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Protection: In the case when a dynamic volume spans multiple disks, you must protect those disks together to maintain the integrity of the volume. |
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Virtual export: You can export complex dynamic volumes such as striped, mirrored, spanned, or RAID volumes from an ESXi or Hyper-V host using agentless protection. However, the volumes are exported at the disk level, with no volume parsing. For example, if exporting a dynamic volume spanned across two disks, the export will include two distinct disk volumes. |
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Restoring data: When restoring a dynamic volume that spans multiple disks, you must restore the dynamic disks with the original system volumes to preserve the disk types. If you restore only one disk, you will break the disk configuration. |
Repository storage: Additionally, Rapid Recovery supports the creation of repositories on complex dynamic volumes (striped, mirrored, spanned, or RAID). The file system of the machine hosting the repository must be NTFS or ReFS.
Rapid Recovery release 6.1 and later includes the Rapid Snap for Virtual feature. With the Rapid Recovery Agent installed on each node, you can protect and restore supported VMs hosted on Hyper-V cluster-shared volumes (CSVs) installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.
In addition, Rapid Recovery release 6.1 and later supports virtual export to Hyper-V CSVs installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016. For information about supported hypervisors, see Hypervisor requirements.
Rapid Recovery only supports protection and restore of CSV volumes running on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The following table depicts current Rapid Recovery support for cluster-shared volumes.
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1 Protect includes protection, replication, rollup, mount, and archiving.
2 Restore includes file-level restore, volume-level restore, bare metal restore, and virtual export.
3 Restore includes file-level restore, volume-level restore, and bare metal restore.
Before installing Rapid Recovery release 6.1, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements. For additional guidance for sizing your hardware, software, memory, storage, and network requirements, see knowledge base article 185962, “Sizing Rapid Recovery Deployments.”
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Windows installation and support notes:
1 The boot CD supports bare metal restore, but does not support driver injection.
2 VM export to Azure works only for x64 editions of operating systems listed.
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Linux installation and support notes:
1 B-tree file system (BTRFS) is supported only on operating systems with kernel version 4.2. or later. Compliant operating systems currently include Ubuntu versions 14.04.4 with service pack 4 or later, and versions 15.10 or later. SLES versions 12 and 12 SP1 have older kernel versions, and so Rapid Recovery does not support their implementations of BTRFS.
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