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Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescence

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Hello,

are there any plans for the next updates in Veeam to use VMWare Tools quiesced VM'S with backup from storage snapshots?
I am pretty sure ive read it in an other forum, that it will be supportet in vsphere 6.5?

currently we are running vsphere 5.5 but we want to upgrade next year.

Thank you.

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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescenc

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Hi Yannick,

Can you elaborate on your request? Do you need this for application consistency? When using storage snapshots with Veeam, you still trigger a regular VM snapshot, see this link for more info > VM Data Processing

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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescenc

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Hello,

yes its needed for application consinstency. Crash consistency is not enough for our enviorment.

Maybe i am not up to date with my information..

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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescenc

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Hi Yannick, do you mean you cannot use application-aware processing and stick to VMware quiescence instead? What kind of connectivity do you have to your datastores? Unless it's NFS, you can use VMware quiescence with backup from storage snapshots even now.
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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescenc

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Hi,

we dont want to use application-aware processing because we need local administrator rights for it. We are working in a higher security level where we need to restrict as much as possible.

But yeah..we are using NFS...
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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescenc

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We have plans to support VMware Tools quiescence for backup from storage snapshots in case of NFS datastores, but currently this is not possible.
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thanks thats what i wanted to know.

maybe you can tell me when its planned for the future
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Cannot comment on the ETA of this functionality at the moment.
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Hello Foggy,

are there any updates for this case?
Havent seen anything in the last releases.

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Re: Backup from Storage Snapshots and VMWare Tools quiescence

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Hi Yannick, no updates regarding this functionality.
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