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VMware VM backups with Virtual RDMs

  • 1 June 2023
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Hello!

 

I am running VMware VM backups via SAN transport mode. Several of the VMs have virtual RDMs.

 

I would like to exclude them from the VSA backup and run them via FS iDA inside the VM. 

 

How to achieve that?

 

Regards,

Pedro

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Best answer by Emils 1 June 2023, 03:03

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HI @PedroRocha 

You should be able to achieve this using filters to filter them out

 

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Thanks!

Disk filters is the way. I only wish there was a way to specify all virtual RDMs for all VMs in an easy way, without having to manually selecting each RDM (consider there is no name pattern, or SCSI name,)

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Technically, if you do nothing the VM should still be protected except for the RDM disks. On feature release 11.23+ the job completes normally but should print a warning in the events about it.

https://documentation.commvault.com/additionalsetting/details?name=%22IgnoreUnsupportedDisks%22&id=1318

 

If you want to filter out the entire VM, you could use a tag on them in vCenter and use a filter rule to exclude VMs with a specific tag

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Technically, if you do nothing the VM should still be protected except for the RDM disks. On feature release 11.23+ the job completes normally but should print a warning in the events about it.

https://documentation.commvault.com/additionalsetting/details?name=%22IgnoreUnsupportedDisks%22&id=1318

 

If you want to filter out the entire VM, you could use a tag on them in vCenter and use a filter rule to exclude VMs with a specific tag

Thanks!

 

From the docs I see that the virtual RDMs are protected by default, is that right?

"Virtual RDMs are protected by both streaming and IntelliSnap backup jobs."

https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/32585_frequently_asked_questions_for_virtual_server_agent_with_vmware.html

 

I wish I could filter them out just making a filter where I specify: "filter virtual RDMs"

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