Hi Mark,<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/20 Neis, Mark &lt;<a href="mailto:Mark.Neis@gisa.de">Mark.Neis@gisa.de</a>&gt;:<br>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span></div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">So far we&#39;ve used SnapManager for Exchange to create the Snapshots we then back up to tape</font></span></div>

<div><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Arial"><span><font size="+0">via NDMP.&nbsp;</font></span><span>If I see this correctly, SnapManager/SnapDrive for Exchange won&#39;t work if the storage is</span></font></font></font></div>

<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">handed out to the underlying ESX instead of the Exchange server itself. On the other hand,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">SnapManager for VMware - which is to be released in August, as I could read - doesn&#39;t know</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">about the internals of its VMs and hence is not the tool of choice to back up our Exchange</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">StorageGroups.</font></span></div>
<div><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span></font></font>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span></span><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Does anyone out there have a similar scenario? Is there any way to use SnapManager for Exchange</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">in the environment I described above? What ways do you back up your Exchange installations?</font></span></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>For every customer a different scenario offcourse, but you can install MS iSCSI Initiator in a VM, stack SnapDrive on top of that, and in this way run SnapManager for Exchange.</div>
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<div>Basically, you connect a dedicated LUN from within the VM directly to a NetApp, and not use any VMWare functionality (except for OS disks) to run Exchange.</div>
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<div>This way you have your snapshotted LUNs and you can back them up any way you like.</div></div>
<div><br>There are many variation to this theme, and I heard rumours that NetApp is working on expanding possibilities of SnapManager for VI and SnapDrive, but I&#39;m sure your SE will have more information on that ;)<br clear="all">
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<div>HTH &amp; HAND,</div>
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