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4 Replies Last post: Oct 19, 2009 11:45 AM by jftwp  

VMs with snapshots "not supported"? posted: Oct 16, 2009 10:13 AM

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Oct 27, 2005

I've been sifting through my piles of product documentation, whitepapers, release notes and so forth to find exactly where I could have sworn I read something to this effect, but cannot. Is anyone aware of any limitation of VMs (on protected site) that have 1 or 2 snapshots within them, and having those snapshots within the recovery site as well?

We don't keep snapshots for more than a day or so as a good-little-admin best practice (delta files left alone for a while never a good thing). Just wondering about this----I SWEAR I read something, somewhere, about VMs (protected site) that have snapshots within, NOT being supported with SRM 1.x.

(We're about to configured the array managers, and before our first 'test' I wanted to tie up a few loose ends/questions and this is one of them --- my remaining questions are array vendor specific... thanks!)

Re: VMs with snapshots "not supported"?

1. Oct 16, 2009 10:45 AM in response to: jftwp
Click to view hkrishnan's profile Enthusiast VMware Employees 29 posts since
Feb 19, 2008
Correct. SRM doesnt support recovery of VMs with snapshots.

Re: VMs with snapshots "not supported"?

3. Oct 19, 2009 11:33 AM in response to: jftwp
Click to view hkrishnan's profile Enthusiast VMware Employees 29 posts since
Feb 19, 2008


Check out SRM admin guide (page 35 - limitations on recovery of snapshots and linked clone section)

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/srm-admin.pdf

Hope this helps.


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