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martin_winter
Novice I
7 months ago
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Hi everyone, our big show stopper for moving to vvol

Hi everyone, our big show stopper for moving to vvol always has been the lack of SAN based backup support in VDDK/VADP. As to my surprise I noted today, that with VDDK 8.0.3 it is even supported with...
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    martin_winter
    6 months ago
    Non nvme would also be great, just any way using vvols with san backup fits our use case
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alex_carver
Novice I
7 months ago
I got my weeks mixed up, the meeting was this last tuesday, but it was on next tuesday. Sorry about that. I also found out that my backup appliance/setup was borked, so I've needed to get that reconfigured to do a test with a backup appliance, just to confirm that at least nvme-of vmfs datastores works with san transport. I did send an email over to their storage pm and one of their main engineers, but I both have been on PTO. Hopefully will have an update on next Tuesday. Thanks for the follow up.