HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.3.1-00 Configuration Guide

• Depending on the connection method used by the guest OS, the VMware ESX support status varies.

The support status for each connection method used by the guest OS is as follows:

Table 37 VMware ESX 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

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 P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software

Replication Manager CLI User Guide.

• If any of the conditions above is not satisfied, do not configure the server in a virtual environ-

ment.

Table 38 Required memory when running Application Agent on a VMware ESX virtual machine

MemoryInstalled program

128,000KBApplication Agent (for SQL)

128,000KBApplication Agent (for Exchange)

192,000KBApplication Agent (for SQL and Exchange)

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