VMWare VDR Limitations

[Muffin`]

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience of VDR 2.0.1 on ESXi 5.1 when backing up SQL 2k8R2/Exchange 2010 (in a DAG) on 2K8R2 boxes?

It's supposedly 'not supported' but there's cases of people claiming it works but info is still thin on the ground. I'm interested if I'll have to use the OS VSS and not the VMTools VSS also then how the VSS handles SQL/Exc logs. I don't think VDR is up to the job but I need to be sure before I suggest something like Veeam.

VCP is out as it doesn't allows us to copy off the backups to a NAS.

Thanks

 

[Muffin`]

Yeah I just get sent round in circles with kb articles, check your email

 

[Muffin`]

I found the incompatibility, it can't release snapshots gracefully. so it just continues to write to the snapshot file, until it corrupts... and then it all goes pete tongue.

Got Veeam up and running, looks like just the ticket.