Hello everyone, We've been doing some vStorage VMware backups thru the SAN for our test environment. We haven't started that on the production environment yet...
As you may know, in order to start doing SAN backups using the vStorage API, your backup host needs access to all the LUNs (VMFS volumes) that all your hypervisors use. I've been reading a couple of posts - on the symantec forums- regarding possible VMFS corruption while you present these to your Windows media-server (backup host). Something along the line like "Windows will try to automount them and eventually corrupt the VMFS volume" and that in order to avoid this you must first run diskpart and run: automount disable automount scrub Our backup-host is a Windows 2003 server and I indeed presented all the test LUNs to the Windows server and I had no problems with the LUNs (without running any of the above commands). Have any of you run into a problem like this? Is this an OS' specific issue (perhaps with Win2008?)? Thanks in advance, Jorge _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
