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I think your solution is here : <a href="http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/364" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/364</a><br />

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This sounds like what I have- don't see where the data would be inside the VM's which is required for Veeam backup solution
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These are the Clustering Guides<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf</a><br />
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<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004617" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004617</a><br />
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Creating a Cluster in Windows Server 2008<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/01/18/7151154.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/01/18/7151154.aspx</a>
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I don't know how the veeam backup solution works, but keep in mind that if it's based on the snapshotting method of vmware, you can't backup your clusters.<br />
This because you can't snapshot shared virtual disks (clusters).<br />
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I suggest you to do backup and restore volumes as you can not do disk.
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I know how to create a MS Cluster.. &nbsp;Let me see if I can bring some clarification to this. &nbsp;I am currently using EVault/i365 for backups. &nbsp;I am not pleased with the solution. &nbsp;I saw Veeam at a conference and downloaded a trial. &nbsp;During the process of testing Veeam i discovered that you could not have shared drives and back them up using Veeam. <br />
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During my questions trying to discover what others were doing all of the VMWare gurus began acting like I was crazy for not having all of my data inside my VM's already.<br />
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So now my question to all is how do you share drives or do clustering with your data inside a VM?<br />
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You can see the conversation here about having all the data inside VM's but it still looks to me like you can't cluster/share data that way.<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27312873/Backup-Replication-Solution-for-VMWare.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27312873/Backup-Replication-Solution-for-VMWare.html</a><br />
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I currently have a cluster setup between 2 vm's with the data mapped via shared drives on my SAN. &nbsp;I want to move to Veeam for my backup solution which will require all data to reside inside the VM's. &nbsp;My question is how do create a Microsoft Cluster with data residing inside a VM?
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I currently have a cluster setup between 2 vm's with the data mapped via shared drives on my SAN.  I want to move to Veeam for my backup solution which will require all data to reside inside the VM's.  My question is how do create a Microsoft Cluster with data residing inside a VM?

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