When you configured the RM application set, did you select the SQL Database or did you select the VMFS Datastore?
I think that you selected VMFS Datastore. If that's the case then VDI is not being used (answer to question 2). Instead, all VMs inside the VMFS datastore that you chose in RM get quiesced by using VMware Tools (answer to question 3). VMware Tools flush from memory to disk. This is not appliacation consistency per say (answer to question 4) since it is not using VDI nor VSS and instead you can call this OS consistency since VMWare Tools are being used on each VM.
DennyHopkins
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November 15th, 2011 11:00
I am also interested in the answer to this and wondering how the solution changes if you had chosen to place the Databases on RDM vs VMDK disk.
etaljic81
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November 15th, 2011 12:00
When you configured the RM application set, did you select the SQL Database or did you select the VMFS Datastore?
I think that you selected VMFS Datastore. If that's the case then VDI is not being used (answer to question 2). Instead, all VMs inside the VMFS datastore that you chose in RM get quiesced by using VMware Tools (answer to question 3). VMware Tools flush from memory to disk. This is not appliacation consistency per say (answer to question 4) since it is not using VDI nor VSS and instead you can call this OS consistency since VMWare Tools are being used on each VM.
Hope this helps.