FibreChanel / iscsi RAW Lun

[Profex]

Hello Veeam Experts,

we have a Fileserver in VMware we Backup Full 900Gig c: \ d: \ e: \ f: also we have a RAW LUN G: Mapped with 1 TB but i cant see the Volume in VMware Veeam Backup settings ?

Thts very bad...how can i backup the MAPPED RAW Luns ?

thx for Infos & Helps!

[veremin]

Disks connected to VM via ISCSI can't be shapshoted, therefore, they are not supported by VB&R. Such disks are automatically skipped from processing. Thanks.

[dellock6]

Andre,
Vladimir already explained you why, this is a limit of VMware.
Any reason you are keeping it as a RDM disk, and not converting it to proper VMDK? In this way you would be able to protect it too.

Luca.

[Profex]

Hello Luca,

thx for Answer...well so we must convert to vmdk...damn....

[veremin]

Well so we must convert to vmdk...damn....

Right, if you want to backup this virtual disk, you should convert it to vmdk first. Anyway, is there any specific reason why you don't want to do so? Thanks.

[dellock6]

Andre,
I know sometimes RDM are a remnant of the past, when best practices in old ESXi versions suggested to use them. The conversion process is not that hard, as long as you can schedule a short stop of the VM. Maybe this can help you, I wrote about it some time ago:
http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/howt ... vmdk-disk/

Luca.