Let me explain the customer environment first.
Customer has 3 Dell Poweredge servers (will name them pe1, pe2, pe3) and 1 Dell Powervault server. Customer uses pe1 and pe2 and has deployed 2 windows machines on them with hyperv on them respectively, pe1 has hyperv1 and pe2 has hyperv2. Customer has taken the storage of these hypervs from the Del Powervault server so that they have a large size. Customer has deployed a windows server on pe3 where veeam has been installed and the backup repository is on that pe3. Now, we added the 2 hyperv on veeam by adding them as standalone hyperv, hyperv 1 has 6 windows VMs under it and hyperv2 has 5 windows VMs under it.
One of the windows VMs is showing a used capacity of 50 GB. Now this windows machine is a file server, has 2 partitions, the C partition where the 50 GB is used , and another Partition, the D partition that has almost 3 TB of files on them.
On Veeam i only see the 50 GB used.
If i run a backup schedule in order to backup the VM, this means I am only backups up the OS C Partition, so in case of failure I can recovery the C, however all the files will not be backup up and cant be restored? Or am i missing something? In the backup job, if I enable the guest indexing and the application aware processing, will the other hard drive be backup up? Also, why I am i only seeing the C drive not both drives or not the full capacity of the VM?
Another Query,
Now, i was testing the environment, I tried to run a backup job for the file server and it failed with error “Processing VMs with pass-through disks is not supported”, is this because the VMs are taking its storage from Powervault , so it is all given as LUNs to it, preventing it from running the backup on the veeam repository?
As per the documentation :”
- Pass-through virtual disks and guest disks connected through in-guest FC or iSCSI initiators are not supported for VM backup. VMs with pass-through disks cannot be snapshotted, which prevents snapshot-based backup. In-guest connected disks are skipped from processing automatically. If backup of these VMs/disks is required, use Veeam Agent backup.
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What I am suspecting is correct?
