When you install these software offerings, no specific instructions are needed to protect
Microsoft Exchange Server workloads that are running in a
VMware ESXi virtual guest machine. Install and configure Data Protection for VMware before you install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.
About this task
Follow the installation and configuration instructions that are provided with each software
package.
If you install Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
before Data Protection for VMware, you cannot specify the VMware
datacenter node in the Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
configuration wizard because the field is disabled.
The following configuration tasks are
specific to the configuration options that you must protect Microsoft Exchange Server workloads that are running in a VMware ESXi virtual guest machine.
These options can be set after you complete the initial configuration.
Before you configure to
protect Microsoft Exchange Server workloads that run in a
VMware ESXi virtual guest machine, complete this checklist:
- Verify that Microsoft Exchange Server databases and
mailboxes are hosted on VMware virtual disks.
- Verify that no data is hosted on raw device mapped (RDM) disks in physical compatibility mode,
independent disks, or on disks that are attached directly to the guest through in-guest iSCSI.
What to do next
The information that follows might not exactly apply to your environment. You can adjust
the configuration for your environment. The following details describe the scenario that is used:
- A single Microsoft Exchange Server database on a
virtual machine that is named vm_exc10 must be recovered.
- Virtual machine vm_exc10 is protected by Data Protection for VMware by using the node name
datacenter10. This node name in the Tivoli® Storage
Manager server represents the vSphere datacenter. The data
mover nodes are called datamover10 and datamover20.
- The virtual machine guest is configured with the virtual machine display name of
vm_exc10 and the Microsoft
Windows host name is EXC10.
- Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server is installed in the guest
and is configured to the Tivoli Storage
Manager server to use
node name exc10_EXC.
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager client is configured as the VSS
requestor node and is using the node name EXC10_VSS.
The following list summarizes the scenario:
- Machine name
- EXC10
- VSS requestor node name
- EXC10_VSS
- Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server node name
- EXC10_EXC
- Virtual machine
- vm_exc10
- Data mover node names
- datamover10 and datamover20
- Datacenter node name
- datacenter10
- VM file space
- \VMFULL-vm_exc10