https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087294#M41640 We have a vdisk on an EVA8100 that was created using CA from an EVA5000 on 12-4-07. The vdisk is presented as a Raw Data Mapping to a VMware Virtual Machine since it is 600GB. I've checked the RDM LUN number over and over to make sure the VM is writing to the correct vdisk. <BR /><BR />The problem I'm having is that when we snapclone, snapshot or mirrorclone the vdisk and present it to a backup server (non-VM), there is no data on the vdisk newer than 12-11-07. I can create new folders and files on the vdisk from the VM, but they do not appear on the snaps taken just after the files are added.<BR /><BR />We have shut down the VM and presented the vdisk to a physical server and again, it doesn't show any data past 12-11-07, but when we power up the VM again, the data is current.<BR /><BR />All our testing seems to indicate that the VM is writing to a different vdisk, however we don't have any other 600GB vdisks presented to the ESX servers and the source vdisk on the EVA 5000 is not presented to any hosts.<BR /><BR />We are doing lan-based backups for now to get all of the data, so I wanted to run this by everyone for ideas before we create a new vdisk and restore from tape.<BR /><BR />Thanks. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:37:22 GMT Darren Parker 2008-01-10T02:37:22Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087294#M41640 We have a vdisk on an EVA8100 that was created using CA from an EVA5000 on 12-4-07. The vdisk is presented as a Raw Data Mapping to a VMware Virtual Machine since it is 600GB. I've checked the RDM LUN number over and over to make sure the VM is writing to the correct vdisk. <BR /><BR />The problem I'm having is that when we snapclone, snapshot or mirrorclone the vdisk and present it to a backup server (non-VM), there is no data on the vdisk newer than 12-11-07. I can create new folders and files on the vdisk from the VM, but they do not appear on the snaps taken just after the files are added.<BR /><BR />We have shut down the VM and presented the vdisk to a physical server and again, it doesn't show any data past 12-11-07, but when we power up the VM again, the data is current.<BR /><BR />All our testing seems to indicate that the VM is writing to a different vdisk, however we don't have any other 600GB vdisks presented to the ESX servers and the source vdisk on the EVA 5000 is not presented to any hosts.<BR /><BR />We are doing lan-based backups for now to get all of the data, so I wanted to run this by everyone for ideas before we create a new vdisk and restore from tape.<BR /><BR />Thanks. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:37:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087294#M41640 Darren Parker 2008-01-10T02:37:22Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087295#M41641 That sounds as if the VM is running with a VMware snapshot. Do you see any *delta* files near the RDM pointer? Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:02:34 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087295#M41641 Uwe Zessin 2008-01-10T06:02:34Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087296#M41642 You are absolutely correct! I did some checking and found that someone created a VM snap on 12-11-07 before installing VMtools. Thanks for the help! Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:09:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva-or-vmware-issue/m-p/5087296#M41642 Darren Parker 2008-01-11T04:09:51Z