I've got the following VMware Windows Server 2008 R2 exchange 2010 environment: CAS1, CAS2, MailBox1, Mailbox2. There is a dag group between MailBox1 and Mailbox2 (failover cluster). The databases and Exchange logs are located on RDMs (on Mailbox1/Mailbox2). CAS1 and CAS2 have no rdms.
Normal policy is to treat VMs with RDMs as a physical server, using MS-Windows policy type for backups. Will the policy type MS-EXCHANGE-SERVER successfully backup my dag databases stored on RDMs? I've got the netbackup client installed on CAS1, CAS2, MailBox1, Mailbox2. I have a service account setup to run the client (domain user and organization management) and services for network file system on all four vm's.
So my questions are:
Will the policy type MS-EXCHANGE-SERVER backup a database from a RDM?
Do I have one MS-EXCHANGE-SERVER policy with CAS1, CAS2, MailBox1, Mailbox2 (assuming ms-exchange-server can handle RDM) or vmware policy for CAS1 and CAS2 and have mailbox1 and mailbox2 on a seperate policy?
Is there a better/more efficient setup?