HP XP7 Replication Manager Configuration Guide (TK981-96012, May 2014)

VMware ESX/ESXi Server
Application Agent supports a Windows environment that functions as a guest OS. If provided as a
guest OS of the virtual server products, VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.x and 5.x are also supported.
The following notes apply:
• Application Agent does not support VMware FT (Fault Tolerance).
• Do not run VMware live migration (VMware vMotion) and Application Agent at the same time. If
you run both concurrently, execution of Application Agent might fail. In such a case, please take
action according to message shown in the troubleshooting information.
• Application Agent can only perform backups of RAW LUNs to which RAW device mapping has
been applied by using the physical compatibility mode).
• For VMware ESXi 5.x, configurations are not supported in which a software FCoE adapter is used
to connect a primary or secondary volume to a database server, backup server, or pair management
server on a guest OS.
• Depending on the connection method used by the guest OS, the VMware ESX/ESXi support status
varies. The support status for each connection method used by the guest OS is as follows:
Table 42 VMware ESX/ESXi support status for each connection method used by the guest OS
Supported/Not Suppor-
ted
Compatible modeDisk type
Physical connec-
tion
Yes
1
Physical
Raw device mapping
FC
NoVirtual
No Virtual disk
Yes
1
Physical
Raw device mapping
iSCSI
NoVirtual
No Virtual disk
Yes Directly connected to a guest OS
Notes:
1. Database servers that are configured on a guest OS are supported. Backup servers that are
configured on a guest OS are supported if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
• The backup target is a file system or SQL Server.
• The secondary volume is a single generation.
• The backup is not made with VSS.
• In the Setup Application Agent dialog box when making settings for the backup server, on
the Replica Options tab, the Prohibit backup server from accessing unmounted replicas check
box is not selected (default setting). If you want to use the Application Agent CLI to disable
Prohibit backup server from accessing unmounted replicas, you must disable the dynamic
recognition of secondary volumes. For details about how to disable dynamic recognition of
the secondary volumes, see the HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Replication Manager
CLI User Guide.
• If any of the conditions above is not satisfied, do not configure the server in a virtual environ-
ment.
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