Hi All
Anyone know of the best way for us to restore Vms from SAN snapshots.
We use a lot of cluster shared volumes, with multiple VMs on them. But we take SAN level (crash consistent i know) snapshots. When we have to restore a VM, we need to do this as fast as possible.
Currently we map the snapshot view to another cluster, then have to copy the vhdx files back to the oriignal cluster CSV volume. But it can be very slow copying over the network. Now we do this because, it is believed that we cannot map the snapshot view back to the original cluster. Else it gets confused over the volume and can corrupt the original CSV that is still being used by other VMs.
Can anyone confirm the above is true, and if so, what is the quickest way to work around this.
the recovered VMs need to be back on the original cluster unfortunately.
thanks, hope it all makes sense.