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adarobin
Novice I
3 years ago
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Is it possible to present a volume read-only to one host but read-write to other hosts?

 Use case: present VMFS volumes normally to a VMware cluster and read-only to a server running backup software for SAN transport backups.
flasharray
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    adarobin
    3 years ago
    We talked to IBM and they recommended not using SAN transport mode which seems insane to me. When we use NBD we end up being throttled by the firewall that the ESXi management interfaces are behind.
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Cody_Hosterman
Puritan
3 years ago
So this is possible, somewhat. We can make an entire volume read only, meaning every host treats the volume as read only. So maybe you can copy the VMFS and backup from that? But to tom.borcher's point i think that is a very common configuration.