Hello everyone,

We've been doing some vStorage VMware backups thru the SAN for our test
environment. We haven't started that on the production environment  yet...

As you may know, in order to start doing SAN backups using the vStorage
API, your backup host needs access to all the LUNs (VMFS volumes) that
all your hypervisors use.  I've been reading a couple of posts - on the
symantec forums-  regarding possible VMFS  corruption while you present
these to your Windows media-server (backup host).   Something along the
line like "Windows will try to automount them and eventually corrupt the
VMFS volume" and that in order to avoid this you must first run diskpart
and run:

automount disable
automount scrub

Our backup-host is a Windows 2003 server and I indeed presented all the
test LUNs to the Windows server and I had no problems with the LUNs
(without running any of the above commands).

Have any of you run into a problem like this? Is this an OS' specific
issue (perhaps with Win2008?)?

Thanks in advance,
Jorge
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