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 Hello Luca,

Thank you for posting your question. I will be happy to answer.

Current version Acronis vmProtect 7 performs the virtual machine backup through the VMware ESX snapshot technology. VMware does not support the snapshot of RDM disks, thus it is not possible to backup such virtual machines with Acronis vmProtect 7. Acronis vmProtect 8 will use the same technology for snapshot and backup creation, so it will also not support RDM disk format.

As a workaround, in order to perform a backup of a virtual machine with the RDM disks, you can install the Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 Agent into the virtual machine.

Should you have any additional questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

Hi Dmitry,

is it still true that you can not snapshop RDMs? I thought that vRDM's do support snapshotting.

Here is a link from VMWare:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cm…

If you are using a raw disk in virtual mode, you can realize the benefits of VMFS, such as advanced file locking for data protection and snapshots for streamlining development processes.
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Hi ece,

Yes RDMs in virtual compatibility mode are supported for snapshots and therefore can be backed up. Dmitry was referring to RDMs in physical compatibility mode only.

Thank you.
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Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager

Hi Vasily,

so VMP8 does not support backing up machines with physical RDMs?

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Hi ece,

These machines will be backed up, but RDM drives in physical compatibility mode will be skipped and therefore not included into the backup.

Thank you.
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Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager