HP XP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.6.1-00 Configuration Guide

the database services offline. However, for a restore operation in which the cluster resources are

currently online, you only need to take the databases offline that are involved in the restore oper-

ation.

• You can put together a cluster configuration using only database servers. You cannot allocate one

cluster server to a database server and the other cluster server to a backup server.

• Depending on the storage system type and features of the operating system, you might not be

able to perform a restore operation while the cluster is online.

Virtual environments supported by Application Agent

This section describes the following virtual environments supported by Application Agent:

• VMware ESX/ESXi Server, page 78

• Windows Server Hyper-V, page 79

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.

• When applying the VSS correction module that includes Hotfix 940349, please apply the module

on all servers using VSS.

• 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 41 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

Physical

Raw device mapping

NoVirtual

No Virtual disk

Yes

Physical

Raw device mapping

iSCSI

NoVirtual

No Virtual disk

Yes Directly connected to a guest OS

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