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App-Aware Backup & Replication with iSCSI drives

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Hello,

I just want to know if I can do Application Aware Backup, and also Replication of virtual machine (running Exchange 2013) if this machine has attached iSCSI volume from NAS (with Microsoft iSCSI connector), and on this volume is one of the databases from Exchange...

Would everything will be fine, or it will not do the backup for this iSCSI volume?

Thank you for quick info...

Marin

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Hi Marin,

The general rule is as follows: the backup performed via agent-less method (VMware VDDK) will include all disks which can be snapshotted by VMware. The external iSCSI volumes are unaffected by VMware snapshots and therefore they won't be included into the backup.

The possible solution in this case is to use agent-based backup approach instead (install agent inside the VM) and for this solution you'll need a different product: Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware (http://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/backup-advanced/vmware/ ) which includes application agents for MS Exchange and SQL.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager

I found some articles on the internet, that if I want to backup something on the NAS iSCSI volume, i have to create new HDD on ESXI for VM which will be located on this NAS iSCSI Datastore....

Then everything should work without a problem...??

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Hi Marin,

Yes, this is a viable solution - create a datastore on iSCSI LUN backed by NAS, then create a virtual disk on this datastore and use this disk as Exchange DB storage. In this case the agent-less backup will be capable of snapshotting the disk and capturing all required data.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager