+14Happy Tuesday! 
I’ll try and post a little pop quiz question each day, hope to hear from many of you. Did you know the answer? Did you look it up in the documentation? Did you try it in a lab? Please share some details along with your answer.
Your production virtual machine leverages one or more virtual RDM disks. The operations team is documenting which restore procedures are available. Which restore options can be used to keep the vRDM intact as opposed to the restore converting to a VMDK?
Best answer by coolsport00
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BTW...I like this question a little better. Still somewhat a ‘nit-picky’ question, but at least findable 😁
+17Restore using the Full VM Restore Wizard, but tick the "Quick rollback" check box. This is the only procedure which supports the vRDM format.
This time I did not have to lookup in the documentation, we have discussed this lately
+20I believe you can just create a NAS Backup of the data on the drive, then just restore the data from the NAS Backup, whether it’s vRDM or VMDK. I actually have a job for just that purpose. I also have the VM in a regular b/u job as well.
+20Per
BTW...I like this question a little better. Still somewhat a ‘nit-picky’ question, but at least findable 😁
+21Based on what I know and from the documentation you need to use Quick Rollback to preserve the vRDM format otherwise other restore options will convert the vRDM to VMDK. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/incremental_restore.html?ver=110
+17Yes
I think in the case that the data only has to be restored your solution is correct, too. But then you could do a file-level-restore, too.
But I am not completely sure, if these methods will affect the vRDM format or not….
+20As I thought. But honestly..think Rasmus was looking for the answer you gave :)
+14I believe you can just create a NAS Backup of the data on the drive, then just restore the data from the NAS Backup, whether it’s vRDM or VMDK. I actually have a job for just that purpose. I also have the VM in a regular b/u job as well.
I guess it depends on exactly what is running on these machines, but just for some individual file backup/restore this could definitely work out. For apps, probably could be a lot of locked files during backups?
+20Yeah..I don’t have apps; the VM is just a file share VM.
Thanks for the quiz and the answers, well learning now .. :)
+13Agree with
+12Just mentioning that
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