Backups of Vitrual Machines with IDE will fail if the HotAdd transport mode is selected. The failing backup will log similar to the following:
Skipping VDDK HotAdd. VMware does not support using HotAdd on IDE disks.
VMware does not support IDE disks with the HotADD VDDK transport method. This is described in the following document, current for vSphere 5.0.
"This strategy works only with virtual machines with SCSI disks is not supported for backing up virtual machines with IDE disks"
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