Veeam Endpoint and shared VHDX

[Someonenew2014]

Can I use Veeam Endpoint to backup shared VHDX as workaround ?

[Dima P.]

Hello,

For now, I can say that it won’t work out of the box but there might be a workaround to backup every vhdx separately. Can you elaborate how your shared vhdx is configured?

[Someonenew2014]

Hi...
It is a shared vhdx disks (shared virtual disks). However, we are not using shared pass-through disks.

It is normal MSSQL cluster.

[Someonenew2014]

We configured using VMs itself (Hyper-V)

from VM setting we expand the drive that we share, and we do it on all VMs that we want to share.

[Dima P.]

Thanks. Can you clarify are using Veeam B&R to backup you Hyper-V environment – it does support the shared vhdx backup.

[Someonenew2014]

Hi,

Yes we are using Veeam B&R v8. Howver, shared vhdx is supported only in consistent state. We need workaround to backup shared vhdx in application-consistent state.

[Vitaliy S.]

VEB will not provide application-aware image processing for this configuration. Why not to use SureBackup job (for now) to verify consistency of your SQL Server after running a backup job in VBR?