this? We use multiple CSVs with multiple VHDs per CSV for the operating system drives. Many VMs also have a passthru assigned as a direct (reserved drive in Windows) LUN.
Thanks,
Dana
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11-20-2012 05:47 PM
To avoid the error mentioned in the previous reply, you need to backup the VM's with pass-thourgh disks as if they are physical machines. First you have to install the remote agent in them and then back them up as if they are physical machines.
11-20-2012 12:24 PM
Hello Dana, Please refer to this solved forum thread ..hopefully it answers your questions regarding upgrading from 2010 R3 to 2012.
11-20-2012 05:03 PM
Hi
Hyper-V backups of Virtual Machines with pass through disks will show the error message "One or more virtual machines have been excluded from the backup as the the virtual machine uses one or more physical disks."
Please check link below
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH87330
Hope that helps
Thanks
11-20-2012 05:47 PM
To avoid the error mentioned in the previous reply, you need to backup the VM's with pass-thourgh disks as if they are physical machines. First you have to install the remote agent in them and then back them up as if they are physical machines.
12-24-2012 08:26 AM
please refer to :
http://www.symantec.com/tv/products/details.jsp?vid=1708313362001
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC5216
if this answer to ur questions please mark it as solution
12-25-2012 06:36 AM
The Backup Exec 2012 will backup only the VMDK disks in case of using the agent for VMware.
You can backup the pass-through Disk if you would backup the VMS using RAWS (Remote agent for Windows) Then backup exec will list all connected disk as in in case of physical Server backup.
12-25-2012 05:08 PM
How is this going to help the user?
12-25-2012 05:09 PM
Why are you repeating what has been said earlier?
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-handle-backups-pass-through-disks-hyper-v-backupexec-2012#comment-7986141
12-31-2012 06:41 AM