Hi all,
Long story short....we have a remote site where we are upgading the firmware on the san. The san is old and bunky, and we have reason to believe it may not come back online....so we are preparing for the worst, with bare metal restores for all the vm's on that remote cluster.
Can you guys make suggestions on the easiest and quickest way to do this?
Now obviously we want to make backups and move them to a seperate location.
In terms of a seperate location, we have another SAN to move the data to, but space is limited...so we may need to use portable hdd in the interim.
Now we have looked at VDR but the snapshots that VDR creates need to be stored on datastores presented to that cluster, yes? Meaning this wont work because a) the disk usage will be huge, and b) because we don't want backups on the san that is going to have firmware ugpraded.
Another possible solution is just using Windows Backups to create full backups and storing them on the other SAN....but then i dont know how we will deal with VMs that have RDMs....
Any help appreciated, this is a tricky problem.