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SnapCenter Backups - Spanning Resources

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I'm using VMDKs from multiple datastores/LUNs/Volumes to create a spanned Windows NTFS volume in a VMware VM.

 

So machine ServerA has two (2) disks connected - each hosted on separate data stores from different volumes

Disk1 [Datastore01\ServerA.vmdk] 100GB

Disk2 [Datastore02\ServerA.vmdk] 100GB

These disks are spanned to create a single "F:" drive of 200GB

 

Datastore01 is from the path /vol/Volume01/Lun01

Datastore02 is from the path /vol/Volume02/Lun01

 

I create a resource group in SnapCenter to backup the VM and include ALL spanned entities

 

The backup runs and I now have two snapshots.... one on each of the volumes

 

Volume01 - ServerA_test_12-13-2018_13.36.47.9187

Volume02 - ServerA_test_12-13-2018_13.36.47.9187

 

Judging by the identical snapshot names, it appears both volumes were quiesced for snapshots simultaneously to ensure a consistent snap - thus allowing for a supported method for restoring files from a spanned drive.

 

I haven't found specific wording in the SnapCenter or other documentation ...so I was hoping that one of my fellow community members could either confirm or refute this practice.

 

 

 


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