Altaro Backup / redirected I/O with CSV

[raymondjt]

Hi,
we have a 2node Win2008R2SP1 failover cluster, which have CSVs on two Starwind v6 HA over 4x1Gbps iSCSI connection.
Making Hyper-V backups with Altaro make a VSS snapshot and takes quit a long time (up to 4hr) for one vm.

What is wrong?
What about your VSS provider software? It is not installed yet.

Would the VSS provider software reduce the time / load / impact of backups?

If yes, can we install the VSS provider software without any big changes on the HA environment?

THX
Raymond

[anton (staff)]

This is normal with V6. V8 will have updated hardware VSS for both LSFS and FLAT (ex-Image Files) so there would be no redirected mode with any backup: VEEAM, Altaro, Symantec etc. Please stay tuned!

[mahuan1688]

Then officially released version of V8 Is it right? No backup part, or the testing stage did not provide. Thank you.

[anton (staff)]

VM backup engine was licensed and would be replaced with the other vendor in V8.