Hey now! With HCI coming at everyone now over the past few years, we are finally ready to adopt and have selected a solution. However, along with this transition to HCI comes a transition from VMFS to NFS. I know that CBT is supported for VMs running on NFS, and this is confirmed in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1020128.
HOWEVER - I see a tibbit in the VMware KB above that states the following:
"For CBT to identify disk sectors in use with the special "*" change ID, these items are required:
I do not know what the impact of this is and I would like someone with a deeper understanding of this statement to provide some clarity.
CBT is supported on NFS, but not the ability to identify disk sectors in use with a special character (*) change ID?
What am I losing here?
Thanks in advance
You can read more about that here. In short, it's probably not something you need to worry about unless you've monkied with changeId directly.
You can read more about that here. In short, it's probably not something you need to worry about unless you've monkied with changeId directly.
Good read.. I can't recall ever getting this much of a deep dive into CBT and backup operations..