Our organization has 4 MB servers in a DAG with 9 Mailbox Databases. Each server in the DAG carries a no lag copy of every database. We have them balanced between the servers and can run on as few as 2 MB servers when/if we have to. Recently we acquired VEEAM as a backup solution and would like to transition our Exchange backups over to, but we have a problem. The DAG drives on the 4 virtual MB servers are all Physical compatible RDMs. For VEEAM we need to convert the drives to Virtual RDMs to get the backups to work. I have read on VMware site that all we have to do is shutdown the VM, remove the virtual disk, re-add it as Virtual and we should be good to go. Question I have is, has anyone tried this before?  Will it have any effect on the MB server when we bring it back up, or should it just keep right on going where we left off? Any input would be appreciated. I can offload the Databases to a different server obviously while the MB server is down, but I didn't want to waste my time if it's not going to see the data when I bring it back up.

• Edited by trith 20 hours 54 minutes ago typo

Hi,

I'm not familar with this backup tool VEEAM. But if you need to shutdown Mailbox server when you backup database, you need to move active database to another server firstly.

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