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September 2nd, 2015 00:00
How to backup pass-through disks on Hyper-V VM?
We have a Windows 2012 R2 cluster with VM's using multiple very large 10TB pass-through disks containing SQL data. We were hoping to use VEEAM for backing up the environment but they don't support the backup of virtual SCSI attached pass-through's. Does anyone know of a work around or have a recommendation on which SW to use to accomplish this?
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umichklewis
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September 2nd, 2015 06:00
SCSI passthrough devices limit the Hypervisor's ability to take image-level backups of the LUN. Your best option would be to use a host-level backup application, since you have SQL data on those disks. Products like EMC Avamar support backups of virtual SCSI attached pass-through devices at the guest level, but it's not likely you'll find any backup applications that will do an image-level backup at the host level.
Let us know if that helps!
Karl
jithin
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September 2nd, 2015 07:00
I could see a similar thread in the community:
Re: Re: HyperV CSV backup failing on server 2012
Hope it helps!
Jithin