VMware vSphere • Snapshot Primary and Secondary Array

Hi,

A customer wants to snapshot a datastore on a hourly basis and use that as quickrecovers.
Regualar backups and copys to repositories will run every 24 hour.

This site is configured with VMware Metro Storage cluster with 2 Array's with synchronise replication.

When configuring a snapshot job, default the datastore LUN on the primairy array get's a snapshot.
To get a snapshot on the secondairy array one needs to configure a secondary destination in the job.
But the a popup that says:
"Instructs the job to create array snapshots on the HPE Alletra/Primera Peer Persistence target storage instead of the source one."

However, the custom would like to have a synchronized snapshot on both array's

We could define 2 jobs, one with and one without secondary destination, say 10 minutes apart, but then the snapshots are not each others exact mirror.

Is there a way to tell Veeam Backup to snapshot both array's at the same time ?
HPE Alletra MP now runs default in Active PP, thus a datastore is writeable on both primairy and secondairy.
So a pre-snapshot stun on LUN will be performed on both array's, no matter on which array the snapshot is made.

Running Veeam 12.2 with VMware 8

Regards,
Martijn

Statistics: Posted by mkaaden — Oct 07, 2024 10:44 am

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