Thursday, February 4, 2010

Attach RDM to vsphere with Recoverpoint

If you need to attach a recoverpoint volume to a guest through RDM you MUST select physical access in recoverpoint if you don't want to shut down the guest. If you select virtual access you must power down the guest and then attach the disk.

1. enable physical access in recoverpoint
2. ensure that your esx hosts can see this lun by verifying in navisphere storage groups
3. rescan datastore
4. edit properties of the guest and add a physical disk, if you did everything correctly attach RDM should be available.
5. Select a drive letter on the windows server for this disk.