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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VMware VM backups with Virtual RDMs
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Best answer by Emils
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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.
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
+10- Novice
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.
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."
I wish I could filter them out just making a filter where I specify: "filter virtual RDMs"
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