Hello,
I would like to backup the VM that are protected by VDR (but also by VDP soon) on tape. My goal is to offsite these VM.
Since VDR doesn't support backup on tape, I was thinking to process that way:
- I make a new datastore on my vCenter
- I restore some VM from a VDR appliance on this datastore
- I find a way how to attach the LUN in RDM to a VM with a tape backup software (the LUN where is the datastore)
- I can offsite the VM
Since a datastore is attached to an esx and can't be presented to a VM, is there a simple way to unattached the LUN, where is the datastore, from my ESX? (without adding claimrules to an esx)?
By the way, is it possible to restore a VM backuped by VDR to an other destination than a datastore? A RDM for example? (it would be the best way).
Thank you in advance,