topic Re: Does SnapManager Exchange support VMware RDMs yet? in Data Protection

Does SnapManager Exchange support VMware RDMs yet?

boylerscs — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:57:52 GMT

I know the current version of SnapManager for SQL supports VMware RDMs for the database and transaction log LUNs (as opposed to using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator inside the Guest OS), but how about SnapManager for Exchange? If not, does anyone know when this will be supported?

Re: Does SnapManager Exchange support VMware RDMs yet?

marnold — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:45:33 GMT

Hi,

If SnapDrive in the guest can "see" those disks as being NetApp LUNs then SnapManager for Exchange will accept them. What we don't support is VMDKs presented as LUNs to the guest where they arrived at the host over NFS. Microsoft will not support for that for Exchange (SQL is a different case) so we can't use that configuration scenario.

Re: Does SnapManager Exchange support VMware RDMs yet?

boylerscs — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:33:14 GMT

Excellent to hear. So, since we are using SnapDrive 6.3P2, which shows the RDMs, we are good to go from a NetApp support standpoint to switch from using the MS iSCSI Initiator inside the VM to using RDMs via VMware ESX?

Thanks,

Bill