vSphere + Veeam + DSS v6 + SAN mode

[tle]

... we use Open-E, vSphere 4.0 and Veeam Backup since nealry one month in production, and it works like a charme. If you just mount the iSCSI LUNs in the system Veeam is running on, like for instance Windows XP with the use of te MS iSCSI Iniator, everything works just fine.

No changes on ESXi and no changes on Open-E. Just add the Veeam, and it works perfectly...

greetz

[techfreakz]

Thanks for your reply.

While I appreciate this is possible I am VERY concerned that the Windows XP box we have running Veeam might, in an extreme case, write to the VMFS ISCSI LUN in some way (for example writing a disk signature).

Hence my need, as suggested in the Veeam setup guide, to mount the LUN read only on our Veeam backup machine and read/write on our ESXi box.

What are your thoughts?

Best regards

TFZ

[tle]

We are running Veeeam from an XP machine, too. And because Xp doesn't have the automount option like described in the tutorial from Veeam, noting happens. Its in production since over a month now, so you can say "it is stable" :-)

[techfreakz]

OK, I shall give it a go!

I am in talks with the SAN vendor (Open-E) to get them to enable read-only mounting of LUNS for this purpose.

Thanks again,

TFZ