Hello,

I have several doubts about backing up VMs with RDMs through the VADP:

     1. Do you know of any VADP limitations regarding RDMs in virtual mode?

     2. Assume I have already backed up a VM. The VM was having OS disk on a regular VMFS volume and several big (~2TB) RDMs in virtual mode. How do I restore such a VM? Do I need multiple or a single VMFS volume (a huge one) as a target for this VM to do a restore or is there any way to restore to RDM's (all in virtual mode) directly? Please assume I do not want to overwite my original VM.

Regarding VADP and RDMs in physical mode I found out that:

     - VADP cannot be used to protect pass-through disks (RDM: raw device mapped disks in physical compatibility mode)

also:

     - VADP cannot be used to protect network mounts (CIFS or NFS) within guest (which is rather obvious)

Regards,

S.