Hi Experts,
I'm wondering if this issue is normal behavior for VDP5.5.
I backed up certain VM only boot disk, "Hard disk 1" which resides /dev/sda.
The VM I backed up contains other virtual hard disk such as /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc, which are located on different datastore.
1. VM structure.
| Device File on VM | Datastore / Virtual Hard disk | Backup Target |
|---|---|---|
| /dev/sda | vm_boot/vm1/vm1.vmdk | Yes |
| /dev/sdb | vm_data1/vm1/vm1.vmdk | No |
| /dev/sdc | vm_data2/vm1/vm1.vmdk | No |
When I restored this VM to different datastore, I found that all virtual disk that I did't back up are restored in a same targeted datastore.
(the restore target datastore is discribed below as "target_ds")
2. Restored VM
| Device File on VM | Datastore / Virtual Hard disk | Backup Target |
|---|---|---|
| /dev/sda | target_ds/vm1/vm1.vmdk | Yes |
| /dev/sdb(*) | target_ds/vm1/vm1_1.vmdk | No |
| /dev/sdc(*) | target_ds//vm1/vm1_2.vmdk | No |
*) No data has recovered. Just exists as a SCSI disk without any partitions, file systems.
So, what I'm wondering is that even I exclude those virtual disk such as /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc above, does VDP restored(or may be re-create) virtual disk?
I expected that if I exclude some virtual disk, VDP restores only the virtual disk I intend to backup.
Best,
MAC