Hello there,
I am searching some articles, but since I found different information regarding this topic, I decided to started my own thread to check if someone else faced a similar issue.
For some political and business choices that I can't explain any further, we have a VM running on ESX 6.0 Update 1 that has a 8TB VMDK. We're planning to take a complete VM backup using HP Data Protector, but me question is: is that allowed? Can I take a snapshot (which is what the DP is doing in the background) of disks that large? Could this action possibly leads to a VMDK corruption or problems of any sort? And, if not, is there a way to estimate the snapshot size that this VM needs to allocate on the LUN to create the backup (I mean, i know that this is different for each type of VM, but is there a formula or a way to measure and estimate this?)
Thanks!